“Batty Bwoy” is a slang expression used in Jamaica to refer to queer people. In this performance, Harald Beharie, a Norwegian artist of Jamaican origins, reappropriates this expression, twisting and turning the myths of the queer body to invoke demonic sensitivities and charming cruelties, unfolding vulnerable possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety. The work is inspired by widespread myths, disgusting stereotypes, feelings and fantasies related to queer bodies and identities, homophobic dancehall lyrics, 70s Italian giallo films, the resilience of the Jamaican community of Gully Queens – who had to face the consequences of rampant homophobia – and by queer voices in Norway and Jamaica that participated in the creative process. “Batty Bwoy” goes through the porosity of bodies and languages, attacking and embracing sedimented narratives around the fear of the queer body as a perverse and deviant figure. The work evokes an ambivalent being existing on the threshold of a precarious body: it is liberated power, joy and batty energy.