No Estoy Sola (I Am Not Alone): Addressing Gender-Based Violence through Community-Based Theater

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Pathways: A Journal of Humanistic and Social Inquiry
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Me Too Movement
Chicana/o Studies
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Women's Studies
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In this article, I analyze how women at the border city of El Paso address the #MeToo movement and gender-based violence through community-based theatre. By using testimonios and performance ethnography, I analyze the power of storytelling to create awareness of gender-based violence on the border and ability to create solidarity. The theater has become an effective way of addressing such a stigmatized topic. The performance of the theater has inspired a workshop that is now used to help survivors heal their wounds by understanding that they are not alone.

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2021-02-17
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