Mara Vélez Meléndez’s play Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members (2022) addresses the collapse of self-governance in Puerto Rico through a parodic drag show centered on killing the seven non-democratically appointed members of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability (PROMESA) Board who control the archipelago’s economy. Lolita, the protagonist, inspired by the Puerto Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebrón, together with the Receptionist, stage seven drag performances in which they rehearse killing the board members. Inspired by the theater of the absurd, by camp and queer theatrical and performance practices, and by Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution, Vélez Meléndez proposes feminist, queer, and trans revolutionary solutions to American colonial exploitation that has been in place since 1898 but that became intensified after the fiscal collapse of 2008 and the imposition of the PROMESA Fiscal Supervision Board in 2016.

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PROMESA, Anti-colonial Drag, and Diasporic Puerto Rican Trans Revolution

  • Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

摘要

Mara Vélez Meléndez’s play Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members (2022) addresses the collapse of self-governance in Puerto Rico through a parodic drag show centered on killing the seven non-democratically appointed members of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability (PROMESA) Board who control the archipelago’s economy. Lolita, the protagonist, inspired by the Puerto Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebrón, together with the Receptionist, stage seven drag performances in which they rehearse killing the board members. Inspired by the theater of the absurd, by camp and queer theatrical and performance practices, and by Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution, Vélez Meléndez proposes feminist, queer, and trans revolutionary solutions to American colonial exploitation that has been in place since 1898 but that became intensified after the fiscal collapse of 2008 and the imposition of the PROMESA Fiscal Supervision Board in 2016.