Staging the Romani Queer Revolution: New Approaches to the Study of Romani Queerness

I In this paper, provide an intersectional analysis of Roma Armee, a theatre play staged at Berlin’s Maxim Gorki theatre. wish to challenge preconceptions and representations Romani queer feminist identities by investigating the personal narratives self-envisioning performers. While there are notions that queers live only as victims, perpetrators violence, or unwitting exoticized objects desire for mainstream consumption, favour more complex image, showing how some articulate their own sexuality, race, class, agency. look these articulations met in communities, majoritarian audiences Berlin Stockholm, order problematize nature being minority within minority. end with remarks on revolutionary potential play, arguing creates spaces healing can be seen significant contribution epistemic ontological shift when it comes knowledge production.