Our streets: queer & Black bodies in movement and protest

The video touches upon the concept of choreopolitics - a theory of body and movements, specifically in the context of protesting for Black lives. It has two voices, two writers, Grey & Zane. Grey Armstrong shares his experience as a Black trans man in the USA, focusing on one encounter with the police. Zane McNeill criticizes the insufficient engagement of the LGBTQIA+ community with antiracism, and talks about his responsibility as a white trans person to be in the streets, opposing white supremacy.
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Grey Armstrong is a writer and the founder of the popular blog and website Obsidian Tea. The site explores themes of the Black experience and culture, Anti-racism Praxis, developing cultural competency, and the evolving relationship between Black and white Americans in the United States from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade onwards. You can follow his work at www.Obsidiantea.com
Z. Zane McNeill is an independent scholar-activist currently working on anthologies concerning choreopolitics and socially engaged art. His co-edited collection, Queer and Trans Voices: Achieving Liberation Through Consistent Anti-Oppression was recently published by Sanctuary Publishers and his forthcoming collection, Y’all Means All: The Erupting Voices Queering Appalachia, will be released Fall 2021.
Credits:
Writer and Narrator: Grey Armstrong
Writer and Narrator: Z. Zane McNeill
Director, Editor, and Animator: Aron Nor
Art Director, Illustrator, and Frame by Frame Animator: Mina Mimosa
Assistant Director: M. Martelli
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References:
Foellmer, S. (2016). Choreography as a Medium of Protest. Dance Research Journal, 48(3), 58-69. doi:10.1017/S0149767716000395
The protest in Ferguson - thefeministwir...
Choreography and gesture in protests - www.nytimes.co...
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These days might be a time for respite from the struggle, as the policeman who killed George Floyd - almost one year later - was found guilty. Time to breathe. To gather strength. Racism, white supremacy and police violence are still here and dominant - not just in the US, but all around the world. Protesting works. And we must keep fighting, until our systems stop putting Black and other people of color at risk