#bodiesontheline

[trascapades]

✊🏿💃🏾🕺🏿⚖🎙#ArtIsAWeapon #DancingIsFreedom @kut_the_rug "KINETIC RESISTANCE: Street Dance As Protest!" community conversation today, August 12, 5:30 PM EST via ZOOM (RSVP via the link in their BIO) Reposted from @kut_the_rug ⁠- We are hosting a conversation about #StreetDance as a physical, existential, collective and spiritual form of #resistance. A few of the ideas and issues on deck are: ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ * How does street dance change in the context of a protest?⁠⠀ * Is Street Dance interpreted differently when featured in an NYTimes article v.s. included in a music video or PUMA commercial? ⁠⠀ * Does press attention amplify the surveillance of black & brown dancing bodies? ⁠⠀ Hosted by #KutTheRug founders @polite.brian & @lafotographeuse, presented by @cueart; moderated by @goldenladynay; featured panelists @shamellbell @imanikai77 @eclecticother @crikitdidit #kuttheruginstitute #kineticresistance #danceuprising #BlackDance #blackdancepolitics #streetdanceasprotest #dancingresistance #streetdancenaction #bodiesontheline #soulfuluprising #streetdancescholarship #hiphopdancestudies #protestinmotion #movementprotest #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/CDy-aX1gJco/?igshid=1guikr6yzb5ee

[hannahfons]

Encyclopedia of Badassery - Queer Pride Edition: Here we see DC police dragging an ACT UP protester during a 1999 demonstration. ACT UP was founded in 1987 to do direct action in support of folx living (and dying) with HIV/AIDS. Activists chained themselves to the VIP balcony at the NYSE to protest the exorbitant cost of AIDS drugs; they shut down the FDA for an entire day; they forced the CDC to acknowledge the presence of HIV/AIDS in women; moreover, they forced a complacent, homophobic nation to face up to the reality and scope of the plague. #encyclopediaofbadassery #actup #silenceequalsdeath #bodiesontheline #queerpride #theplagueyears