Evan Greer is a radical trans-identified / genderqueer singer/songwriter, parent, community organizer and workshop-facilitator based in Boston, MA. Evan writes and performs high energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance! At 25 years old, this queerly punk folk artist tours internationally as a musician and facilitates interactive workshops that support movements for justice and liberation. Wielding an arsenal of fiercely radical acoustic songs that vary in style from pop-punk to foot-stompin bluegrass, Evan has been honored to collaborate, tour, and share stages with artists as musically diverse as Pete Seeger, Immortal Technique, Billy Bragg, Pamela Means, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Boots Riley of The Coup, Emma’s Revolution, State Radio, The Mammal s, Anne Feeney, Wayne Kramer of MC5, Defiance Ohio, Leftover Crack, Holly Near, Chumbawamba, and Vicci Martinez (featured on NBC’s “The Voice.”)

On the road over 150 days a year performing and facilitating interactive workshops for all ages that connect many struggles for justice and liberation, Evan’s primary goal is to directly support grassroots movements with music and education, and also to generate funds for local struggles in the communities (s)he visits.

Evan tours frequently by greyhound bus, car, foot, subway train, airplane, and most recently bicycle, having returned from 1600+ pedal-powered miles around Florida during the Respect Yer Mama Bicycle Tour with Shannon Murray. (S)he is a member of the Riot-Folk! Collective, an innovative group of radical musicians who work together to use their music as a tool for social change. Evan has spent time as a relief worker in New Orleans, a street medic at the G8 protests in Scotland, and has been a youth and community organizer in the Boston-area since high school. A deep involvement in movements for social and ecological justice gives Evan a unique perspective on how to inspire other young people to take concrete action towards a more just and sustainable world.

Evan’s high-energy acoustic songs have been featured on NPR, recorded by well-known artists, and used in high school and college courses. An original blend of catchy melodies, punk rock energy, and shear musical charisma make her instantly at home on a stage or in a classroom, Evan’s lyrics, stories, and analysis offer a challenging and empowering alternative to traditional discussions around social and environmental justice.

Links to Evan Greer:

Official Website of Evan Greer

Evan Greer with the Riot-Folk! Collective 

Evan on Bandcamp

Back to the Roots on Bandcamp

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.

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.

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.

Midwest GenderQueer, commonly known as JAC Stringer, is a transgenderqueer femme radical activist and performance artist. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, JAC strives to create visibility, community, and resources for trans, genderqueer, and queer communities in the Midwestern United States and beyond. His work focuses on trans, genderqueer, and queer communities, sexuality, gender identity disorder removal, (dis)ability, and identity empowerment.

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JAC has lectured across the country at organizations, schools, conferences, and symposia. As a performer, JAC has done genderfucking drag, dance, music, spoken word, and performance art across the USA and Canada. JAC uses hot pants, poofy skirts, and gender theory to create a intriguing space centered on bodies, ability, androgyny, and beyond. JAC has founded and lead several activist movements, education projects, and artist initiatives including The GenderQueer Coalition, GenderBloc, The Queer Peer Education Program, and The Queer Canon Zine. He currently serves as founding director of The Midwest Trans and Queer Wellness Initiative.

Video:

Midwest GenderQueer – Legal Name Change

JAC is a leading activist in Gender Identity Disorder removal and is a very invested in health care reform and comprehensive sex education. He is a strong advocate for sexual assault awareness and prevention with a focus on queer identities and is a trained survivor advocate. JAC is an Advocates for Youth Alum, is a Youth Advocacy & Education Committee leader in his local GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network) chapter, and an organizer on several local and national organizing boards committees including TransOhio, The Philadelphia Transgender Health Conference and The International Drag King Community Extravaganza. JAC is a life-long dancer, poet, pianist, and lyrical vocalist. Selections from his one-human shows Glamboyant and Bar Stories have been performed with Gender Queeries Tour and The Tranny Roadshow. JAC is a co-manager and performer in the internationally recognized professional drag troupe The Black Mondays of Cincinnati, Ohio as well as being the founding director and producer of Fabulously Fluid, Ohio’s premiere annual genderfuck drag showcase.

Glamboyant is being fitted for stage and set to debut 2012-2013. JAC began writing, dancing, creating art, and radically rocking the boat when he was a child. He now considers his work’s purpose to be to promote unity, action, and empowerment within trans, genderqueer, and queer communities and to achieve rights and recognition for these communities through education, art, and various other forms of revolution.

Links to Midwest GenderQueer a.k.a. JAC Stringer:

Official Website

Midwest GenderQueer on Facebook

Midwest GenderQueer on Twitter

Midwest GenderQueer on Tumblr

Midwest GenderQueer on YouTube

(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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Over the past five years Ryan Sallans has worked as a free-lance public speaker where he shares his story, struggles, and observations about being trans.

Ryan began his transition in 2005 and over the years has explored various areas of his gender identity, at times leaning to the extreme side of the gender continuum, but now has settled into a place that he feels doesn’t need to be defined.

Links to Ryan Sallans:

Official Website

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.

Emerson is currently enjoying a break from journalism (He reported and wrote for: The New York Observer, New York Politicker, and Radar Magazine) and is currently authoring and hand-binding a chapbook series that examines the classification, characterization and identification of people as “freaks”. He loves blueberries, twilight, roller-ball pens, glitter, coffee, and all sorts of witches in general.

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

Trashcanpoet is the rhyme-spitting alter ego of Miles Gabriel Burke, an Oakland-based slam poet, writer and spoken word artist. He was first published at 17 and co-founded the alt/hip-hop group RUUDE in Atlanta before moving to the Bay Area, where he has been a finalist for Berkeley’s and San Francisco’s national poetry slam teams and has performed with Fella-Fem, The Men’s Story Project, Artists Against Rape, and the Queer Girl Theatre Project (of which he was the first male-identified member), among others. In addition to performing, he is currently working on a novel, Oaklandia, which is half semi-autobiographical and half pure unadulterated bullshit.

Links to Trashcanpoet:

Official Site

Trashcanpoet on Myspace

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.

solidad has performed at a variety of venues throughout the US, including St. Marks, Antioch University, Pitzer College, Bumpershoot Literary Stage, SomARTS and Brava! Center for the Arts. Her work has appeared in Shampoo, Mirage#4/Period(ical), ALLiance, P!, Angry Poet, Street NOTES and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In addition, solidad has facilitated writing and performance workshops at Cell Space, STARC, Dancing Tree, SF Juvenile Hall, Alameda County Youth Facility and Pitzer College. She holds an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts, and was the 2008 recipient of the Kari Edwards Scholarship at Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program.

Official Website of solidad decosta

Click here for Show Schedule

Shock Value – Video

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.

He (Katz) has been on the road since 2003 performing for audiences that are becoming more diverse everyday. You don’t have to be a spoken-word enthusiast to enjoy the lyrical stylings of the Athens Boys Choir. Katz has the unusual skill of opening even the most skeptical minds to the world of performance poetry.

With Four CD’s released, Katz/The Athens Boys Choir has established himself as a force in the spoken-word/queer/pop culture/ homo-hop movement; you choose how it moves you.

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Check out this Awesome Athens Boys Choir Video!

Links to Athens Boys Choir:

Official Website

Myspace

Facebook

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!

Trans Writer and Activist with a Passion for the Written Word

There’s not much for a born-and-bred Massachusetts Democrat to do in a Midwest town like Wichita, Kansas, right? WRONG! As a recent addition to the GLBTQI community of Kansas, Elliot Coale Holloway has had to find ways other than the exceedingly in-your-face, direct activism he was used to doing, and that is coming through by way of writing.

Elliot was born in Western Massachusetts to his two adoring parents in Spring 1989. By the time he graduated high school in 2007, he had not only begun to transition from female-to-male, but had also made such noteworthy achievements as presenting a workshop about anti-transgender discrimination at the 2007 True Colors Conference in New Britain, Connecticut and joining four other young activists in receiving the 2007 Elsie Frank PFLAG Scholarship. Since then he has done his best to continue on his activist work through both protests and pride events, as well as through writing.

Now that he calls Kansas home, he feels that he has been given a great opportunity to do his good work of promoting trans-equality and visibility, and plans to do this by being as “loud and proud” as possible.

Links to Elliot Coale Holloway:

Friend Elliot on Myspace!

Elliot is also on Facebook! just search for “Elliot Coale Holloway” to find him!

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.

In 2005, Ryka was the inaugural performer for San Francisco Pride’s first ever Transgender Stage. She has also worked with the American Association of Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors, and two of her compositions have been adopted by the group as its official “Songs of Peace.”

Ryka has been honored by the California State Senate for her work with Trans/Giving, LA’s only art/performance series dedicated to trans, genderqueer, and intersex artists. She was formerly head judo coach at UCLA and Cornell University, and is a professor of English at Santa Monica College.

Listen To “A Daughters Prayer” by Ryka Aoki De La Cruz

Find Ryka Aoki De La Cruz on the Web!

Rykas’ Official Website : RykaRyka.com

Friend Ryka on Myspace here!

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

Author

Jacob Anderson-Minshall writes the syndicated column, TransNation. He co-hosts the Gender Blender radio show on KBOO radio, co-authors the Blind Eye Mystery series, freelances for Just Out, Bitch magazine & KBOO news and co-hosts the QLiterati! reading series.

Gender Blender airs monthly on kboo.fm one Tuesday 6-7 pm PST. QLiterati! is the 2nd Tuesday of every month at Portland, OR’s QCenter. TransNation comes out every Thursday. Jacob’s writing in Just Out comes out bi-weekly

Jacob Anderson-Minshalls’ Links:

Anderson-Minshall.com – Official Website

TransNation – Jacobs Column

Blind Eye Mystery Series – Myspace

QLiterati – Myspace

Gender Blender – on kboo.fm