How can we break out of being white in a racist society?

How can 6 mostly white women speak against the forces of white supremacy and white privilege?

How can we, as white women, be antiracist activists dedicated to bringing down white supremacy?

Understanding racism is the basis for understanding our whole social system, and everything this country was founded on. Understanding racism gives us a deeper analysis of the conditions this superpower society continues to create in the world, and all the ramifications of globalization this nation rams down the throats of poorer nations. White supremacy lies at the heart of every part of the system- including criminal justice, social justice, the media, trade, environmental policy, foreign policy, and war. Vox Feminista is preparing to go to war against white supremacy.

As part of a frontal attack on white supremacy, we need to break through that solid white wall of resistance. Our weaponry includes drama, comedy, spoken word, video, drumming, and magic. As always, Vox is here to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. Because the answer to confronting our white supremacy isn't about guilt-tripping or confessing our sins or feeling shame, we place ourselves as white folks in the matrix of domination that shapes our culture. It's about looking at all the ways that we walk with and take advantage of privileges that others do not have. Because racism goes so deep, and because privilege is so invisible to those who have it, white people need to come to an understanding of these evils, not through intellectual experiences alone, but through emotional experiences. Political theater offers up an abundance of emotional experiences.

For 14 years, Vox Feminista's vision has been to challenge systems of oppression and domination. We recognize, as white women, that one of the heaviest lynchpins of the meta machine of domination for the past 500 years has been white supremacy. Our latest show, White Lies, looks at the many cultures that struggle today within this nation because of racism. From appreciation of culture to appropriation of culture, from Columbus Day to Palestine, from world trade to white trash, this show shows us the everyday genocide we forget or politely ignore in our never ending quest to assimilate as "proud Americans."

Awakenings are states of consciousness that descend on us, or we ascend to them. We dance with, wrestle with, celebrate the discomfort that we feel of displacement from the familiar defended zones. This show is a dialogue and a monologue and the start at shedding layers of legacies as we look at what we've done to one another, in the name of our privilege. If we are all interconnected, then what happens to my sisters and brothers in South America or Israel or Africa affects me. And since the atrocities of government and corporations are done in my name, I don't have a choice but to be involved because I am involved at the core.

We know that we must act together as mostly white women, women who pass as white, who live as white, to challenge whiteness as a concept and an ideology. As feminists, activists and revolution minded women, we must push ourselves to turn, to displace whiteness from the center, to examine and reject politics of exclusion. We attempt to reach understandings that can turn things around. It's difficult work to open to mistrust and suspicions, to contradictions and paradox. It is an act of love, and we stand before you, naked in our process. We stand on the shoulders of centuries, our bodies and our thoughts are then next layer as we bear witness to the crimes of whiteness. We extend our souls beyond the confines of our skins and our own imperialistic standards, reaching beyond and speaking to the conditions of this time and place.

We believe we can redefine our world by releasing from holding closed the unconscious gates of power and privilege. We can recreate cultures and the world we want to inhabit, beyond our white communities, beyond U.S. borders. This show strives to open new spaces, break old silences, critique lying stereotypes, and shatter comfort in difference and sameness found in the old frozen labels. We speak from our hearts and our bodies, as well as our colonized and colonizing minds. Our goal is to deepen and expand the desires of whites to be allies, to connect, to change ourselves so the world may change. White people are at a crossroads of exiting from an old worldview. Will we choose to enter and cross over the threshold or do we want to continue clinging desparately to white lies? May this show challenge us to choose to cross over. With great discomfort and ambivalence we send it out there into the world to be owned by others.