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Roma Feminist Practice: An annotated interview with Giuvlipen theatre artists Arhanghela, Mihaela Drăgan, Nicoleta Ghiță, and Zita Moldovan
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Abstract: Giuvlipen is the first Roma feminist theater group and multidisciplinary collective in Romania, where the institution of Roma slavery lasted almost 500 years. The discussion among its two founding members (Mihaela Drăgan and Zita Moldovan) and two collaborators (Arhanghela and Nicoleta Ghiță) lays out the historical and present context of racism, persecution, and discrimination, as well as Giuvlipen’s rationale for its Roma feminist approach inclusive of a variety of women. They explain how Giuvlipen employs an aesthetic of empathic dramaturgy, joyful music, and bold fashion as a tactic that reclaims their heritage to contest the present and reimagine the future. Giuvlipen’s Roma feminist theatre references feminist, queer, and BIPOC standpoints and artistic practices, adapts these international critical discourses and practices to resonate with the Roma context, and pioneers a unique type of intersectional feminist art.
Keywords: intersectionality, feminism, Roma theatre, Roma feminism, Giuvlipen.
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