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Artist Bios
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Jamez Terry |
Jamez Terry (alias
Vermicious Knid) - see
updated bio
Ryka
Aoki de la Cruz - see updated
bio
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Ryka Aoki de la Cruz
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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.
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Liam Bechen
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solidad decosta
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solidad
decosta - see updated
bio
Red Durkin - see
updated bio
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Red Durkin
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photo by Cindy Emch
StormMiguel Florez
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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
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Geppetta
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Rosco Kickingstone
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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
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Modern Day Pinnochio
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Kyle Shaughnessy
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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
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Nathen Wurzel
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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.
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Local
Performers & Traveling Art, Pacific Northwest Tour
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Everett Maroon
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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.
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Russell Melia
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Tash Shatz
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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
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Sam Thorp
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