The Performing Justice Project (PJP) uses theatre and performance to engage young people in envisioning the creation of a more just society.
Youth participants move through a process in which they reflect on, examine and interrogate their own embodied experiences of racism and sexism. Through this process, they devise and share original performance material that creates opportunity for dialogue with the goal of activating personal and community change.
The Performing Justice Project was developed through significant partnerships between the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, the Embrey Family Foundation, and school and community-based collaborating sites.