HEAVENLY BROWN BODY
first performed on July 11, 2014
Department of Columbia Arts Center, Washington DC, USA
performed four times in 2014
ANAZE IZQUIERDO
Marc Mosteirin
Lima, Peru
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HEAVENLY BROWN BODY
ANAZE IZQUIERDO
I show up, spill oil in the floor, take out my shoes and start having conversations with people about police brutality, queer community and POC. While I’m telling the audience my personal experiences in regards to these topics, I start slipping on the floor, interrupting the conversations by multiple falls while getting wet with the oil. After this I tell people I want to share a prayer from “the deepest part of herself.” I take off my pants, pull a paper out of my vagina and start reading it, getting louder and louder:
Litanies to my heavenly brown body
Blessed are the sissies
Blessed are the boi dykes
Blessed are the people of color my beloved kith and kin
Blessed are the trans
Blessed are the high femmes
Blessed are the sex workers
Blessed are the authentic
Blessed are the dis-identifiers
Blessed are the gender illusionists
Blessed are the non-normative
Blessed are the gender queers
Blessed are the disabled
Blessed are the hot fat girls
Blessed are the weirdo-queers
Blessed is the spectrum
Blessed is consent
Blessed is respect
Blessed are the beloved who I didn’t describe, I couldn’t describe, will learn to describe and respect and love.
Amen
People answer Amen, then i leave the space.