Staging social justice: collaborating to create activist theatre

Introduction / Norma Bowles

Devising Text: Collaborative Decision Making. Teaching without Lecturing: A Lesson in (Re)Writing History / Flint

Brief Encounters between Disciplines and Cultures: An Analysis of the Dramaturgical Quilting Bee / Carly Halse

Are You an Inmate? Collective Decision Making in the Development of If Yes, Please Explain / Megan Hanley

Writing Conflict Out of Schools / Cristina Pippa

Marketing the Revolution: Aesthetics and Impact of Activist Theatre. Moving beyond the Comfort Zone: The Quest for Theatre for Social Justice Impact / David Kaye

Inspiring Change and Action: Measuring the Impact of Theatre for Social Justice / Susan V. Iverson

Sympathy vs. Stigma: Writing the "Victim" / Daniel-Raymond Nadon

Do Not Try This at Home / Michael Ellison

A Few More Thoughts about Aesthetics / Norma Bowles

Community and Coalition Building: Reaching Beyond the Choir. Creating Space for Intergenerational LGBT Community and Movement Building / Diane Finnerty

What Comes Next? A Guide to Organizing, Activating, and Rallying the College Campus / Amanda Dunne Acevedo and Lindsey Barlag Thornton

Rehearsing for Dialogue: Facilitation Training and Miami University's A More Perfect Union / Ann Elizabeth Armstrong

Pushing without Shoving: Ethics of and Emphasis on Target Participation in TSJ Institutes / Bryan C. Moore

We Are Who We Are: Theatre to Confront Homophobia and Transform Education into Social Praxis / Tracey Calhoun

Creating a Safe Space and a Great Show. It's Safe to Say / Bernardo Solano and Paula Weston Solano

Pronouns, Play Building, and the Principal: Negotiating Multiple Sites of Activism in a Youth-Focused Theatre for Social Justice Project / Xanthia Angel Walker

Creativity or Carnage: An International Theatre for Social Justice Project / Selina Busby and Catherine McNamara

Adapt the Space! Working with People of Diverse Abilities / Kathleen Juhl and Lindsey Smith

The Many Players: Perspectives on Diverse Project Roles and Responsibilities. Ripples over the Great Barrier / Rod Ainsworth and Jude Pippen

Voicing Your Gender, Gendering Your Voice / Rebecca M. Root

Psychological Reflections on an LGBTQI Theatre for Social Justice Project / Erasmo Tacconelli

Forum Theatre and the Power of "Yes, and-" / Jessy Ardern

By Hook or by Crook! Luring the Oppressor into the Lair / Daniel-Raymond Nadon

A Transformative? and Empowering? Experience. The Wizdom of Us: Reconsidering Identities and Affinities through Theatre for Social Justice / Brooke Kiener

Wade in the Water / Laura Reed Goodson

True-to-the-Course: The Learning Curve of a New Teaching Artist / Natalya Brusilovsky

Bricks and Stones: Bashing Back with a Fistful of Words / Crystal Grills with Flint

A Few More Thoughts about Transformation / Norma Bowles.