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Roma Feminist & Queer Perspectives: Mihaela Drăgan

Mihaela Drăgan's talk 'Roma feminist and queer theatre between marginality and the fight against stereotyping' was part of the two-day event 'Roma Feminist & Queer Perspectives: Performance, Scholarship, Activism' with multidisciplinary artist Mihaela Drăgan, and scholars and activists Dr Lucie Fremlova and Dr Angela Kóczé. The event is part of the wider Techne 'Queer Feminist Currents' series. “In each show, we seek to reclaim the art, history and cultural identity of Roma, through stories told by us, Roma actresses.” - Giuvlipen Mihaela Drăgan presented Giuvlipen, the Roma feminist theatre company from Romania, founded in 2015 by a group of Roma actresses with the purpose of diversifying the theatre movement in Romania – which unfortunately is quite homogenous. The company focuses on Roma women and queer people and makes room for topics that discuss gender from an intersectional perspective. Through theatre performances and other cultural acts, Giuvlipen covers the Roma theatre discourse and practice as it developed in parallel to the escalation of racism and the acute stereotyping of Roma women. Drăgan examined the landscape of Roma artists, and the institutional framework that neglects Roma theatre and that has laid the ground for creating an independent company. She discussed her artistic practice as an actress, playwright and organiser of Giuvlipen’s performances, which talk about (among others): the hyper-sexualization of Roma women by non-Roma men, sexuality and gender issues in Roma communities, power abuses in theatre and film, and Roma Futurism (science-fictional narratives about a safe future led and controlled by Roma women). ‘Roma Feminist & Queer Perspectives: Performance, Scholarship, Activism’ was led by Dr Ioana Szeman and co-organised with Giulia Casalini, Clare Daly, Lena Fingu-Gharbi (University of Roehampton, UK). It was part of the Techne Conflux series ‘Queer Feminist Currents’, a two-year collaboration amongst researchers at the University of Roehampton and Royal Holloway, University of London. A series of research events are designed to provide a framework for interrogating key points of convergence and tension in contemporary queer, intersectional feminist and gender studies, decolonial critique, as well as theory and practice as interrelated. More information and documentation of previous events can be found at: https://queerfeministcurrents.wordpre...