Even if verbally inspired to take care of ourselves, our present dance lifestyle expects us to accomplish in the least expenses. Sometimes the expectation is actually a white elephant, unspoken but suffocatingly current; other times, It is really an off-the-record dialogue that de-prioritizes a young dancer's clinical charges to, alternatively, tar… Read More

In Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall Nadia Ellis explicates the tradition of merged homophobia and unabashed queerness in just Jamaican dancehall tradition. She details the particular relevance of the phrase "out and negative" to Jamaica when she writes, “This phrase is of queer hermeneutical risk in Jamaic… Read More