the young people's professor

Listen to me folks: If there is only one show you get to attend this year, make sure that it is Volcano’s Birthright{s}. Opening Off-Broadway right in the heart of New York City’s world-famous theatre district, this show will change your life and give you new home for theater as a site of radical, black cultural critique.

Volcano’s Birthright{s} is the one-woman tour-de-force by black feminist poet, activist, and performance artist Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene (described elsewhere as a “fierce Nigerian dyke…who was born with a mouth full of dynamite and sugarcane.”) The play illuminates the soul of a dyke daughter of Nigerian immigrants through stories of heartache, art, activism, culture and roots. In the face of genocide and war, this work asks of itself and the world: are poems enough?

A graduate of Oberlin College's African American Studies program, Yvonne is a an active and passionate member of the Safe OUTside the System Collective, a working group of the Audre Lorde Project which works to challenge violence against queer people of color. She also works at Astraea: Lesbian Foundation for Justice.


The show is up for a very limited run from May 1st to May 10th at The Tank, located on 354 West 45th Street. TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 (which is truly AMAZING, given how much of a GIFT this show is)! I want any and everyone who is reading this blog to buy your tickets RIGHT NOW. Here is the link: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/62898

I will be at opening night, and probably several other performances. It would be great to meet you there. Please, please, please---buy tickets!!!