@article{Bordeaux_Ramos_Taylor_2021, title={Hunger for Culture: Navigating Indigenous Theater}, volume={7}, url={https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/965}, DOI={10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.965}, abstractNote={<p>The 2016 world premiere of Larissa FastHorse’s play <em>Urban Rez</em>, which Cornerstone Theater Company produced, presented a community-based theater experience in Los Angeles County (Tongva and Tataviam homelands). In this essay, our three co-authors utilize the concept of being a guest on Tongva land as a methodology to demonstrate Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans representation within Indigenous theater. Through the work of the playwright, cast, and crew, the <em>Urban Rez</em> narrative asserted self-representation in opposition to settler imaginaries through community-based participatory storytelling. <em>Urban Rez </em>represented a pivot in the current American Theater landscape and a continuation of Indigenous theater legacies. Our essay offers a cross-collaboration between three performers from <em>Urban Rez</em> that represent a wide breadth of academic experiences, performance backgrounds, and community organizing to discuss queer, Two-Spirt, and trans experiences. The co-authors discuss the legacy of counter-narratives in Native theater, demonstrate sovereignty in the play, and utilize queer theory to understand an Indigenous queer experience on stage better. We provide a reflexive co-authorship to assert relationality in the face of heteropatriarchy and contend with our hunger for culture. The co-authors recognize the <em>Urban Rez </em>experience as one of the first major Indigenous theater productions in Los Angeles that included queer, Two-Spirit, and transgender characters that rejected justifying representation from a deficit narrative.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Transmotion}, author={Bordeaux, Clementine and Ramos, Kenneth and Taylor, Arianna}, year={2021}, month={Aug.}, pages={82–109} }