RT Article T1 Staging Activism: New York City Performing Artists as Cultural Workers JF Social justice VO 34 IS 1 SP 97 OP 116 A1 Goddard, Amy LA English YR 2007 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157341 AB Part of a special issue on the relationship between art, identity, and social justice. A study was conducted to explore the activism and cultural work of three New York City performing artists. Data were obtained from in-depth interviews with Imani Henry, who identifies as a queer, Caribbean, female-to-male transsexual; Susana Cook, a self-styled butch lesbian from Argentina; and Diyaa MilDred Gerestant, a Haitian-American queer performing artist. Findings revealed that each artist regards creating connections across lines of difference as a critical aim, and their cultural work functions as activism on a number of levels; they make use of participatory processes of audience engagement. Findings also revealed that these artists have exposed their own personal selves through performance in order to communicate their messages: each examines themes of race and ethnicity from their own perspective. Findings are discussed in detail. K1 Entertainers in literature K1 Artists K1 Artists in literature K1 Artists & community K1 Social Change K1 Social movements in art K1 Entertainers K1 Art K1 Performance art K1 Art & society