Podcasts about trans artists

Chris Vargas, on the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (MOTHA), a project with no real estate that is "forever under construction," and its Bay Area connections. MOTHA Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects Our episode with Susan Stryker (director of Screaming Queens), on the Tenderloin's Compton's Cafeteria  Sad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tofu Estolas. Support the show and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.  

A talk with Natasha Muse about motherhood, writing and performing stand-up comedy, creative barriers and how sometimes it's easier to meander unknowingly through them.    See Natasha Muse LIVE at Comedy Culture Club, Friday, September 22nd, 2023 at Buck Wild Brewing in Oakland, CA.  Click here to get tickets and info>>About the Guest - Natasha Muse is a stand-up comedian and humorous writer who moved to San Francisco last century and hasn't been pushed out of the City (yet).She likes puns, wordplay, and portmanteaus, and enjoys weaving them into jokes and comical bits about being trans, being a mom, and being alone with her thoughts. Some audiences don't know what to make of her, so it's a good thing she's a self-made lady. When she's not making scores of people laugh on stage, she's plugging away at her blog. Learn more at natashamuse.comAbout Your Host - Holly Shaw has been featured on stand-up comedy showcases all over the Bay Area and Northern CA including Cobbs Comedy Club, Alameda Comedy Club, Cheaper Than Therapy, Laughs Unlimited and the Oakland Comedy Festival. In addition to being on her way to becoming a powerful voice in comedy she is also known for producing and creating spaces where creativity and innovation thrives. She is the executive producer of The Comedy Edge, which started out on the Oakland waterfront at Brooklyn Basin, and enjoyed a streak of sold-out weekly shows (100+ seats) from 2020 - 2022. Before becoming a comedian, Holly Shaw spent a lifetime on stage, T.V. and film as an actor, professional dancer and later as a speaker, coach and hypnotherapist. She's authored two books: the Amazon bestseller, The Creative Formula, as well as the newly released book, Making Art In the Middle of Madness.Through all of her offerings she has helped thousands of performing artists, some of them Emmy Award winning and Grammy nominated, overcome stage fright, impostor syndrome, and creative blocks so that they can create the work they were born to make and become undeniably magnetic performers. Currently she lives in Oakland, CA where she coaches artists, performs regularly and produces The Comedy Edge. To learn more, please visit www.HollyShawComedy.com

HAPPY #TNT100! *Phone rings, door chimes* in struts the phenomenal superstar, Miss Peppermint (say what?! *faints) and we are HERE. FOR. IT! Fresh from her divine performance in 'A Transparent Musical' in LA, this deliciously talented Queen joins us for our EPIC 100th episode- and they said we'd never last! This week, the trail-blazing Miss Pepper Longstocking runs away with some 'Purple' Stone Temple Pilots', before scrubbing up and looking -inward- for a surprise party with some great 'Company' by the greater Stephen Sondheim!Plus, we chat RuPaul's Drag Race, Drag Race Down Under, Artist identity, Broadway 2023, Treble Clefs, future Snatch Game characters, we have our very first listener video questions, and to top it off- there's a MARRIAGE PROPOSAL?!You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll scream "OH MY GOD!" - and be left minty fresh after this truly stunning celebration!For all things Miss Peppermint:Linktree- https://linktr.ee/Peppermint247ACLU Drag Defense Fund - https://action.aclu.org/give/support-drag-defense-fund Website- http://www.peppermintonline.com/Socials- https://www.instagram.com/peppermint247/ Town Hall: a Black Queer Podcast (w/ Bob the Drag Queen) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2cC9fq7olRqIBSGTQNJLUb?si=2e5f78b77c284a2cCharlie/Tarzan/Hunchback tickets: https://www.tuacahn.org/Mr J Wags: https://twitter.com/mrjwags -- https://instagram.com/mrjwagsThe Dohyo - Hot Sumo Talk! https://www.youtube.com/@TheDohyohttps://www.thetonastontales.com/listen -- https://www.patreon.com/bloomingtheatricals - https://twitter.com/thrashntreasurehttps://linktr.ee/thrashntreasure*****Help support Thrash 'n Treasure and keep us on-air, PLUS go on a fantastical adventure at the same time!Grab your copy of The Tonaston Tales by AW, and use the code TNT20 when you check out for 20% off eBooks and Paperbacks!https://www.thetonastontales.com/bookstore - TNT20 ***** ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It is the first day of March! Winter is almost over & spring is almost here! It is #WomensHistoryMonth, and we'll spotlighting women artists all month.And we'll be celebrating a '3 month anniversary' on this week's show ... (if you know me, you know which one it is).Ice Spice [pictured], Pink Pantheress, Megan Thee Stallion, Baby Tate, Flo Milli, Little Simz, Lizzo, Hayley Kiyoko, Sam Smith, Demi Lovato, BLACKPINK, TWICE, Rina Sawayama, beabadoobee, frances forever, Mitski, Dove Cameron, etc etc etc.

Amina Shareef Ali is a trans, Oakland-based singer-songwriter, therapist, mom, and punk of Egyptian, Turkish, and Filipino descent. She discussed the challenges of retracing cultural heritage lost through her father's passing and her mother's assimilation, and the complex pressures of passing identity to the next generation. We also discussed lies we've been told about “making it” as an artist under capitalism, the audience base she found after embracing her queer, trans, and mixed-brown identities, what it means to be (folk)punk, and more! Amina's new album ‘In the Dark (Awake Of Course)' is coming out Monday March 29! Follow her on…

Suzy Wrong is a theatre critic and blogger for the Sydney main stage and independent scenes, publishing at Suzy Goes See. Suzy is the industry’s most prolific critic, providing coverage for approximately 200 productions each year. Since 2013, she has established herself as the most in-demand theatre critic, receiving review requests from virtually every venue in Sydney. Commencing a career in performance in early 1992 with the Singapore Armed Forces Music & Drama Company, Suzy received formal training and intensive stage experience all over Singapore and in neighbouring countries. Her work culminated in a “Best Performance of the Year” Award for the play Purple. Suzy employs a depth of understanding for live performance that allows an appreciation of all components.She moved to Sydney to undertake a Theatre & Film Studies degree at the University of New South Wales. Her focus then switched to studying the artistic ecology of Sydney.A myriad of professional experiences have seen Suzy spend three years in the Blue Mountains region running a gallery; and then a period in the child talent industry. A stint in commercial publishing, allowed her to cut her teeth in the corporate world of audience numbers and advertising revenue.Most recently she inhabited the character of the eccentric and glamorous clairvoyant Roxy, an Asian Trans woman, in the SBS television production of Hungry Ghosts. It is a role she has relished and has given her the opportunity to champion the diversity landscape on Australian screens and stages.Suzy has begun the return to theatres as stories begin to be told once more. She discusses being back in an auditorium and the glamour and eloquence that contributes to being Suzy WrongThe Stages podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify, Whooshkaa and where all good podcasts are found.

Honey Dijon was born in Chicago and leapt headfirst into the club scene as a teenager. Mentored by house music legends Derrick Carter and Mark Farina, it wasn’t long before she established herself as a world-class club and remix DJ and producer.In 2017, Honey produced her debut album with an array of guests lending their vocals. Aptly named The Best of Both Worlds, the album takes its cues from a plethora of musical references and evades genre. Pretty on-brand for Honey, who renounces gender binaries, lives in two cities (New York and Berlin) and moves in food and fashion circles alongside her musical endeavours.This episode, Drew and Andy welcome Sydney creative director and DJ Belinda O’Brien to take a brief look at the history of house and discuss how Honey Dijon has influenced a generation of DJs, including Belinda herself.Follow the pod on Instagram at @auralfixationpodcast, the boys on @with.all.drew.respect and @andrewdoyouthinkyouare or Belinda on @brlndr.Check out our sister playlist on Spotify for some house-y beats!

Episode Notes YAWWWWNNNNN!!! (big stretch) Oh hey there! Wow I feel well rested. How long did I sleep for? (checks calendar) 2 MONTHS?! Oh my goodness! I can't believe it! Did the world get better while I was out? No? Way worse? Figures. It's so great to have dedicated fans like you who will stick with us like this. Hear us talk about Thundercats or whatever (yawwwwwn) I'm just take 5 more minutes. Check out this weeks sponsor Trans Artist of the Day on twitter at @Trans_Artists.

*** Dial 347.884.8997 to ask a question *** Host William Powell welcomes Trans Entertainment Network founder Stan Lucas and some of his talented peformers, including singer Krystal, Sanaa Raelynn and Yada Baby! Stan Lucas is the founder of Trans Entertainment Network, an Artist Management/Label dedicated solely to Trans Artists and talent. Stan is an alumni of Kennedy-King College and Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois. Stan is a former school teacher where he taught media communications in Chicago and Minneapolis public schools. In 2015 he founded TEN in Atlanta, GA. as a platform for transgender artists to get their music recognized in the mainstream media. TEN's artists have been featured on the hit TV show "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta", which included music and appearances from his clients. TEN and their artist have also been featured in such publications as Spin Magazine, Media Takeout, HuffPost, Cosmopolitan, Playboy and more.  *TRANS ENTERTAINMENT ARTIST MANAGEMENT/LABEL Atlanta/Chicago For Booking and Media Contact Stan Lucas 404 829-5813. https://www.instagram.com/transentertainmentnetwork/ Krystal was born Jan. 2 1988, on the south side of Chicago. Her love for music developed very early and she sang in the choir to express this. Krystal started writing her own music in high school with hopes of recording her own music. She is now living that dream, recording her own music and performing in some of Atlanta's hottest clubs.  

Look at us making it into 2020 with a new episodeeeee! If one of your New Year's Resolutions was to read more then girl you are in LUCK because we're hitting you all with a dope interview with the one and only, Jiaqing Wilson-Yang! Sit back in your New Years glow and tune into our conversation about ancestry, ways to funnel anger, Hazel's perfection, and the meaning of the GOOSE!  Introduction: 0:00 - 4:34 Interview: 4:53 - 59:23 Check out Jiaqing on her Facebook or shoot her an email at jiaqingwilsonyang@gmail.com. Check out other books similarly published by Metonymy Press (https://metonymypress.com/) and Brow Books (https://browbooks.com/). Lastly, you can check out more of Jiaqing's work in Nia King's "Queer and Trans Artists of Color Volume 3" (https://artactivistnia.bigcartel.com/product/queer-trans-artists-of-color-volume-3) LASTLYYYYY, join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Photo by Aileen Imperial Markel Uriu is an interdisciplinary artist based in Seattle, WA. Her work explores impermanence, maintenance, and the unseen. Drawing from her Japanese and Irish-American heritage, she is particularly interested in liminal spaces, and explores these concepts through, research, ephemeral botanical narratives, installations, and two-dimensional work. Her subjects of time, cycles, and cultural interchange have culminated in a fascination with invasive species. Her current work explores the nature of invasive species, their environmental impacts, and their links to humanity, colonialism, and globalization.  Markel received her BA from Whitman College in 2011. She is the recipient of various awards and residencies, most recently the 2018 Amazon Artist in Residence, and the 2016-2017 Artbridge Fellow at Pratt Fine Arts Center. She is a member of the Lion's Main Art Collective for Queer and Trans Artists, Seattle and SOIL Gallery, Seattle, and has shown throughout the United States. Books mentioned in the interview were The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and NW by Zadie Smith.   Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him to keep his anger still in motion. (PNW murmuration)2019Starling skins, starling scansDimensions variableAn accumulative installation contemplating the introduction of the European starling to North America. Eugene Schieffelin, the chairman of the American Acclimatization Society, an organization dedicated to the introduction of European flora and fauna to North America, sought to introduce every bird mentioned in Shakespeare. In 1890, he released 60 starlings in Central Park. The birds survived, and subsequently spread throughout the entirety of the United States. There are now an estimated 150 million inhabiting The United States and parts of Mexico and Canada. 60 starling skins were repeatedly scanned and printed, and added to a growing murmuration throughout the duration of the show. From "An Object Lesson" a solo show at the Hedreen Gallery in Seattle, WAPhoto by Joe Freeman Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him to keep his anger still in motion. (PNW murmuration)2019Starling skins, starling scansDimensions variable, DetailPhoto by Joe Freeman The Human Dimensions of Biotic Homogenization (Pangea Revisited)2019Scans (Narrowleaf plantain, common mallow, common dandelion, chickweed, pigweed, american bullfrog, kudzu, japanese knotweed, himalayan blackberry, human, cat, european rabbit,  common starling, brown rat, house mouse, zebra mussel, asian clam, blue mussel, brown trout, rainbow trout, common carp, largemouth bass, pigweed, wild sage, water hyacinth, red swamp crayfish, grass, european sparrow, and horse tamarind)Dimensions variableA collection of species now present on all, or most continents, scanned, and woven together. Mapping out the emerging global ecosystem. From "An Object Lesson" a solo show at the Hedreen Gallery in Seattle, WAPhoto by Joe Freeman

This week Stan Lucas, Founder of the 'Trans Entertainment Network'(TEN) an Artist Management/Label dedicated solely to Trans Artists and Talent joins us. Stan along with Krystal Beverly, who is an artist with TEN tell us what they are all about, as well as the worrying trend of hate crime attacks on Trans women of colour. Also, Curtis Campion creator of 'New Found Courage', a video game whith an LGBTQ driven story line tells us about the work that has gone into the game and wider representation of LGBTQ characters in mainstream video games. And - Sam talks about the incredible surge in popularity of openly gay Mayor, Pete Buttigieg who is running for the Democratic nomination for President, news of London's first Trans Pride event and the UK retailer which has launched an LGBT sandwich!

www.letsdoitpodcast.com Let’s Do It is a podcast focusing on the practical aspects of sex education and sexual health. In this episode Liz and Alex are talking all about sperm, chatting about some stats and news, and starting a book club! For more information, sexual health links or to submit anonymous questions, visit our website. You can also follow the podcast on Twitter, as well as both Liz and Alex.   References and links: The Genders, Bodies and Relationships PassportQueer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives Current Recommended Treatment for Gonorrhea Still Effective, According to New Study Carcinogenic HPV Type Has Highest Rate of Incidence and Lowest Rate of Clearance Sperm Count Zero The Macho Sperm Myth Unplanned Pregnancy Stats Men Get Sad After Sex. Now We Have a Concrete Answer Why

www.letsdoitpodcast.com Let’s Do It is a podcast focusing on the practical aspects of sex education and sexual health. In this episode Liz and Alex are talking all about sperm, chatting about some stats and news, and starting a book club! For more information, sexual health links or to submit anonymous questions, visit our website. You can also follow the podcast on Twitter, as well as both Liz and Alex.   References and links: The Genders, Bodies and Relationships PassportQueer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives Current Recommended Treatment for Gonorrhea Still Effective, According to New Study Carcinogenic HPV Type Has Highest Rate of Incidence and Lowest Rate of Clearance Sperm Count Zero The Macho Sperm Myth Unplanned Pregnancy Stats Men Get Sad After Sex. Now We Have a Concrete Answer Why

How can we better support the work of queer and trans artists of color? How can self-publishing create cultural conversations by and for marginalized people? How can emerging artists best navigate the tension between wanting to get their work out there while also demanding fair pay for their labor? In Episode 47 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Nia King about how she came to host the podcast We Want the Airwaves, the racial politics of the publishing industry, how she has put her ethnic studies training to work beyond the academy, and why getting queer and trans artists of color paid fairly for their work is a key part of how she imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/47-nia-king

Episode 3 of Print Fold Staple, a podcast about zine culture with Bruce Otter and Melissa Black brought to you by the Denver Zine Library.Bruce and Melissa interview Oakland based zinester, author and multimedia journalist Nia King about her work as an author, speaker and zinester. Nia is a multimedia journalist whose work focuses on political art by women, queer people, and people of color. She is the author of Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives and the host and producer of We Want the Airwaves podcast. Nia Will be appearing at DINK (The Denver Independent Comic & Art Expo) April 8 & 9, 2017.More Informaton about Nia can be found at:Her site: artactivistnia.comOn Social Media:facebook.com/artactivistnia510twitter.com/artactivistnianiaking.tumblr.comBuy her books:artactivistnia.bigcartel.comListen to her podcast – We Want the Airwavesqtpocart.libsyn.comZine related News and Notes:We're thrilled to announce the 2017 Denver Zine Fest!Saturday, June 1710am-5pmCervantes' Masterpiece & The Other Side2635 Welton St, DenverRegistration is now open for tables and the deadline to apply is April 15 see denverzinelibrary.org, or our Facebook page for more details. We'll have more on Print Fold Staple as well so keep listening here.DINK (The Denver Independent Comic & Art Expo) will be April 8 & 9, 2017 at the McNichols Civic Center in Denver, with appearances by Nia King as well as Denis Kitchen, Sara Glidden, and the Hernandez Bros. of Love and Rockets and many, many others.Fore more see: http://dinkdenver.com/ZINES AND CEREALThursday, March 306:30-8:30pmCafe Europa76 Pennsylvania St, Denver$2 for a bowl of cereal and $1 for a cup of coffee. If you bring an unopened box/bag of cereal, you can eat and drink for free! Vegan milk and gluten-free cereals will be available.Local zinesters will be selling their zinesZinesters, are you interested in selling your zines at this event? Tables are $7 each and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact denverzinelibrary@gmail.com for more information.The Denver Zine Library is thrilled about an ongoing venture with WaterCourse Foods, which is now selling zines out of their delicious restaurant! Watercourse Foods is located at 837 East 17th Avenue in Denver see: https://www.watercoursefoods.com/ for more information.- https://denverzinelibrary.org/2016/12/23/zines-at-watercourse-foods/If you have an upcoming event let us know at printfoldstaple@gmail.com and we'll include it in our future announcements!https://denverzinelibrary.org/

Episode 3 of Print Fold Staple, a podcast about zine culture with Bruce Otter and Melissa Black brought to you by the Denver Zine Library.Bruce and Melissa interview Oakland based zinester, author and multimedia journalist Nia King about her work as an author, speaker and zinester. Nia is a multimedia journalist whose work focuses on political art by women, queer people, and people of color. She is the author of Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives and the host and producer of We Want the Airwaves podcast. Nia Will be appearing at DINK (The Denver Independent Comic & Art Expo) April 8 & 9, 2017.More Informaton about Nia can be found at:Her site: artactivistnia.comOn Social Media:facebook.com/artactivistnia510twitter.com/artactivistnianiaking.tumblr.comBuy her books:artactivistnia.bigcartel.comListen to her podcast – We Want the Airwavesqtpocart.libsyn.comZine related News and Notes:We're thrilled to announce the 2017 Denver Zine Fest!Saturday, June 1710am-5pmCervantes' Masterpiece & The Other Side2635 Welton St, DenverRegistration is now open for tables and the deadline to apply is April 15 see denverzinelibrary.org, or our Facebook page for more details. We'll have more on Print Fold Staple as well so keep listening here.DINK (The Denver Independent Comic & Art Expo) will be April 8 & 9, 2017 at the McNichols Civic Center in Denver, with appearances by Nia King as well as Denis Kitchen, Sara Glidden, and the Hernandez Bros. of Love and Rockets and many, many others.Fore more see: http://dinkdenver.com/ZINES AND CEREALThursday, March 306:30-8:30pmCafe Europa76 Pennsylvania St, Denver$2 for a bowl of cereal and $1 for a cup of coffee. If you bring an unopened box/bag of cereal, you can eat and drink for free! Vegan milk and gluten-free cereals will be available.Local zinesters will be selling their zinesZinesters, are you interested in selling your zines at this event? Tables are $7 each and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact denverzinelibrary@gmail.com for more information.The Denver Zine Library is thrilled about an ongoing venture with WaterCourse Foods, which is now selling zines out of their delicious restaurant! Watercourse Foods is located at 837 East 17th Avenue in Denver see: https://www.watercoursefoods.com/ for more information.- https://denverzinelibrary.org/2016/12/23/zines-at-watercourse-foods/If you have an upcoming event let us know at printfoldstaple@gmail.com and we'll include it in our future announcements!https://denverzinelibrary.org/

Queer & Trans Artists of Color Vol 2 A celebration of queer and trans black and brown genius...building on the groundbreaking first volume, Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives, Nia King is back with a second archive of interviews from her podcast We Want the Airwaves. She maintains her signature frankness as an interviewer while seeking advice on surviving capitalism from creative folks who often find their labor devalued. In this collection of interviews, Nia discusses biphobia in gay men's communities with Juba Kalamka, helping border-crossers find water in the desert with Micha Cardenas, trying to preserve Indigenous languages through painting with Grace Rosario Perkins, revolutionary monster stories with Elena Rose, using textiles to protest police violence with Indira Allegra, trying to respectfully reclaim one's own culture with Amir Rabiyah, taking on punk racism with Mimi Thi Nguyen, the imminent trans women of color world takeover with Lexi Adsit, queer life in WWII Japanese American incarceration camps with Tina Takemoto, hip-hop and Black Nationalism with Ajuan Mance, making music in exile with Martin Sorrondeguy, issue-based versus identity-based organizing with Trish Salah, ten years of curating and touring with the QTPOC arts organization Mangos With Chili with Cherry Galettte, raising awareness about gentrification through games with Mattie Brice, self-publishing versus working with a small press with Vivek Shreya, and the colonial nature of journalism school with Kiley May. The conversation continues. Bear witness to QTPOC brilliance. Included in the evening will be performances by:  Ryka Aoki is the author of Seasonal Velocities, He Mele a Hilo (A Hilo Song) and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul. She has been honored by the California State Senate for her “extraordinary commitment to free speech and artistic expression, as well as the visibility and well-being of Transgender people. Ryka was the inaugural performer for the first ever Transgender Stage at San Francisco Pride, and has performed in venues including the San Francisco Pride Main Stage, the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival, the National Queer Arts Festival, and Ladyfest South. Ryka also appears in the recent documentaries “Diagnosing Difference” and “Riot Acts.” She has MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and is the recipient of a University Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is a professor of English at Santa Monica College.Winner of the People Before Profits Poetry Prize, Meliza Bañales aka Missy Fuego is the author of Say It With Your Whole Mouth (Poems) and the Xicana-Punk-Rock-Coming-of-Age novel Life Is Wonderful, People Are Terrific which was a 2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. She was a fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area spoken-word and slam communities from 1996-2010, where she became the first Xicana to win a poetry slam championship in 2002. She is a Visiting Professor of Literature and Counter-Culture at UC San Diego and the feature film of her novel is currently in pre-production in Los Angeles.Nadia Ann Abou-Karr is an artist, writer and practitioner of holistic healing arts. She has been self publishing her own zines since middle school, with the most recent being THE ICONOCLAST Revolutionary Love series which highlights the complexities and confusion that arise from loving in the 5th dimension. Ultimately she always come back to the realization that self love is the best kind, and she uses all of her creative production to create an optimal climate for free love.Kim Tillman is an LA-based singer/songwriter, lead singer of the band Tragic Gadget and half of the music duo Kim Tillman & Silent Films. Her songs have been featured in film and television including American Girl: Saige Paints the Sky, the 2014 documentary feature Off the Floor, on Love & Hip Hop Atlanta and the ABC Family series Switched at Birth. Armed with a honey-velvet voice and precise, evocative lyrics, she aims simply to move you. Praise for Queer & Trans Artists of Color Vol 2 “Nia King’s essential project is about demystifying the artist’s life, and centering expression at the heart of radically diverse QTPOC lives. This second volume of artists’ voices is full of heart and wisdom, struggle and triumph. Another must-read for anyone dedicated to living creatively.” —Jeff Chang, author of Who We Be and We Gon’ Be Alright“With all the talk in the entertainment industry about a lack of diverse voices in our media, Nia King does the big work that is necessary to rescue the entertainment industry from itself. She is going out there to highlight these voices, not because they are diverse, but because they are absolutely necessary.” —W. Kamau Bell, host of United Shades of America“Queer and Trans Artists of Color, Volume 2 continues to amplify beautiful voices that need to be heard. Refreshingly honest and illuminating, these interviews combine to form a powerful statement on the journey of the artist, and the person behind the art, towards creating a world where we can all thrive as our true selves.” —Mat Johnson, author of Loving Day and Pym“Nia King once again provides a vital space where LGBTQ artists of color can share their unique experiences working in their creative fields. This volume, like its predecessor, will be a must-read for years to come.” —Hari Kondabolu, writer and comedian“This book shines a spotlight on QTPOC artists, activists and self-proclaimed weirdos, a group who rarely receive such attention. Through fluid and compelling conversations with King, readers learn about the creative processes, identities, organizing, and politics that inform their art. This is a beautiful archive as well as a rich source of information for creative people seeking inspiration.” —Farzana Doctor, author of All Inclusive and Six Metres of Pavement“In this new volume Nia King continues the invaluable work of amplifying the voices and interrogating the ideas of a new generation of joyous, committed creators. If you want to know who is shaping the culture of the next century, this is a book you must have: a book brimming with honesty, intelligence and heart.” —Nayland Blake, artist and professor“This book is a revolutionary literary gesture, providing both practical information to artists and also doing the work of expanding the archive. I love the way that King brings interviews to the page, disseminating artists’ knowledge while also creating a window into their language and lives. The honesty of the unscripted conversations feels both intimate and subversive.”—Virgie Tovar, author of Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion Nia King is a queer Black, Lebanese, Hungarian, and Jewish artist and activist from Canton, Massachusetts living in Oakland, California. She is the author of Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives and the host and producer of We Want the Airwaves podcast. Her writing and comics have been published in Colorlines, East Bay Express and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She has spoken about her work at schools and conferences such as Stanford University, Swarthmore College, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Facing Race, the Allied Media Conference, and the National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference. You can find more of her work at artactivistnia.com and contact her at NiaKing@zoho.com. Elena Rose, a Filipina-Ashkenazi trans lesbian mestiza, rode stories out of rural Oregon and hasn’t stopped telling since. As an ordained minister, writer, and organizer, she has been published in magazines including Aorta and Make/shift, co-founded the Speak! Radical Women of Color Media Collective, co-curated the acclaimed National Queer Arts Festival show Girl Talk: A Trans and Cis Women’s Dialogue, works as a nationally-recognized interfaith educator on justice issues, and serves on the boards of the Solar Cross Temple and the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples. She can be contacted at takingsteps@gmail.comand on Twitter @burnlittlelight.

In this talk-show style live podcast recording, Nia interviews Elena Rose about how Sojourner Truth NEVER said "Ain't I a woman?", Juba Kalamka about meeting Kanye when he was fifteen, Lexi Adsit about running an all trans women of color comedy program, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about the perks of making it "big time". Read the transcription at scribd.com/artactivistnia. Support the podcast at patreon.com/artactivistnia.

Ryan read: He Mele A Hilo - Ryka Aoki Sarah read: Push - Sapphire Other Books/Authors Discussed: Jodi Picoult Jennifer Weiner Nicholas Sparks E. Lynn Harris Seasonal Velocities -Ryka Aoki Delores Claiborne - Stephen King Misery - Stephen King A Little Life - Hanya Yanigahara Queer and Trans Artists of Color - Nia King