Connecting

Original video clip of Stephanie Gray, part of a longer, pro-life speech entitled "Abortion: From Controversy to Civility.”

Through performance, Barrett investigates Gray's strategy and rhetoric to see what could be useful in my own artistic and organizing for the pro-choice movement.

Striking Color is a contemporary response to Zora Neal Hurston's Color Struck, picking up on her characters' return to each other, and placing them n a modern conversation exploring how colorism and its effects have and have not shifted since the original play.