ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Monday, September 19, at 9 a.m.

USC Students, Staff, and Faculty: RSVP
USC Alumni: RSVP
General Public: RSVP

DESCRIPTION:
DarkMatter, featuring Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, is a trans South Asian performance-art duo based in New York City. A pair of self-described “radical, freaky queers of color who are not proud in the ways that the white gay establishment wants us to be,” DarkMatter is known for their quirky aesthetic and political panache. #ItGetsBitter is a poetry show and an interruption, a mixture of art and activism, poetry and polemic, giggles and gasps. It’s DarkMatter remixing spoken word, stand-up comedy, fashion, and nursery rhymes to share stories about navigating the world in all of its ordinariness and peculiarity as trans South Asians. #ItGetsBitter critiques the status quo while imagining new ways of being and resisting.

DarkMatter regularly performs to sold-out houses at venues such as La MaMa Experimental Theatre, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. They were recently part of the Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival, Lincoln Center’s La Casita festival, and the Queer International Arts Festival.

Additional Links:
DarkMatter Facebook

Related Event:
Resist! A Workshop on Student Activism with DarkMatter
Friday, October 21, 2016, from 12 to 2 p.m.
Parkside Performance Café
For more info, click here.