CAPITALISM TAKES a set of social relations for granted. Today we see a capitalist class that is global and highly centralized. We respond by pointing to other kinds of social relations (feminist, cooperative, decolonizing) and by connecting ways of resistance. We learn that redistributional struggles are also studies in contradiction.
The female body is not property. We assert this by not fashioning ourselves after an image that oppresses us. We assert this by forming relationships that are non-monogamous. We assert this by confronting intimate partner violence. We assert this by having children when and where we want to, or not at all.
My body is fragile. It has been damaged by exploitation, inquisition, and incursion.
Performance art has never taken the body for granted. It has sliced it and scraped it, exhausted it, kept it still for hours on end, torn out its hair and exposed it, but it has never shied away from questioning the place of bodies in oppression, resistance, and everyday life.
We circulate reproductive knowledge.
More than anyone, contemporary dancers have taught me how to unlearn the effects of capitalist work regimes on my body in inclusive, non-judgmental spaces.
Picking crab apples from a back-lane tree. Bread, a …
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