Play as act of queer resistance

This session will explore play as antidote to the effects of oppression on the body, mind, and spirit. Life under capitalism makes demands on our human forms. Certain ways of moving, speaking, even thinking come with rewards, while others result in sanctions. Participants will use games from Augusto Boal’s “Arsenal of the Theater of the Oppressed” to exercise movement beyond the daily grind and towards collective liberation.