Artist Bios 2010 Tranny Roadshow
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Jamez Terry


Jamez Terry (alias Vermicious Knid) - see updated bio

Ryka Aoki de la Cruz - see updated bio


Ryka Aoki de la Cruz




Heidi Barton Stink

Heidi Barton Stink - see updated bio

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.




 




Liam Bechen



solidad decosta

solidad decosta - see updated bio

Red Durkin - see updated bio







Red Durkin


photo by Cindy Emch

StormMiguel Florez




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




Geppetta


Rosco Kickingstone



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).


Modern Day Pinnochio - see updated bio






Modern Day Pinnochio

Kyle Shaughnessy



Kyle Shaughnessy will probably make you a little uncomfortable for several reasons. Always eager to put himself in the line of fire, Kyle has appeared on stage, television, radio and in many classrooms as a queer spoken word activist for over seven years. He’s done his thing in venues and events across Canada including the 2006 CBC Poetry Face-Off, OutTV, countless other LGTBQ Pride events and was a member of Vancouver’s winning slam team at the 2005 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Kyle co-organizes the annual Queer Slam in Vancouver and is the author of several chapbooks. He gets his biggest satisfaction out of co-coordinating and facilitating queer and trans workshops, discussions and community development projects such as Happy Tranny Day, Switch and various queer narrative writing/sharing workshops. Kyle leads a quiet East Van life of nesting and conversation with his queer tranny love of five years, Evin, and believes in living well as a subversive act. www.myspace.com/kimshaughnessy


Shawna Virago - see updated bio

 



Shawna Virago


Nathen Wurzel


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


 



Everett Maroon


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.



Russell Melia

 



Tash Shatz

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 - see updated bio


Sam Thorp