THISISPOPBABY moves between dance party and theatrical spaces, and brings a queer sensibility to both. Their approach to art and politics is that pleasure is also political, and political engagement can be a pleasure. RIOT is a play on words: they balance between a riotous good time and a furious insistence on the necessity of social change.
Use this study guide to learn more about the troupe, contemporary Irish politics, and the “radical possibilities of pleasure” — and get inspired to take the riotous energy out of the theatre and into the streets, with some NYC-based activist groups!
Read about THISISPOPBABY and get a glimpse of RIOT on their website. Plus, read a review of a past production of the show in the Irish Times!
RELATED EVENTS
RELATED EVENTS
GET INTO IT
GET INTO IT
The Politics of Queer Performance
The Politics of Queer Performance
- Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, and AJ Lewis, “Reclaiming Our Lineage: Organized Queer, Gender-Nonconforming, and Transgender Resistance to Police Violence,” in A New Queer Agenda, special issue of Scholar & Feminist Online, vol. 10.1-2, Fall 2011/Spring 2012.
- Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” “The Uses of the Erotic” and “The Uses of Anger” in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 1984).
- José Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York: New York University Press, 2009).
- Benjamin Heim Shepard, Queer Political Performance and Protest: Play, Pleasure and Social Movement (London: Routledge, 2009).
- Dean Spade, “Dress to Kill, Fight to Win,” in LTTR Vol. 1, September 2002.
- Fintan Walsh, Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland (2016)
Queer, Feminist, Irish
Queer, Feminist, Irish
- “Fetal Ireland: National Bodies and Political Agency,” Kathryn Conrad (2001)
- “Queer Treasons: Homosexuality and Irish National Identity,” Kathryn Conrad (2001)
- “Foucault, Bourdieu and the Field of Irish Sexuality,” Tom Inglis (1997)
- “Sexual identities, National identities: The politics of gay law reform in the republic of Ireland,” Richard Dunphy (1997)
- “Feminism and the Politics of Difference in Northern Ireland,” Adrian Little (2002)
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