What can this book’s performative theory of protest offer contemporary practices and analyses of protest? Developed with reference to two gatherings in the recent past, this theory provides neither a checklist nor rules to use in practicing, interpreting, and studying public gatherings. Nevertheless, the conclusions it draws about protest’s central criteria and the conventions it reconstructs at each register can inform a critical examination of the conditions under which other gatherings may have counted as political action or failed to. Moreover, the analytical arguments Unruly Acts makes about convention, publicity, and the relations between the gathered and their audiences bring questions of audience engagement to bear on performative and radical democratic thought. Briefly examining the January 6, 2021, Capitol storming and the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, the chapter suggests that our ordinary ideas of protest have enduring force but are open to improvisation, public interpretation, and contestation.