ABSTRACT
Social media and theater are two spaces conducive to telling one’s stories and activating others’ memories. Teatro Luna, a Latina-run company, combines these two spaces in Generation Sex, a devised performance developed by in March 2013 and premiered in April 2015, at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. These vignettes provide a window to view the lives of twenty-first-century women entering into a dialogue with the audience about our relationship to media beyond the stage. The audio-visual text dissects traditional patriarchal modes of femininity that women are still forced to perform, tackling numerous critical questions: Can we truly connect with another person using twenty-first-century technology? Is it possible to resist our online identities? Are we willing to speak out against injustices online? Teatro Luna members take these questions into their own hands and filter their journeys of self-exploration through a variety of lenses, including culture, family and, of interest to this exploration, our relationship with technology. Teatro Luna’s exploration of Internet practices of self-identified Latinx women reveals how women use the Internet and technology to transform their material and mediated lives in ways that resist and reinforce hierarchies of gender.
