Proposal Title
Re-claiming the patriarchal narrative: Using auto-ethnographic performance art as psycho-social commentary on womxn’s sexuality and mental health
Location
Room 2-078
Start Date
9-11-2018 2:00 PM
End Date
9-11-2018 3:00 PM
Presentation Type
Other
Abstract
Womxn’s sexuality and behaviors (in a broad sense) have been traditionally pathologized as mental health issues in the Western context. The performance art piece The Fainting Roomis an auto-ethnographic study, originally conceptualized and examined through a socio-historical lens where women were diagnosed with “female hysteria.” This arts-based research is an attempt to reclaim womxn’s sexual narratives/practices as normal and natural experiences from those originally constructed/defined by patriarchal psychological diagnostic criteria. This interactive performance/workshop will re-examine The Fainting Room through a critical, transnational lens in order to explore how internalized sexism and social constructs have shaped reality. Rather than pathologizing womxn’s sexuality as a monolithic experience that serves a heteronormative patriarchal agenda and perpetuate social-political sanctioned violence, we can reclaim a nonviolent narrative of true affirmative consent by celebrating and caring for diverse natural impulses and needs.
Re-claiming the patriarchal narrative: Using auto-ethnographic performance art as psycho-social commentary on womxn’s sexuality and mental health
Room 2-078
Womxn’s sexuality and behaviors (in a broad sense) have been traditionally pathologized as mental health issues in the Western context. The performance art piece The Fainting Roomis an auto-ethnographic study, originally conceptualized and examined through a socio-historical lens where women were diagnosed with “female hysteria.” This arts-based research is an attempt to reclaim womxn’s sexual narratives/practices as normal and natural experiences from those originally constructed/defined by patriarchal psychological diagnostic criteria. This interactive performance/workshop will re-examine The Fainting Room through a critical, transnational lens in order to explore how internalized sexism and social constructs have shaped reality. Rather than pathologizing womxn’s sexuality as a monolithic experience that serves a heteronormative patriarchal agenda and perpetuate social-political sanctioned violence, we can reclaim a nonviolent narrative of true affirmative consent by celebrating and caring for diverse natural impulses and needs.
