Performance Space New York’s Marathon Readings shares important, influential, and experimental work by women who have passed away, to collectively remember their words. Previous readings were: black looks: race and representation by bell hooks, Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker and DICTEE by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa, and Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid.
Readers: J Bob Alotta, Lisa Baltazar, Samiya Bashir, Marci Blackman, Kera Bolonik, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Ann Cammett, Ava Chin, Grace M Cho, Peter Cramer, Bridgett Davis, Lisa Duggan, Marta Elena Esquilin, Marcia Gallo, Ysabel Y Gonzalez, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Ada Gay Griffin, Rachel Harris, Briona Jones, Roz Lee, Tonia Poteat, Courtney Reid-Easton, Shellyne Rodriguez, Kate Rushin, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Bina Shariff, Evie Shockley, Pamela Sneed, laila stevens, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Karen Thompson, Linda Villarosa, Jack Waters, Jana Welch, Jacqueline Woodson, and LinYee Yuan.
Co-organized by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Sarah Schulman.