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New Episode: Defusing Queerphobia in the Classroom
In this episode, university arts educators share practical strategies for defusing homophobia and transphobia in the classroom while accounting for our increasingly polarized political realities across the U.S. Rather than combatting or fighting queerphobia, they present approaches they have used to keep students engaged in dialogue and promote inclusive, respectful classroom culture.
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Two-Part Episode: Making Monsters
Pedagogy in Process host Nicolas Shannon Savard is joined by Dr. Katya Vrtis and Kairos Looney to unpack the contemporary wave of anti-trans politics. And to talk about monsters. Bringing together performance studies with queer-/crip and critical race theories, the conversation serves as a space to theorize collaboratively, to process, to strategize modes of resistance.
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Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable Part 3: Where the Past Touches the Present
This episode is part 3 of the Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable series of conversations with theatre historians, artists, and educators.Pedagogy in Process host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: What discoveries arise through queer archival strategies focused on repair? What technologies or strategies do we use to confront…
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Roundtable Part 2: Queer Failure, Queer Possibility
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: How have the constraints of existing archives caused (invited? necessitated?) what Jack Halberstam calls “queer failure”? Where do we see queer possibility in the archive? Their conversation offers a range of queer interventions for scholars and students of performance and history…
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New Episode. Queer Praxis Roundtable, Pt. 1: Disrupting White Supremacy in Theatre History
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard invites queer theatre artist-educator-historians Janet Werther, Kelli Crump, Jordan Ealy, Victoria Lafave to dig into how we bring a queer eye to history in the classroom, what power and responsibility we have as queer artist-educators to disrupt white supremacy in the archive and our institutions and strategies for building solidarity.
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Conference panel-turned-podcast. Pedagogy in Process.
How do we queer the archive? Or the conference? How do we bend the format to fit people in the session rather than fitting ourselves into traditional formats and structures? One response to that was to turn our conference panel into a podcast.
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Podcast Episode: Making Space for Self-Authorship through Audio Description
One of my favorite things about working on Gender Euphoria, the Podcast, is getting to be in conversation with brilliant queer and gender nonconforming artists, activists, and educators. This time around I had the chance to bring together two people who I have had the privilege to learn from and introduce them to one another.…
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Podcast Episode: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy
Just released the latest episode of Gender Euphoria, the Podcast with HowlRound Theatre Commons! Making Space: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy With Guests J.C. Pankratz and Emmett Podgorski This episode is a series of reflective conversations with playwright J.C. Pankratz and actor Emmett Podgorski on our production process for JC’s new play Seahorse. The…
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Director’s Talk. Exploring Queer-Trans Intimacy, Disability Aesthetics, and Community Care in JC Pankratz’s Seahorse
In this director’s talk, CWRU Humanities in Leadership Learning Series postdoctoral scholar Nicolas Shannon Savard describes how feminist performance practice, queer theory, disability aesthetics and principles of community-engaged art making informed their approach to the design and the collaborative process in this spring’s production of Seahorse. The talk offers behind-the-scenes insight into how the cast and…
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Stream Seahorse on demand, May 10-31, 2023
A recording of the performance will be available to stream on demand May 10-31, 2023. General admission tickets are free or by a pay-what-you-will donation. All proceeds will go to volunteer-led, not-for-profit organizations that serve northeast Ohio’s transgender community. Your donation will support the work of: Register here to get tickets and access the show…