Bøger af Jasmine Lee-Jones

Being a woman is blood and gutsIt's intestineFuck florals and ballgownsIt's ballsIt's livers and kidneys and puke and mucusRipping and tearing and shreddingRed stain on linen beddingIt's sheddingJaz is in her second year at drama school. Jaz is tired of performing. Hence her conundrum. But when she stumbles across a piece of forgotten history - her life is changed forever.What does it mean to find yourself? Especially when it seems the world you live in is diametrically set against you doing just that?Set against the sprawling backdrop of urban London across centuries, curious is a frank, funny and moving excavation of the lives of two actresses who are young, Black, queer and trying to find out who they are. It is written and performed by Jasmine Lee-Jones, the winner of Evening Standard Award 2019 and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for her play seven methods of killing kylie jenner.

"At 21, Kylie Jenner becomes the youngest self-made billionaire ever" Obwohl Cleo, die eigentlich an ihrer Dissertation zum Thema Struktureller Rassismus schreibt, sich gerade von ihrer besten Freundin Kara und auch dem Rest der Welt abkapselt, hat sie zu diesem Tweet jedoch sehr viel zu sagen. In kurzer Zeit feuert sie unter dem Hashtag #kyliejennerfidead eine Reihe anonymer Tweets ab, um knallhart und unmissverständlich ihren Frust darüber zum Ausdruck zu bringen wie weiße Frauen von Black culture and stereotypes profitieren. Auf Twitter - wo Worte eben doch mehr als Taten sagen - entbrennt eine Diskussion, die die Grenzen zwischen Online-Personas und IRL Beziehungen verschwimmen lässt ... Das moderne Drama seven methods of killing kylie jenner setzt sich mit Themen wie cultural appropriation , queerness , friendship sowie the ownership of black bodies online and IRL auseinander.

seven methods of killing kylie jenner combines theatre with gifs, memes and emojis to explore stereotypes of Black womanhood, white capitalist exploitation, and the politics of social media activism.