Blacktino Queer Performance

"Blacktino Queer Performance is brimming with funk and urgency. It gives readers fresh ways to teach, study, and enact the many ways racialized styles, accents, genders, and gestures move in the world and on the stage. As a critical category of inquiry, blacktino gets jiggy with categories of race, region, and ethnic identity, and the result is a train of critical ideas that will push readers out of their silos into new imaginative encounters."  - Juana María Rodríguez, author of Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

"Blacktino Queer Performance arrives as an essential volume for all concerned with performance and its theory. Its pages bristle with smart and unexpected discoveries arranged with fresh expertise by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera. Queer blacktino lives have found worthy theatrical representation in this collection."  - Thomas F. DeFrantz, coeditor of Black Performance Theory

"[T]he Blacktino works as presented in this collection rankle and disturb, taunt and tantalize, ripping back skin and exposing raw nerves like no other." - Timothy Francis Barry, Brooklyn Rail

"A groundbreaking project...." - Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, TSQ

"It is not only that all these voices matter and deserve to be heard but also (and even more so) that, when these voices are heard together in the space of the same printed text, they mean more—and differently—than they would in the small theatre spaces where they were originally performed." - Shane Breaux, Theatre Survey

"In bringing together the performance scripts of primarily Black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists working in the United States, the book offers a survey of some of the most arresting work in this rising field." - Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez, Chiricú Journal

“This collection is a call for more collections that empower, (re)member, and advocate for queer people of color. It is an excellent choice for artists, activists, and academics interested in the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and sexuality (and more); cultural performances of power and resistance; and the potentiality of queer of color worldmaking.” - Robert Gutierrez-Perez, Text and Performance Quarterly

“Blacktino Queer Performance is an essential read for scholars of performance, queer theory, and critical race studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach provides multiple perspectives through intertextual and intercultural critique.” - Sarah Stefana Smith, CAA Reviews

"Blacktino Queer Performance serves as a timely consideration of the work of contemporary artists identifying as interracial and as queer, and as an interdisciplinary, lyrical imagining of the very notion of intersectionality." - Nevarez Encinias, TDR: The Drama Review

“Blacktino decolonizes queer performance, emancipating it from the homonormative whiteness of mainstream queer theory. The work of Johnson and Rivera-Servera interjects a critical intervention into the fields of racial and queer performance studies…. Johnson and Rivera-Servera offer an in-depth cultural critique that engages a vast array of artists and scholars, and they challenge their readers to seek out queer performance outside of the pages of their volume.”