Five trans New Yorkers share stories in celebration of trans pride. Plus open mic slots – prepare a 5-minute story & put your name in the hat for a chance to share your story!
$10-15 voluntary donation, no one turned away due to lack of funds. Benefits the Lorena Borjas Community Fund, which helps primarily low-income trans women immigrants avoid the collateral consequences associated with criminal convictions, jail time and court appearances.
Doors at 6:30 pm, Stories at 7 pm
Please RSVP h...
Five trans New Yorkers share stories in celebration of trans pride. Plus open mic slots – prepare a 5-minute story & put your name in the hat for a chance to share your story!
$10-15 voluntary donation, no one turned away due to lack of funds. Benefits the Lorena Borjas Community Fund, which helps primarily low-income trans women immigrants avoid the collateral consequences associated with criminal convictions, jail time and court appearances.
Doors at 6:30 pm, Stories at 7 pm
Please RSVP here or to TransPrideNYC@gmail.com. All welcome.
THE MC (and storyteller):
RED DURKIN is the managing editor of PrettyQueer.com and one the most promising young queer comics in the country. She has toured extensively as part of the Tranny Roadshow, performed at Camp Trans and the Transgender Leadership Summit and was a member of the Fully Functional Cabaret. She has written 9 zines, was featured in the final issue of Punk Planet magazine and Topside Press‘s The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard.
THE STORYTELLERS:
KIT YAN is a Brooklyn, NY spoken word artist from Hawaii. Kit’s poetry has been reviewed in New York, Bitch, Curve, and Hyphen magazines and he has toured internationally with Sister Spit, The Tranny Roadshow, and Good Asian Drivers. Kit’s work has recently been featured in Flicker and Spark and Troubling the Line two new queer and transgender poetry anthologies and has a forthcoming book with Transgenre Press.
JANET MOCK is a writer and the Girl behind #Girlslikeus, a pro-sisterhood visibility project for trans women. Since sharing her story in 2011, Janet has appeared on NPR, the Melissa Harris-Perry show and the upcoming HBO documentary The Out List, and has been recognized by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the Center for American Progress, the Women's Media Center and GOOD magazine for her work. She's currently at work on a memoir about womanhood, coming February 2014 via Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. A native of Honolulu, Janet lives and writes in NYC with her boyfriend Aaron and their cockapoo Cleo. Follow her on Twitter at @janetmock.
SASHA ALEXANDER. GOLDBERG is an adopted, mixed race Black/South Asian, queer, trans*, Media Educator, Facilitator, Artist, and Community Organizer. He is the founder of Black Trans Media, a project developing community resources and visibility for the black trans community. Over the last 13 years he has built and collaborated with local and national youth empowerment, social justice, and media organizations working for gender, economic, and racial justice including GLSEN, the GSA Network, Trans Rights Education and Empowerment, the Brown Boi Project, and many more in community! Sasha is a published writer on trans-racial adoption and identity. Sasha is committed to creating and supporting media that empowers our peoples, and practicing healing/justice based work.
CECILIA M. GENTILI is a Trans-Latina original from Argentina by way of Miami. Cecilia has worked at the Gender Identity Project at the LGBT Center since 2011, as a volunteer, intern, and now consultant, facilitating groups, organizing, and working on prevention, harm reduction and self-empowerment, focusing mostly on undocumented Trans-Latinas. She is currently the Trans*Health Care Coordinator at APICHA. She received her education at the Nacional University of Rosario in Music studies and worked as a music teacher for special needs children.
Organized by NOAH LEWIS, trans rights attorney & PAUL VANDECARR, author of "Storytelling and Social Change."