DarkMatter Tickets

Darkmatter (Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian) is brilliant and compelling on so many levels that engage the mind, heart and body. The language and pace are scintillating, and the jokes are sometimes uproarious (my favorite: zombie movies as selfies of corrupt moribund US impérialism). At the same time, the personal stories of being queer South Asians growing up in racist transphobic America are emotionally wrenching without ever being sentimental or self-absorbed. Above all, Darkmatter is a cultural feast that lifts entertainment into political education about the intersections between racist violence, militarism, colonialism, popular culture, mainstream politics and eroticism. You won't ever think about drones, Harry Potter, Hillary Clinton, feminism, or trans lives the same way again.