Girls, Performance, and Activism: Demanding to be Heard

Cover
Half Title
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	My Journey
	1 – “Under Construction”: Girls, Performance, and Activism
	2 – “This is not a Safe Space”: Principles of Theatermaking With Girls
	3 – “Real Im(PERFECT)ions”: Performing Confidence, Expressing Agency
	4 – “Held Momentarily”: for an Audience of One … Plus
	5 – “Shut Up and Listen!”: Performance in Public Spaces
	6 – “Finally Someone Hears us”: Considering Our Audiences
	Conclusion – Ripples of Change
	Notes
1 “Under Construction”: Girls, Performance, and Activism
	Part I: Surveying the Field
		Girls’ Studies
	Girls’ Activism
	Girls and Performance
	Girls Enacting Theater for Change
	Notes
2 “This Is Not a Safe Space”: Principles of Theatermaking With Girls
	A Proposed Framework for Facilitators, Educators, Activists, and Mentors
	Principle # 1: Negotiating Intergenerational Power
	Principle #2: Operating With Intersectional, Antiracist and Feminist Lenses as the White Facilitator of Mostly Black and ...
		Actively Dismantling White Supremacy Culture
	Principle #3: Making the Highest Quality, Culturally Responsive Theater
	Principle #4: Educating Through Critical Thinking and Liberatory Pedagogy Practices
	Principle #5: Practicing a Trauma-Informed Process
	Principle #6: “Saying it How it is”: On the Rejection of Censorship
	Principle #7: Embracing Pleasure, Joy, Humor, and Play
	Notes
3 “Real Im(PERFECT)ions”: Performing Confidence, Expressing Agency
	“Teenage Girls Have No Self-Esteem”
	“Beautiful and …”
	“Sexy Or Sexualized?”
	(Miss)empowered
	Gendered Bodies in Performance
	Lily’s Story – “Thirsty”
	Confidence as Agency
	Notes
4 “Held Momentarily”: For an Audience of One … Plus
	Isabella: “If Mom Only Knew”
	Diamond: “I Need to Perform Him Out of Me”
	Zahriya: “Sorry. I’m Sorry.”
	Kuenique: “Mom. I Need a Listener. I Need You”
	Marlena: “Daddy’s Girl”
	Ethics of the “Hot Seat”
	Notes
5 “Shut Up and Listen!”: Performance in Public Spaces
	Taking It to the Streets (And the Sidewalks and the Parks)
	Taking Over Parks to Reclaim Public Spaces
	Slutwalk and Pussy Hats: Reclaiming Violent Language Through Public Visibility
	“This Is Not a Safe Space”: Performing in the Streets
	TikTok as a Public Commons
	Note
6 “Finally Someone Hears us”: Considering Our Audiences
	“Real Men Show Their Emotions”: an Audience of Boys
	A Global Audience: Girls “Take Over” the United Nations
	Performing for the Media: Theater as a Campaign Tactic
	Putting the Audience in a Box: Performances On Zoom
	Performing Truth to Power
	Notes
Conclusion: Ripples of Change
	Theater and Change: Impacting the Audience
	Theater and Change: Impacting the Girls
	Where Is the Evidence?
		Where do we go from Here?
Works Cited
Organizations, Projects, and Resources
Index