Jamez Terry (alias Vermicious Knid) is a zine-writing, fiddle-playing, story-telling, circus-loving historian and radical organizer. He moves as often as possible, in order to keep wreaking havoc in new parts of the world, and is currently living in Somerville, MA. He has published more than 50 zines in the last 12 years with writings that include politics, fiction, poetry, personal stories, and humor, and, in 2003, he co-founded the Denver Zine Library. Jamez has worked in multiple queer activist settings, providing trans education at conferences, schools, churches, and nonprofits around the country. In organizing the Tranny Roadshow, Jamez has found a way to unite all of the things he loves best - travel, zines, performance art, and queer/trans activism.

Ryka Aoki de la Cruz is a writer, composer, chemist, black belt, and moonshiner who has recently been featured at the National Queer Arts Festival, the National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival, Ladyfest South 2007, Atlanta Pride, UCLA’s OutCRY, and Fresh Meat. In 2005, Ryka was the inaugural performer for San Francisco Pride’s first ever Transgender Stage. She has also worked with the American Association of Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors, and two of her compositions have been adopted by the group as its official “Songs of Peace.” Ryka has been honored by the California State Senate for her work with Trans/Giving, LA’s only art/performance series dedicated to trans, genderqueer, and intersex artists. She was formerly head judo coach at UCLA and Cornell University, and is a professor of English at Santa Monica College.

Heidi Barton Stink is a HipHop artist based out of Minneapolis. She writes and performs positive HipHop with an emphasis on social justice and trans and queer rights. A talented performer and wordsmith, she is a rising star in the world of independent rap. She has free music to download at bartonstink.bandcamp.com/ and facebook.com/bartonstink, where you can also watch for her upcoming shows.

Part-time poet, activist, Mainer, guitarist, radical queer, parent, advocate for non-violence, alien-abduction fanatic, survivor, deconstructionist, opera singer, and elementary-school-playground Spanish speaker, Liam Bechen walks barefoot between moments. He plays the geetar and sings sometimes in a rockin' band project called A is for &, which also includes Jamez Terry and his violin. Liam is the founder of Gender is Not Binary: Queering the Gender of Social Networking, and he believes, more than anything, in the blueness of the sky.

Performer/author/musician solidad decosta is an uppity Portuguese woman who isn't afraid to claim her black Latina maternal ancestry. Equal parts street journalist, storyteller and crone-ta-be with Leo moon credentials, her work encompasses the why and where of life outside the boxes in a label obsessed world, and the what, when, who and how of everything else. solidad has performed at a variety of venues throughout the US, including St. Marks, Antioch University, Pitzer College, Bumpershoot Literary Stage, SomARTS and Brava! Center for the Arts. Her work has appeared in Shampoo, Mirage#4/Period(ical), ALLiance, P!, Angry Poet, Street NOTES and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In addition, solidad has facilitated writing and performance workshops at Cell Space, STARC, Dancing Tree, SF Juvenile Hall, Alameda County Youth Facility and Pitzer College. She holds an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts, and was the 2008 recipient of the Kari Edwards Scholarship at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program.

Roadshow veteran Red Durkin is one of the only openly transgender stand-up comedians in the United States. In her time, she’s performed as a poet, a rapper, and a story teller, but her true passion is comedy. She’s performed at Camp Trans, clocked more time with the Tranny Roadshow than almost anyone else, and hosted events all over the country. Red has made it her mission to bring levity and irreverence to a community that too often has little to laugh about. A North Carolina ex-patriot, she now resides in Oakland, CA. Check her out on Youtube: www.youtube.com/daedsider

Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, StormMiguel Florez is a Mexican aMaricon singer/songwriter, QueErotic performance artist, and live tranny sex show producer. Sometimes he does these things all at once. StormMiguel currently lives in the Bay Area and has performed his music and spoken word across the US. He co-founded, co-produced (with seeley quest) and performed in the pornarific cabaret Trans as Fuck in San Francisco and West Hollywood (2004, 2006, 2008). Trans as Fuck received a Queer Cultural Center grant and showed at the 2008 National Queer Arts Festival. His first paying gig was at the age of 10: He was a proud extra in the made-for-TV movie, Police Woman Centerfold. StormMiguel is also an occasional leader of queer ritual, he is learning how to integrate trans and POC activism with sexiness and connection to Mama Earth. Check out his music, and very random vlog here: http://www.stormflorez.com

Inspired by classic fables and myths, occult symbolism, street art, and surrealism infused with a pension for social/ environmental activism and transfeminist sensibilities, Geppetta presents art/performance as a whimsical, yet politically aware language that is imaginative and enlightening. In addition to the Tranny Roadshow, Geppetta's work has been featured with the Femme Show, Puppet Uprising, and Fresh Meat Productions among others. www.stitchingtentacles.wordpress.com

Shawna Virago is a celebrated transgender songwriter and activist. Her music twists together punk roots rock and insurgent country, creating anthems for a new generation. The SF Bay Guardian called her “elegant, edgy and elegiac.” The SF Bay Times said Miss Virago is a “transgender songwriting goddess who manages to channel Joe Strummer through a Candy Darling-like persona.” She is the Director of Tranny Fest, the nation’s first transgender film and video festival. Her new album Objectified is available at www.cdbaby.com. Her most recent writing is in the trans/gendervariant anthology, Gendered Hearts. www.shawnavirago.com.

Nathen Wurzel, aka Fag/It, is a juggler, a musician, a writer, a talker, a cyclist, a street performer, and probably a whole lot of other things, known throughout the New York City Subway system (and much of the rest of the country) for his colorful costumes, and socially-aware, often politically-incorrect ranting and rhyming. He is a proud tranny and gender abolitionist who, despite having made appearances in a number of folk music, burlesque, and theatre circles with queer-themed songs and poems, has never performed in a queer-specific setting...until now! Obviously, he is beside himself with glee and feels incredibly fortunate to be a part of this amazing ensemble.

Local Performers & Traveling Art, Pacific Northwest Tour

Rosco Kickingstone, a two-spirit, chican@ mutt, with mixed blood of conquest,
has been slinging a six string for the past twelve years, and has been gender fucking since birth.
It takes life experiences, ancestral knowledge, pissed at the system, bits of its culture, one good ear,
and every song it's ever heard to strap-you-on a wild ride through melodic, orchestrated chaos,
via guitar and oral whoop-lash.
This ain't yo grandpappy's folk sing-ah!
Rosco is a former outreach worker for homeless GLBTQ youth on the streets in Seattle,
it wrote music and performed with a queer, fantasy metal band called Doomhawk,
and began learning drums to start a Tranarchist@ punk band called the "Witch Kromosomes"
It is currently playing guitar and singing in a Seattle based punk band called, Los Villan@s (formerly the Villans).

Everett Maroon is a storyteller, trans advocate, humorist, former government wonk, and baking experimenter. He was a founding member of the DC Trans Coalition, which helped to install the most comprehensive protective regulations for transgender people in the country. A member of the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association, Everett waxes philosophic and funny over on trans/plant/portation, and is a contributor to the popular culture blog, I Fry Mine in Butter.

Russell Melia is a mandolin fury, occasional poet, critical theory dilettante and huge queen. He has released two albums with the Open Face Records collective as Pegasissy, and will release another one, Several Other Friends, this spring. His fiction and poems have appeared in Silo, The Interrobang, and, most recently, Knockout. Russell received his BA from Bennington College, where he studied literature and ceramic art. He is a native of Oregon, where he currently lives and works and knits and bicycles and writes. He fears garbage trucks, but has never met a bottle of bourbon or eyeliner he didn't like. His music is available at pegasissy.bandcamp.com, and he blogs his gender transition at marginalpass.blogspot.com.

since beginning to write poetry at eleven and starting to slam at eighteen, tash shatz has found a voice from the heartplace through words. tash hopes that within hir fabulously transfeminist genderfunky anti-oppression wonderment you’ll find something that speaks to the places inside of you that haven’t yet seen rainbows or those places that really need a hug. committed to community organizing, tash is dedicated to building beloved community as a trans genderqueer survivor and activist for racial, economic, disability, and reproductive justice. tash believes that we can do it all without leaving anything out. continuously learning about self-love, tash is a fan of singing off key and being naked in the sun. (a blog is in tash's near future, but for now you can find some of hir work here: www.youtube.com/user/tashatz)

Traveling Art: Sam Thorp is classically trained in anatomy and fine art techniques, displaying provocative imagery dealing with personal conflict, and androgynous beauty. The artwork deals with many LGBT issues and the idea of blurring the line between male and female to find a “whole” beauty. Sam exhibits locally in Pittsburgh and internationally with collectors across the world. More work can be seen at www.graphicanatomy.com

As well as other special guests...