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. 

She is currently working on her first film through Inside Out Festival’s Queer Video Mentorship Project, which will premier at Inside Out Festival in May 2012.

Morgan is also the founder and curator of TWAT Fest (Trans Women’s Arts Toronto), the first ever Trans Women’s arts festival. TWAT Fest is scheduled for August 2012.

In June 2011, Morgan was the recipient of the LGBT Youthline’s Outstanding Contribution to Community Empowerment Award at the Community Youth Awards for her work in creating Canada’s first project for trans youth experiencing intimate partner abuse.

She has spoken across Ontario at Universities and colleges, including McMaster University, George Brown College, and Ryerson University, as well as at LadyFest Toronto 2009 and at SACL’s Celebrating Women’s Sexualities week in London, Ontario. She has given workshops across Ontario and at the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference on a number of trans and queer topics.

Links to Morgan:

Morgan M Page on Tumblr

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characters (NCN personifies everything he sees) inhabit worlds where cause-and-effect logic and Newtonian physics have been replaced by magic, desire and SM fantasy.

For the past many years, intermittently,  NCN has recorded and performed the stories of his friend Tigerlad. Like and unlike NCN, Tigerlad set off one day on a Gender Quest only to lose sight of his original goal in a tangle of (mis)adventures.

NCN is honored to be privy to Tigerlad’s ongoing tales, and doubly-honored to get to relay them to the world. His favorite part of performing is collaborating with the audience, and he’s always trying new tricks to make that happen. As a shy person, he most enjoys facilitating structured, low-pressure group activities such as games and art and writing prompts.

Links to NCN:

tigerlad.com : Tigerlad’s Interweb Home: a virtual home for a virtual tiger-boy-idea, his friends, and fragments.

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.

Most recently, they have written music with the Theater Offensive’s True Colors Out Youth Theater program in Boston, and performed with local songstress Amanda Palmer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. They also occasionally cameo at the Oberon for the drag/cabaret/genderblender show TranniWreck. In 2010, they performed in the Works-in-Progress Festival at the experimental performance art venue Mobius in Boston, and at the Somerville Armory with local legend Rick Berlin. Before that, they also played at the Arisia Science Fiction Convention and an anarchist gatheting in the woods.

Their live shows always involve high energy, catharsis, humor, and audience participation. One review of their most recent release, “Magical Realism”, wrote, “Poignant, powerful, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes whimsical, ‘Magical Realism’ expands significantly on last year’s excellent ‘Among Your Kind.’ A real masterpiece.” — Love and Mathematics (loveandmath.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/kelsey-jarboe-magical-realism/)

Links to Kelsey Jarboe:

Listen to Music by Kelsey Jarboe on Bandcamp here!

Kelsey Jarboe: Official Blog

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.

His most recent projects explore transgender identity. Most of his former photographic series have been about the struggles and triumphs of women as they strive for strength and independence living outside the lines of heteronormative expectations. He has always worked to create photographs and videos that give a voice to the unheard. His most celebrated art has been the documentation of the fight against the AIDS pandemic, sex workers, queer erotica, and women ex-cons. He creates art out of his own personal strife and the r/evolution of queer rights. His work is created to bring light to the dark and misunderstood as well as the beautiful, righteous people who have been cast away by society because of ignorance and fear. “Women Ex-cons” is about women in the prison system and the injustices suffered at the hands of a failing political system. “Life Force” is about a woman living with AIDS and was shown in Los Angeles was well as in the 1998 12th World AIDS Conferen ce in Geneva, Switzerland. He worked with ACT-UP NYC and ART POSITIVE NYC as a photographer in the fight against AIDS from 1988-1993 and created a tribute show about people living with AIDS for the first Day Without Art NYC in 1990. Leon has had over 50 shows, including solo and group photography exhibitions and multi-media shows.

In addition, he has collaborated for a decade on international multi-media shows with performance artist Divianna Ingravallo. and has also collaborated with Annie Sprinkle, Julie Tolentino, Ron Athey, Cheryl Dunye , Angela Davis, and many more extraordinary people on the revolutionary front.

Links to Leon Mostovoy:

Official Blog

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.

Jay uses film, self-portraiture, sculpture, installation, performance and musical composition to reflect on societal constructs around gender, kink and sexuality. His performance name is Little Orphan Tyranny-whose mission is to queer people one lapdance at a time.

Jay hosts and promotes Queer, sex-positive events that spread awareness about underserved and stigmatized populations in an effort to empower and build solidarity among communities.
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Links to Jay Very:

Official Website of Jay Very

Official Website of Little Orphan Tyranny

Official Website of Tongue in Cheek Gallery

Kickstarter for the Jay Very Story

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.

Hir work includes The Trek Project, a multimedia exploration of how we see ourselves in a global context. The main component of the project is El Trompo, a short documentary that has been screened in many places including as a map-making installation in Amherst, MA and Philadelphia, PA.  Additionally, ze created Remapping Our (his)Stories, a project that uses media literacy practice to reframe the ways we see and construct (his)Story.  The project involved developing a youth program and curriculum as well as a multi-media installation, (his)Story: A Generation of Documentation.  Both the curriculum and installation use community based and interactive practices to examine how we do and how we can document our own histories.

Hir work seeks to promote media literacy practice and alternative media production as a manner to dismantle and systematic oppression.  Ze is a member of the Trans Oral History Collective and currently partnered with Trans-Genre to produce Visual Voices, a visual anthology of work by Trans Artists.

Connect with Helyx Chase:

Midnight Media Coup – Official Website

Youtube – find video’s from Helyx here

Visual Voices:

Deadline: Feb. 15 2012  

Still Accepting Submissions!

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.

This year we’re going all the way with our first  ever DVD/Zine compilation and we want you to be a part of it!!

What we’re looking for:

We want your best:

• stories
• animated shorts
• music videos
• performance
• poetry
• comics
• and other forms of visual art

Submission Requirements:

• Must be a Registered Artist with Trans-Genre (sign up here!)
• Work must be of original content and not infringe upon any legal or moral copyrights.
• Priority given to previously unreleased exclusive material

Zine Submission Guidelines:

Leah B. of Gender EDGE will be handling all Zine Submissions. Please Contact Leah B. with any questions.

• Size: max. 10″x8″ (but should be legible at as small as 4.5″ x 7.5″)
• Formats excepted: .pdf, .jpg (other formats accepted upon request)
• B&W or full color submissions accepted
• 300 dpi

Email Zine Submission to Trans-GenreSubmission@live.com. or upload through our Yousend it account below:

https://dropbox.yousendit.com/Visual-Voices-Submission

Video Submission Guidelines

Helyx Chase will be handling all DVD Submissions. Please Contact Helyx with any questions.

• Max file size: 1GB
• Duration: minimum 1 ½ to max. 20 minutes
• Formats excepted: .mov .MPEG2 (.mp4 .avi .dv )

Upload your Video submission online thru our YouSendIt page:  https://dropbox.yousendit.com/Visual-Voices-Submission (We thank you for your patience as large files may take awhile)

Please remember to include your name, email, and submission info!

If you prefer to mail a hard copy please Contact A.J. Bryce at Trans-Genre@live.com to request the mailing address and more info.

(Ksenya) Leah B. stands militantly behind a philosophy and evolving concept entitled Gender EDGE. Utilizing punk ideals and a constant DIY approach Gender EDGE focuses on the continued empowerment of the transgender / gender variant community through artistic mechanisms.

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Emerson is focused on gender variance and literary liberation. He is a writer, artist and reporter who has published work for the Huffington Post, the New York Observer, Radar Magazine, and a variety of other publications. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Wild Gender a source for fabulous, flagrant gender-variant news. Follow him on Twitter @emwhitney.

Check out Emerson’s official Website/Blog! click here!

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.

Using clothing as a stand in for the body, Rawk recycles and manipulates discarded clothing of known and unknown origin. He uses its gender and craft contexts to discuss the concepts of anonymity, gender, violence and healing.

Links:
Official Website

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.

Bastian Quinn Dubh-Ze’ev  attends a small Catholic university, where he is out on campus and frequently participates in PFLAG Coming Out Panels across Wichita. He will graduate in 2011 with a degree in English and Elementary Education. Bastian plans on eventually teaching Special Education using Expressive Arts Therapies (Music/Drama/Dance/Art) and would eventually like to open his own school.

Unpublished professionally, he regularly contributes and edits his school’s yearly literary magazine. Bastian loathes traditional terms for sexual orientation and gender identity. He self-identifies as “heteroflexible” or “qweird.” He and his adorkable ftM boyfriend, Elliot Holloway, live in Wichita with their cat, Smokey Elvis, and dog, Rufus Valentine. They are active members of the Wichita Two-Spirit Society and regularly attend shul at Temple Emanu El. When they have time, they hold weekly TransFamily dinners for their small community.

Check out the Official Website for Bastian Quinn Dubh-Ze-ev

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.

Chastine finally emerged, two years ago, the female that she always was within. Known as Chas by her soul mate, partner and friends, Chas shows unyielding passions for life and her music.

Being a part of the Tranny Roadshow in 2008, as a local performer, added one more delightful and fulfilling chapter to her life. Being both born and raised in Colorado, Chastine has performed and written much of her own music over the last several decades. Growing up on the old 50s & 60s country music, this is where she not only shines, but comes to life.

The original artist is by her side and deep within her soul, bringing forth the passion and excitement that lives within us all, while bringing her own flame to every one she performs.

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:

• Musicians
• Bands
• Spoken Word
• Storytelling
• other Audio
• Artists
• Graphic Designers

…to showcase their amazing talent on the next Trans-Genre Compilation CD!

We’re Sending out the call now to give you all plenty of time to get your stuff together. Last Year we featured over 15 Artists, Musicians, Performers, & Speakers on the “Trans-Fusions CD. This Year it could be you…

Requirements:

• Must be a Registered Artist with Trans-Genre (not registered yet? Submit your profile here! )
• Work must be of original content and not infringe upon any legal or moral copyrights.
• Images (for the cover, inside booklet, back, and CD) in .jpg*, 300 dpi (prefered)
• audio in .mp3, .wav*

*other formats accepted with prior approval

You can Submit Directly through the Site with our Simple Submission Form Below, or by emailing A.J. Bryce at Trans-GenreSubmissions@live.com

*It is possible that all submissions may not make the final cut due to space limitations but we’ll try our best to include as many as possible!

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.

Cooper’s visual art and performance have been exhibited nationally.
He is a veteran performer of the legendary Sister Spit tours, as well as the Lowdown Highway book tour. He has performed individually at institutions of higher learning ,sleazy bars and everything in between all across the country.
You can check out some of his writing in the anthologies Lowdown Highway, From the Inside Out-Radical Gender Transformation FTM and Beyond, and the forthcoming anthology Gendered Hearts. Cooper is widely known as the dude on the cover of the Drag King Book. He is currently working on his first novel. He would love to jump in your van for a tour!

Contact Cooper

Articles featuring Cooper:

Dealbreakers – Our Chart

TransNation Article – San Francisco Bay Times

(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!

There is no voice on the interwebs quite like Sam’s. His trans-cendant writing arcs past the union between the hormone-filled syringe and an anticipatory thigh. The path from F to M, so frequently rendered by a butch line drawing, in Sam’s world is a full-blown ecstatic vision. Sam decodes trans as the ultimate Trickster, waiting for that moment of silence to create mischief and even mayhem.
Sam hails from Austin, via Manhattan by way of D.C. seeing it ALL along the way. He works in Chapel Hill, NC now, painting out of his home studio, writing incessantly, and cracking wise about the tragicomic pratfalls of being a middle-aged former woman with an 18 year old boy’s brain, which, after decades of sex, drugs, rock and roll, and body modification, seems pretty darn placid.

Sam is gregarious, warm, and articulate. He would be delighted to speak at your college, school, bath house, or bank. Join him for a night of witty, gritty, savory, and sweet readings that will leave you wanting more.

For booking information, please contact Sam through Trans-Genre, or you can Email Sam Directly.

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Links to Sam Peterson:

Sam’s personal blog – Tha Man Sam

Artwork by Sam Peterson – Hands of Sam