Our Liberation! Theatre

We are currently focused on developing “Our Liberation!” as a workshop that we can present at school and community organizations.  This project uses Theater of the Oppressed techniques in which the audience and presenters work together to strategize and disrupt incidents of oppression.  Theater of the Oppressed calls on participants to re-imagine the roles of actor and spectator, merging them together to create spect-actors.  With the increased attention being paid to peer abuse and harassment and how it contributes to increased rates of suicide among LGBTQ youth, we believe that our Theater of the Oppressed workshop has great potential to empower our audiences to intervene and stop oppressive and violent behavior among peers that has its roots in racism, homophobia, and other oppressive systems.