ABSTRACT
Chisa Hutchinson’s award-winning plays-including She Like Girls (2010) and Dead and Breathing (2014)-provide a critical Black queer feminist intervention within Black, queer, and women’s histories. Her dramatic oeuvre privileges the experiences of Black queer girls and women and, in so doing, attests to their resiliency, reveals the forces that harm them, and issues a call for the Black community to include their concerns within the Black liberation struggle. Ultimately, by privileging Black queer girl subjectivity and their pursuit of individual and collective empowerment, Hutchinson affirms the sanctity of Black queer lives.
