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 We are providing a list of TO-based jokers and organizations that we endorse here for a very specific reason: We are all jokes who are working against historic marginalization in our lives and in our TO practices. It is one of Stage Left’s core values to attend to the differences between equal opportunity and equal access. Equal opportunity implies that all people are the same and therefore have the same chances as each other for professional development. Equal access recognizes that so many of us are marginalized by and oppressed because of our social identies as “others” (queer, of color, poor, disabled, Aboriginal, etc.). As a result, we understand that discrimination has created barriers to the establishment of our practices and to the recognition they have merited. In this section, then, the organizations or jokers we include here are those who are creating opportunities in ways that celebrate differences rather than negate them, and in ways that attend to the need for those of us on the margins to locate ourselves within the centre – but on our own term, rather than through assimilation processes. In other words, we endorse TO jokers and organizations who necessarily attend to social justice because we need to in our own lives, rather than those who attend to social justice on behalf of us “others”. Social justice is a way of necessarily living life, it's not just a job. These are some jokers we are happy to be in solidarity with in our quest for true social justice: The International Theatre of the Oppressed organization
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