Moved by the non-indictments of the police officers responsible for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering draws parallels between discarded materials and the violent treatment of Black people in the United States. This solo performance healing ritual debuted in January 2015 at La Mama's SQUIRTS: New Voices in Queer Performance. Through performance and installation, Lindley repurposed trash bags to re-member, honor and value the Black lives that have lost due to police violence. In this post-Ferguson moment, Lindley is imagining how to recycle the energy of protest, rage, and grief into creating a world where, indeed, Black lives matter.

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This Ain't A Eulogy is the origin story of The Bag Lady, and serves as a preamble to Lindley's one woman show The Bag Lady Manifesta which debuted at Dixon Place September 2017.

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