Mangos with Chili: Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour Performance as Social Movement Building

Mangos with Chili (MWC) is a two-spirit, queer and trans people of color (2-QTPOC) performance arts cabaret based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This research focuses on MWC performance content and personal interviews with four of MWC’s artists: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Landa Lakes, Micha Cárdenas and Manish Vaidya. The author examines three aspects of MWC to consider: the economic context of precarity of cultural work; spirituality and healing in performance; and the politics of vulnerability and interdependence. By examining the challenges MWC faces and the methods MWC offers for social justice movement building, the author argues that MWC offers a politics and set of practices that hold difference affirmatively while leaving enough space to imagine and enact new worlds.

Author dc:creator

• Kai Yin Khoo, Anabel

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Driver, Susan D.

• Communication
• Gender studies
• Performing arts

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• Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10315/29886

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/29886