Cojones - Ashley McQueen

Fear is a big topic to tackle, and one that comes up a LOT in discussions with performing artists and artmakers. Ashley McQueen is the poster child for Political Artivism - she creates tremendous, disruptive, socially conscious, subversive work that allows the performer to be powerful, vulnerable, beautiful, and grotesque within the same piece. How does she tackle her fear, and how does she find her strength to perform such politically charged work in today's political climate? Listen to find...

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The conversation begins at the intersection of performing art and political activism: performing artists discuss topics ranging from body autonomy (or lack thereof) and commodification to the consequences of performing politcal art and how we create it, and how, in this time of divisiveness, we can mobilize as individuals, audiences, and a cooperative enterprise to effect change.