An approach to a first handbook for agitating and propagating from and for feminist performance

An approach to a first handbook for agitating and propagating from and for feminist performance Some of the ideas expressed in this piece have been previously shared in multiple workshops, conferences, and in our book Polifonías feministas (colectivo LASTESIS 2022), as well as in individual writings derived from the collective experience of Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem (2022;2023).Answering the question about a manifesto as a collective confronts us with the current urgency of constantly reinventing anti-fascist feminist strategies through performative and stage devices.From our feminist trench, we have never believed in manifestos per se, as we have always been confronted with more questions than truths.We have many convictions, but we view with suspicion the Western construction of what we understand as 'truth'; of a unique way of thinking and doing.However, from our feminist and decolonial perspective, we do believe in possible methodologies that are constantly under construction and change, which structure ways of doing things in a practice that involves both artistic creation and feminist activism.For this reason, we have taken advantage of this opportunity to write a first draft of a manifesto/anti-manifesto/retrospective reflection and/or handbook to agitate and propagate from and for feminist performance, emphasizing the idea of the handbook as a guide, as a starting point for inspiration or tension, to chart a course together, but one in which each person can adapt, counter-propose, or destroy what we propose here, according to the urgency of each struggle and territory. Situated knowledge: embodied feminist objectivitiesA starting point is our epistemological stance: from where we stand and see, in order to create and activate.The collective's research/creation is grounded in feminist epistemology, understood according to Donna Haraway's (1995) approach to situated knowledge, as well as a feminist form of stage work.