Sex Workers and Theater of the Oppressed- Zoom Event
What can theater accomplish that a court ruling alone cannot?
India’s landmark Prajwala judgment draws an essential line: sex work is not human trafficking. Yet legal recognition only matters when people can understand, claim, and put their rights into practice.
Please join myself and my CLA colleagues Kavitha Koshy and Aparna Nayak for Rehearsing Rights: Sex Workers and Theater of the Oppressed, a timely conversation with three activists whose organizations are using participatory theater to turn legal rights into lived change for sex workers in India.
Drawing on Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed, our speakers will discuss how performance can help communities confront violence, challenge entrenched power, and rehearse different possibilities for justice:
- Girija Hariharan, Artist and Theater of the Oppressed practitioner, Haan, Hum
- Ratna Kumari, President, Me and My World
- Meera Raghavendra, Director, Women’s Initiatives
Thursday, October 29, 2026
6:30 p.m. Pacific Time
India: Friday, October 30, 7:00 a.m. IST
Online via Zoom:
The event is free. Please share this invitation and the attached flyers with students, colleagues, and community partners who may be interested.
Co-sponsored by Global Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and French and Francophone Studies with support from the CLA Scholarly Intersections Grant.
