–S. Bear Bergman, The Nearest Exit May be Behind You, and Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation.

Seasonal Velocities invites the reader on a fragile and furious journey along the highways and skyways of discovery, retribution, and resolve. Through her poetry, essays, stories, and performances, award-winning writer Ryka Aoki has consistently challenged, informed, and enthralled queer audiences across the United States.

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Trans-Genre Press is proud to introduce Aoki’s brilliant first collection as a groundbreaking addition to Women’s, Asian-American, Queer, and Gender Studies.

“I can’t even tell you how long I’ve been waiting to have this book in my collection, and now, to be publishing it is like a dream come true.”

– A.J. Bryce, Founder, Trans-Genre

Seasonal Velocities – poems, stories, and essays

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You may either place your order here, or through Ryka Aoki’s Web store.

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

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

Eli Conley crafts intricate Americana songs from the raw material of his life as a gay transgender man with Virginia roots. “Oh what gorgeous, soulful music!” gushed the acclaimed singer/songwriter Laura Love, “Eli Conley’s writing and singing are exquisite.” Eli is also a powerful live performer, stirring the soul with his utterly memorable tunes and his exquisite voice.

Eli displays his country choirboy croon in full force on his first release, the All the Livelong Day EP by Eli Conley and Hip for Squares. The five-song EP features Maia “Papaya” Wiitala on standup bass and harmony vocals and Talia Cooper on harmony vocals. It is available for free download.

The EP’s title track is a bluegrass-tinged love song between two men in east Tennessee with a buoyant melody — “You’re lovelier than April / You’re handsomer than May / You’re hungry as an apple core / sing all the livelong day.” “Dry As Sin” is a haunting ballad tracing the intertwining impacts of moutaintop removal mining and supermax prisons on the lives of Appalachian people. “Pinocchio” sets your foot tapping as it encourages you to question whether there is any such thing as a “real” boy or girl. “Send Out Your Sentries” explores family and distance, beginning starkly with Eli’s hushed yet supple voice and deftly finger-picked guitar. The song features Maia Papaya in fine form on the upright bass, swelling to a harrowing crescendo where Eli soars effortlessly into his upper register and back down again. “We Will Rise” is the EP’s clarion call for a building social justice movement. Laura Love called it “a gorgeous anthem.”

Eli Conley and Hip for Squares brought their fine playing and lush three-part harmonies on tour to the Pacific Northwest in August 2011. “Fans of Girlyman, a more established feminist band with gender-queer membership, also should like Conley’s trio,” wrote the Eugene Register-Guard.

Links to Eli:

Official Website

Watch more of Eli’s Video’s on Youtube

Eli Conley on Reverbnation – Listen to music and find out about upcoming shows

Eli Conley on Facebook – become a fan here!

Eli on Myspace

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

I’m Jackie Isfabulous a mtf transsexual. I started my transition in may 2010. I started living full time in Nov of 2010. I have legally changed my name and my gender marker on my ID .

 I grew up a quiet kid with and always loved music. It wasn’t until 2009 when a couple of friends who attended berklee school of music invited me to jam and i haven’t stopped since. A friend of mine Dj chillkut formed a duo called The Bozo Nightmare when i was Johnny Rev.

We have played over 20 shows together and released and EP on our own. This past summer I began performing as a solo artist playing 11 shows in july and august including The Phreakin Queer Music and arts festival in Philadelphia.
This past fall I returned to the studio and recorded a solo album titled Proud To Be. I am living a life now that I only thought was a dream ! Believe in yourself and all your dreams can be reality!

~ Jackie Isfabulous

Links to Jackie Isfabulous:

Bandcamp: Jackie Isfabulous – Proud to Be (album)

Bandcamp: The Bozo Nightmare – The Moon and the Stars ep (album)

The Bozo Nightmare on Youtube

Jackie Isfabulous on Twitter

Jackie Isfabulous on Facebook

With the completion of 6 original albums and presently working on other independent recording projects, he is featured in numerous local open-mics, showcases, and concerts throughout the US. Wordz the poet emcee has also been featured on many TV and radio shows both locally & nationally, including “Philly Word Live”, 88.7 FM, 96.5 AM, “In Bed with Butch”, “106th and Park”, and has also appeared on the cover of Original Plumbing Magazine.

Links to WORDZ the poet emcee:

Official Website

Reverbnation

Facebook

Twitter

Elias is a singer, writer, academic, activist, and performer who travels internationally (when he can afford it) and by land (more often, thank you Canada) and is living currently in Chicago, Il. He writes music and performs with various guest artists including Jenny Urban, Madsen Minax (of Actor Slash Model), Kadji Amin (of Humble Tripe), and others.

He is also in the band The Homoticons.

Elias Krell is a PhD student in the Performance Studies program at Northwestern University. He received his Bachelors of Arts and of Music from Oberlin College and Conservatory where he completed a five-year Double Degree program in Classics and Voice. He got a Masters in Music from the San Francisco Conservatory and sang opera professionally for three years before coming to Northwestern in 2008.

He entered the Comparative Literary Studies program at Northwestern and then transferred into Performance Studies to pursue his interests in doing and studying performance. He is also active touring and performing music around the country.

Links to Elias Krell:

Official Website

Myspace

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.

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

Angelica’s journey began when she graduated high school at the age of 17, to avoid 1 more year of spiritual torture. Angelica traveled, from Racine to Rochester, NY where she was recruited by the U.S. Navy. They knew this black blonde-haired boy didn’t belong when she showed up to the physical with her toenails painted, but they enrolled her anyway. Angelica spent 6 months in the military stationed in Yokusko, Japan which ended abruptly after she was almost killed by a few of her shipmates who hung her out of a 3rd story window to force her to admit she was gay. That was the catapult that gave Angelica the drive to begin to live her life for herself.

When she got back on American soil, she began the transformation process at the age of 19 while living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Angelica then began a long career of modeling & acting under the radar. Her agency had no clue for years, until she confided in a gay booking agent at the agency, who became a friend and ally, in getting Angelica work in music videos, runway, and print & commercial, which took away some of the stress by having someone on the “inside” who knew and was looking out for her. But, Angelica would turn down work, after assessing certain jobs would be too stressful for her if anyone were to find out.

Angelica’s purpose in life and as an artist is to find a place of acceptance, love & respect through her music and art, within herself and not from the outside world. Her journey to ALR is documented in her lyrics and the music. It is her belief that her art, synonymous to her life, will reach those who have been looking for the same things. Angelica Love Ross is what the industry would call “independent” or “indie.” A term she embraced when she broke from cultural norms.

Links to Angelica Ross:

Music, Videos, and Show Dates on Reverbnation!

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