The One Billion Rising Flash Mob: From Unspeakable Trauma to Danceable Pleasure. Issue 3 (2nd September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Oh, Chuyun
• Is Part Of: Dance chronicle. Volume 42:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 296
• Page End: 321
• Publication Date: 2019-09-02
• Subjects: One Billion Rising (OBR) -- flash mob activism -- sexual violence -- trauma and dance -- dance ethnography; Dance -- Periodicals; Dancing; 792.805
• DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2019.1673113
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0147-2526

Abstract

Abstract: In One Billion Rising (OBR), a global flash mob protest against sexual violence toward women, the dancing body becomes a political site for advocating freedom and self-defined agency. The flash mob provides a liberating space, allowing marginalized women to make their voices heard through their bodies and to transform their unspeakable trauma into a danceable pleasure for all to experience in a community of mutual support and empathy. This article focuses on my auto-ethnographic participation/observation at OBR events from February 2013 to February 2019 and draws from interviews with seven participants in the United States, Zimbabwe, and Hong Kong.