A turn to the work of four artists: Danh Vō, Ryan Rivera, Martin Wong, and Audre Lorde, this meditation on the relationship between reproductive labor and performance’s mode of reproduction attempts to describe the complex ways in which women of color and their queer children mobilize performance to sustain queer of color life, both before and after death.

Janelle Reinelt explores playwright Howard Brenton's return to Britain's national stages after almost a decade's absence, discussing recent productions that address the fraught relationship between religious belief and human conduct. Joshua Chambers-Letson contemplates the queer politics of failure in regard to Nao Bustamante's Hero , which challenges the value of “normality” via the possibility of a communal being-in-failure for queers, people of color, and other nonnormative subjects. Engaging South Africa's 2006 National Arts Festival, Daniel Larlham addresses the country's national transformations through its changing artistic landscape, newly opened to a variety of imaginative, discursive, and affective spaces in which a communal historical consciousness might develop.