Performer, Writer, Speaker, Filmmaker
Morgan M. Page is a Welsh-Canadian transfeminist activist, artist, writer, and Santera in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In addition to her work at a major local LGBT organization, where she runs programs for trans adults, trans youth, and trans sex workers, Morgan also writes for PrettyQueer.com. (more…)
Storytelling
NCN is the boy-band-inspired stage name of a hater of capitalism, believer in collective liberation, and conductor of storytelling experiments for children and adults. Sir Eyes, the babydonkey, and all of NCN’s other characters (NCN personifies everything he sees) inhabit worlds where cause-and-effect logic and Newtonian physics have been replaced by magic, desire and SM fantasy. (more…)
Dystopian Folktronica
Kelsey Jarboe’s work is about collective memory, historical revisionism, and escapism, incorporating field recordings with songwriting, samples, spoken word, and abstract vocal improvisation. It attempts to evoke both familiarity and alienation: the uncanny of a home we have only seen on television or heard of in myth. The music is strongly influenced by both experimental and pop histories and is ideal for reclusive science fiction geeks.
photographer
Leon Mostovoy is a transgender artist who has been on the front lines of creating queer and political art for decades. Formerly Tracy, he started his queer art career with publishing erotica for On Our Backs magazine in the early 1980s. He has photographed for Quim magazine, created book covers for Leslie Finberg and Lynda Hart, was featured in Nothing But The Girl, was published numerous times in the NYC Portable Lower East Side and Low Rent anthologies and has created many acclaimed exhibitions, such as “The Market Street Cinema,” “Naked Women In Public Places,” “Life Force,” and “Women Ex-Cons” and “Death Of My Daughter”. He film short about FTM and gender identity “Death Of My Daughter” filmed in 2010 has has international success in the LGBTQ film festivals. (more…)
film, self-portraiture, sculpture, installation, performance and musical composition, clinician, workshop
Jay Sebastian Very B.F.A, M.A.T, is Co-Founder and Director of Tongue in Chic Gallery, a community that empowers transgender and gender variant people who have chosen sex work as their profession.
Hailing from Philadelphia, Helyx Chase is a gender queer dyke video artist, activist and media literacy educator. Ze is a Hampshire College graduate with a degree in Video, Social Justice, Youth Empowerment and Global Power Dynamics. Hir work focuses on extending tools and promoting media creation, specifically for those who are systematically excluded from methods of media production. In 2010 Ze created the Midnight Media Coup as a formal expression of hir activist and artistic work.
Visual Voices:
Deadline: Feb. 15 2012
Now Calling 4 Submissions for Trans-Genre’s first ever Visual Anthology, a multi-media compilation of Video, Poetry, and Art exclusively from the Transgender Creative Community.
Book Arts. Poetry. Journalism
Emerson is a trans-man, faerie. His focus is social justice, activism, environmental equality, and literary liberation. Right now, he works as a freelance writer, book artist, farmer and founder of burgeoning small press, Love & Freak.
Fabric Art
Wolfie E. Rawk is a genderqueer fabric artist. Their work deals with themes of fragmentation, repetition, anonymity/erasure and communion. He uses fabric and embroidery to discuss the body as a site of ongoing trauma, a series of tenuous connections and a locus of earthly revelation.
Artist/Writer
Raised in Central Florida to be a good little Catholic girl, Bastian found out he was really a nice Jewish young man fairly early in life, but did not come out as trans* until 2005, when he was 23 and living in Kansas. Bastian is a writer and poet who dabbles in watercolor and oil painting, printmaking, and Native arts and crafts. He also plays trumpet, piano, baritone, bassoon, french horn, and sings…but does not practice as much as he should, aside from his trumpet in pep band.
Artist, Musician – Old Country
Chastine Crystal Patterson is an artist in wood and engraving, teaching art, as well as performing and writing music. She has been blessed for 63 years with bringing this alive with a strong passion for music, as well as the performing arts.
Let’s Rock Together!
That’s right folks! We are at it again!
Announcing the Call for Submissions for the 2nd Trans-Genre Compilation CD! (set to release Jan. 2010)
What We’re Looking for:
…to showcase their amazing talent on the next Trans-Genre Compilation CD!
Visual Art, Writer, Spoken Word Performer, Actor, Activist/Speaker
Cooper Lee Bombardier is a Visual Artist, Writer, Performer, Actor, Carpenter, Welder and Activist. He lives in New Mexico, with his two genius dogs. He works as an organizer with LGBT and straight ally youth and as a journeyman stagehand/carpenter.
Writer, Artist, Musician
(Former female Sam Peterson describes his forays into a brave new world of masculinity via therapy and testosterone: one that involves “manfirmations,” sublime hilarity at the expense of self, and just general all’round trananigans. – ThaManSam.blogspot.com)
Sam Peterson is a Sam-of-all-trades. He’s tattooed AIDS activist/performance artist Diamanda Galas, been filmed by the Discovery Channel for their documentary on artists and piercing, been filmed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (TransGeneration, The Eyes of Tammy Faye), taught feminist porn-writing with Gynomite!, escaped from a cult, and played guitar at CBGBs. And that was before he manned-up!
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