Queer Tales: Women's Lives Reenacted Pay as you can

In these complex modern days, we still find ourselves in the urgency of routes that keep battling gender inequality or discrimination, and that contribute to the “better world” we have hoped to live in. Academia and cultural production may have progressed over the last 40 years on how the woman's self is embraced, through multiple works that “break the constraints of the masculine tradition” and where “the personal truly becomes the political” (Lipton & Mackinlay, 2017, 39 to 40). However, it is still important to ask ourselves to what extent this has been expanded to less or non-academic spaces and collective practices, or to communities where gender is not the only source of tension.

Inspired by feminist and queer efforts, Queer Tales will showcase stories that interrogate dominant narratives on women and their diversity.

Led by the Colombian actor, producer and acting tutor, Silvia Santamaría, this event offers to the general public a series of short performances that focus on women's queer experiences and that have been informed by the community of St Andrews. The event will conclude with a question and answer session with Santamaría and the performers, hosted by Latin American scholar, Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos, Dissertations Convener in the School of Modern Languages.

The event will be accompanied by a small exhibition comprising selected photographs from preliminary workshop sessions, blog excerpts and testimonials by students, staff and community members. The venue for the exhibition is still to be confirmed.