Amy Mihyang Ginther is an assistant professor in the Department of Performance, Play & Design at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword: navigating liberation: a conversation between friends

Nicole Brewer and Walton Wilson

Introduction: why this book now?

Amy Mihyang Ginther

PART I

Distilling/grounding/performing identities

1 Black queer autoethnographies: tools for equitable teaching and learning in predominantly white institutions

Gregory King

2 Societal othering of Asian Americans and its perpetuation through casting

Joy Lanceta Coronel

3 Embodying racial consciousness: white allyship as given circumstance and objective for the casting and coaching of scenework

Rachel E. Blackburn

PART II

Embodying disruption/abstention/resistance

4 I'mma do me: code-switch resistance as collective liberation in voice and speech classes

Alicia Richardson

5 The erotic of abstinence: refusing the white-possessive and embracing settler abstinence in performance pedagogy

Maria Teresa Houar

6 Nepantla: lingering in-between to embody our voice

Sayda Trujillo

PART III

Traveling across time/space/language

7 Representation matters: the why and how of decolonizing Stanislavski actor training

Alison Nicole Vasquez

8 Empowering the somatically othered actor through multilingual improvisation in training

Kristine Landon-Smith and Chris Hay

9 The possibilities of paradox: decolonial Shakespeare process in practice

Amy Mihyang Ginther

PART IV

Transforming across/through/around disciplinarity

10 A time of protest: exploring activism and acting through Hip-Hop Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Daphnie Sicre

11 Whose body is dis: taksu, ase, Black queer intersections, and the awakening of the actor's spiritual practice

Budi Miller

12 Stigmata: biography of an Arab female body in pain

Maiada Aboud

Afterword: morning rain, parting clouds, and what is to come

Amy Mihyang Ginther and Celia Mercedes Espinosa

Index