This season of MASKulinity is all about Relationships and Resistance, and we're starting with resistance.

What does resistance look like as performance art—more specifically, theater?

Your favorite literati doy, Remoy George Philip thee First's, latest production, Performing the Revolution, explores this question in a four-part series.We're dropping the first episode in our feed to set the tone for the season. This series is a powerful reminder that community and perseverance are requirements for social change, and that joy and play can be part of resistance. Samantha first interviews journalist and documentarian Ida Hardin, coproducer on the podcast, to get some between-the-lines questions answered. Themes of resilience, grief, and liberation echo through this first episode set in New Delhi.

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Performing the Revolution, "in India"

Meet Jana Natya Manch, a.k.a. JANAM, one of India's storied street theatre companies. We follow their journey from one of their most crucial, catalyzing and tragic moments in the 1980's, all the way through to the work they make today. 

Then where can you listen to Performing the Revolution:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4klSwQSuzly63HdKfGt1ce

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/performing-the-revolution/id1765455380

Everywhere: https://pod.link/1765455380

Referenced on this episode:

• Some background on Jana Natya Manch (JANAM Theatre)
• Safdar Hashmi’s leadership at JANAM 
• Performing the Revolution in Conversation

COMPANION PIECES:

• Performing the Revolution team member Beto O’Byrne stopped by to talk wrestling as escapist for men in The Wrestling Episode 
• Robert and Mabel Williams understood that sometimes resistance is violent. Kellie Carter Jackson told us their story in The Resistance Episode
• Organizations resisting MASKulinity
• A short message from Moloyashree Hashmi