ABSTRACT

Since the 1980s, Latina theatre has focused on presenting lived experiences of the feminine subject on stage, challenging Latina representations in traditional male-centred and male-created theatre. This chapter analyses representational strategies that Teatro Luna in Déjame contarte employs to stage reproductive decision-making. By taking control of the pen and the stage, Teatro Luna explicates the theme of ambiguity in representations about abortion, specifically in “Trapped,” from Déjame contarte, through the character’s journey into Gloria Anzaldúa’s Coatlicue State. Through Anzaldúa’s state of ambiguity, this chapter demonstrates how Teatro Luna builds a space for Latina artists to share their stories about reproductive decision-making, as reproductive justice artivists. Teatro Luna’s storytelling allows for healing and reclamation as a way to mobilise reproductive justice on stage, by building a creative space to advance a reproductive justice movement.