Writer, Rapper, Story-teller
Red Durkin, from Raleigh, North Carolina, has toured extensively with the Tranny Roadshow, written and illustrated nine of her own zines, and wormed her way into the likes of Punk Planet magazine and the Advocate. A proud, mouthy southerner, Red brings her charming cleverness to everything she does and often carries herself on wit alone. (more…)
poetry, music
oakland, ca
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.
Spoken Word, Homo-hop
Athens Boys Choir is a Gender-Deviant, Multi-Media, Spoken-Word/Homo-hop Extravaganza. The name Athens Boys Choir can be a bit deceiving but you can’t blame a Transsexual Jew living in the Deep South for having a sense of humor about the whole ordeal.
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!
Moody Folk Rock
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. As a co-creator of Trans as Fuck and occasional leader of queer ritual, he is learning how to integrate trans and POC activism with sexiness and connection to Mama Earth.
Musician: freak folk
a stick and a stone weaves minimalist instrumentation, layered rhythms, and inventive string-plucked harmonies, always behind a persistent folk backbone. Most recognized for his dynamic and distinctive voice, songwriter elliott harvey sings stories of family, religion, and philadelphia, with raw lyrics described as brutally honest poetry.
Performance Artist/Vocalist/Drag King Extraordinaire
Syd Deucer is the Genderbent’s Gent. Hailing from Milwaukee, WI Syd had been performing for packed halls and intimate spaces with The Miltown Kings for more than 4 years. Syd began his Drag King career at the age of 7 when he would don a top hat, cane, and spats to perform in front of his family in the living room.
music/performance/poetry/martial arts/
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz is a writer, composer, chemist, black belt, and moonshiner who has recently 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.
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.
Performer
Johnny Blazes is known throughout Boston’s drag and burlesque scenes for hir genre-bending, gender-blending, tongue-in-cheek performances. After training in traditional performance arts, theater, opera and ballet, Johnny started to develop hir own style of performance and art. While attending Oberlin College in Ohio, Johnny continued to expand and assert hir own personal style of performance while testing the limits of gender and genre in the performing arts. It was there ze founded OCircus! and directed the 95-student group for three years. Projects with OCircus! included a small ensemble circus that drew upon vaudevillian traditions to create a dark and sexy narrative with a cabaret feel. The show toured in the summer of 2007 and wowed audiences in Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, New York, DC, Richmond, and Boston.
Writer, Musician, Performer, Activist
Jamez Terry (alias Vermicious Knid) is a zine-writing, fiddle-playing, tomato- loving, radical tranny boy. In 2004, he co-founded the Tranny Roadshow and has since brought fantastic trans performance art all around North America. Jamez’ performances blend storytelling, humor, poetry, music, and sometimes circus costumes, drawing audiences into his unique world where laughter, adventure, and revelation abound.
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Performer, Speaker, Spoken Word
Vince “Loki” Diaz is a 26 year old Comedian, Pagan, Priest, AND Goth who grew up in a Latino Roman Catholic background. He has been featured in American Goth, a documentary by Ryan Rhea (2005), and has done sporadic tour dates within the Missouri pagan and gothic communities.
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Performer, Speaker, Spoken Word
Kestryl Cael is a performer, activist, slam poet, and gender revolutionary. When forced to choose a label, he identifies as a transgender butch. Kestryl Cael has appeared on-stage at conferences, colleges, festivals, and local theatres. He considers it his artistic duty to engage his audiences in critical thought without letting them take him (or themselves) too seriously. (more…)
Queer Fabulist, Puppeteer, Art Educator
…embracing melancholy with magical…
performing ‘The Neck Hater’ from Hear Them Howling: Surreal Fables and Mental Health Survival
“reflective and imaginative…an intimate moving experience” - New Haven Pride Center
Amid cups of tea, mounds of fabric and thread, piles of cardboard, and altars of found objects, Geppetta fervently builds tiny heads and arms, sculpts mystical creatures, paints imaginary, yet nostalgic landscapes, and collects piles of rusty found objects. What crawls from the wreckage become twisted tales, whimsical puppet theater, and story-punk melodies described as “mournful but ingenious” with delightful twists and turns.
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 cryptic, yet politically aware language that is imaginative and enlightening.
Geppetta has been featured with the Tranny Roadshow, the Femme Show, and Puppet Uprising, and featured visual work with Fresh Meat Productions Defying Gravities and Critical Views through Red Sun Press among others. She is a principle artist and organizer for the upcoming Trans Fusions National Tour.
Additionally, she teaches art and social workshops at schools and universities across the country.
For further inquiries, commisions 0r booking, as well as forlorn love letters, please contact Geppetta at stitchingtentacles@gmail.com
Links:
Stitching Tentacles – Geppetta’s Blog
Author, Artist, Performer, and Activist
Sassafras Lowrey is a genderqueer high femme, militant storyteller, author, artist, performer, and activist. Ze believes that everyone has a story to tell, and that the telling of those stories is essential in order to create social change. (more…)
