RACE & GENDER IN SHAKESPEARE RESOURCES

"Why Keep Doing Shakespeare?  Maybe That’s the Wrong Question” by  Rob Weinert-Kendt 

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"I Am Not What I Am: Shakespeare and Gender Fluidity” by ASC

 

“What I am and What I Would: Shakespeare and Non-Binary Imagination” by Abby Weissman and Leo Mock  

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“Reading Race Through Shakespeare, and Vice Versa” by Wendy Smith

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WHOSE LAND WE'RE ON

Shakespeare in the Woods would like to acknowledge  the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Mohican/ Munsee and N’dakina (Abeknaki/Abénaquis), on which we  have been working and performing on. Though we do not  own property, we feel it’s important to acknowledge the  land as an artistic company working in collaboration with  the natural world and one that doesn’t shy away from  unpacking systemic oppression and issues within our  society. We encourage utilizing the resources below to  learn more about the history of this land and the current  descendants of its Indigenous people and rightful stewards,  and recognize that education is an entry point to action.  Individual tribe resources share specific ways in which to be  in community and calls to action.

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Mohican (The Mohican/Munsee lands extended across six States from Southwest Vermont, the entire Hudson River Valley of New York from Lake Champlain to Manhattan, Western Massachusetts up to the  Connecticut River Valley, Northwest Connecticut, and  portions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey) 

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The Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Tribe 

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Wabanaki Confederacy - The Dawnland (The Wabanaki Nations - Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot. Spans beyond Vermont defined borders in the Northeastern US & Eastern Canada) 

 

Elnu Abenaki Tribe (Jamaica, VT) 

 

Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation (Barton, VT) 

 

Koasek Band of the Koas Abenaki Nation (Newbury, VT)

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