Women’s Voices Resonating in Public Space: LASTESIS’s A Rapist in Your Path in the Streets of Toronto

Abstract

In what ways does performance become a platform for women to raise their voices in the public sphere? How is this performance translated from a specific language and context to a different local context, articulating its demand within this new surrounding? How do diverse, diasporic female voices negotiate within this new space? This article explores these questions by analyzing the performance A Rapist in Your Path, created by the Chilean collective LASTESIS and performed by a diaspora of Latina women in Toronto in December 2019 and again during the International Women’s Day on 8 March 2020.