“I’m Not Talking to You” “You Don’t Have to!” Trans/scripting the Bland-Encinia Case

Authors

Melisa Cahnmann-TaylorFollow

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Article

Abstract

This manifesto and trans/scription is a response to the specific violence that occurred between a Black female driver (Sandra Bland) and a white police officer (Brian Encinia) in Texas in July 2015 which resulted in Bland’s death. As an urgent #BlackLivesMatter concern, the author considers post-structuralist theories of identity and trans/scription as resources to inform identity performance and trans/imagination with more opportunities for life-giving rather than life-taking results. The author provides a series of questions and challenges to Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners for trans/scripting and trans/imaging moments of racial discrimination and terrorism for long-term rehearsal into, through, and beyond racially motivated violence toward rehumanization.

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Recommended Citation

Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa (2017) "“I’m Not Talking to You” “You Don’t Have to!” Trans/scripting the Bland-Encinia Case," Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal: Vol. 2, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ptoj/vol2/iss1/2