Tag: ethnicity
Ms. and They: Coming to Terms with Terms of Identity
Throughout rehearsals, she constantly defaulted to “he,” followed by stuttering apologies. Aidan always said, “That’s OK.” She always felt terrible anyway.
Making a Frame: How I Found an Augusto Boal Book in...
Looking back on more than three decades creating community and drama around the world using the techniques of the Theatre of the Oppressed.
A Powerful Exhibit on Migration Is Not Just ‘Politics’
"It’s kind of an illusion if a cultural institution thinks they’re neutral," goes the quote. And yet.
Native Playwright and Others Fear a New Trail of Tears
With the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) under right-wing attack, Mary Kathryn Nagle sounds the alarm.
Who Are The 1491s and What Is ‘Between Two Knees’?
An intertribal, Indigenous sketch-comedy troupe exposes a deep cultural scar.
Native Voices: Finding Refuge on a Hill in Los Angeles
They don’t just nurture plays. They nurture the Native artists who flock to the refuge on the hill.
How My Son Found Cultural Identity — Hidden in the Family...
The lesson? Nobody owns the answer to anyone else’s racial identity.
Being and Becoming: Black, Gay, Creative — and Politically Engaged
How I elevated my social and political voice through voice training.
Who’s That Goy Speaking Yiddish?
Shane Baker's muse -- from the crown of his keppie to the ends of his kishkes.
Punishing Faith Fennidy For Her Black Hair Is What’s Unnatural
Discrimination against Black hair is a modern way of keeping us out of spaces we had to fight, march and protest our way inside.
How Kelly Jenrette and Melvin Jackson Jr. Made Emmy History
Meet the first black couple to both be nominated for Emmys in the same year.
Pointed Political Parallels in an Off-Broadway ‘Henry VI’
In Stephen Brown-Fried’s elegant new two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy for Off-Broadway's National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), we don’t have to...
Bildungsroman, Baby! Lisa Locascio’s Debut Novel, ‘Open Me’
An erotic first novel about a young American abroad gradually grows more eloquent.
Marcus Gardley Constructs ‘The House That Will Not Stand’
A spunky, engaging, sardonic story of women making their way in a society framed by -- who else? -- men.
A White American in the Arts Looks at Diversity Worldwide
Learning from cultural equity work in Finland and Australia. Plus, a DEI resource list.
Paul Rucker Makes Colorful Klan Robes to Fight Racism
The activist-artist takes a historical, artifact-based view of American racism yesterday and today.
The 2018 National Summit and Expo on Diversity in the Arts
A conference to tackle the difficult questions. Here's what you can expect.
20 Change-Making US Artists You Should Track During 2018
They are global spitfires -- artists making a difference -- and they are producing hope.
On Erasing One’s Heritage and the Myth of Race in America
Race is the opposite of what we were always told. It can be distorted to keep people isolated.
We’re All Complicit: I Was a Reckless Young Woman, Too
Things aren’t always black and white, and that woman will figure it out.
RIP RGB, RIP GOP, RIP USA
None of the second-rate white men currently on the Supreme Court will receive the honors given to RBG when they finally die.
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Herman Cain (and Republicans Unable)
And then there was Jerry Falwell, Jr., with his open pants, evangelical FUPA and his hands veering into prime side-boob territory with -- hey, doesn't she have a name?
