Abstracts
Abstract
This article describes and reports on findings from a project called The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays (2021–2023). The overall goal of the project was to conduct archival research on moments of activism and care that have challenged cis-heteronormativity and racism and then share these moments through verbatim theatre scripts and performances. Working with an ethic of community care, and a lens that examines the intersections of cis-heteronormativity with other forms of structural discrimination (such as anti-Asian racism, anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, and settler colonialism), the project asked and answered the following research question: What kinds of activism and care in the 1970s and 1980s challenged cis-heteronormativity and racism in North America?
Keywords:
- verbatim theatre,
- queer,
- trans,
- activism,
- QTBIPOC,
- care,
- ethics
Résumé
Cet article décrit les résultats du projet intitulé : The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays (2021–2023). L’objectif global du projet était de mener une recherche archivistique sur des moments d’activisme et de soins ayant remis en question la cishétéronormativité et le racisme, puis de partager ces moments à travers des scripts et des performances de théâtre verbatim. En adoptant une éthique de soin communautaire et un regard porté sur les intersections entre la cishétéronormativité et d’autres formes de discrimination structurelle, le projet a posé et répondu à la question de recherche suivante : quels types d’activisme et de soins, dans les années 1970 et 1980, ont remis en question la cishétéronormativité et le racisme en Amérique du Nord?
Mots-clés :
- théâtre verbatim,
- queer,
- trans,
- activisme,
- QTBIPOC,
- soin,
- éthique
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