QUEERING: Artist Rosa Johan Uddoh and Poet Ebun Sodipo comment on gender as a colonial tool

The verb form of the word queer, 'Queering' looks for places where gender, sexuality, masculinity and femininity can be challenged and questioned. Our immersive live stream, 12 and 13 July 2018, saw individuals from all walks use their art, talent and physicality to both show and tell us what the term means to them.
‘Non binary people from Africa were forcibly gendered by colonialists, therefore we tried to understand how gender was used as a colonial tool.’ In this tragic-comedy performance, Rosa Johan and Ebun Sodipo explore how Africans had their gender forcibly removed as part of the enslavement process as they crossed the Atlantic. Given that slaves were considered non-gendered, the conversational performance attempts to question how this might affect our own thinking about gender fluidity and race today.

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