Batty Bwoy starts from a place of play and desire, entangled in violence and charming cruelty. Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican term “Batty Bwoy” (literally, butt boy), slang for a queer person, Harald Beharie’s work twists and turns the myths of the black queer body unfolding vulnerable possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety.

Conversations about world building and identity.