Queer I Am 2016
Joshua Magallanes has a critical analysis about adolescent development for queer individuals happening later in life. As individuals get older they experience “gay adolescence,” a time when one is experimenting while trying to find community. We are creative and tactical; we are forced to lead double lives while at the same time feeding just enough of ourselves in order to survive. Joshua earned his Bachelor of Science from Northern Arizona University and his Masters in Community Counseling from Seattle University. Joshua explores the societal constructs placed on communities of color and Queer communities as a way to continue to raise awareness and create change. Joshua has spoken and led workshops at the Students of Color conference, Annual American Counseling Association and Black and Brown Male Summit. Joshua serves as committee chair for the LGBTQIA Task Force at Highline Community College and served on the board of directors for Gay City Men’s Health Project. Currently a faculty member at Highline College teaches courses including “The LGBTQI Experience”. Joshua believes the developmental process is never a road that is paved or less traveled; the way we travel it and experience it are what makes us marvel at the amazing products along the way.~
Fabian Romero is a Queer Indigenous writer originally from Michoacan, Mexico. They co-founded several writing and performance groups including Hijas de Su Madre, Las Mamalogues and Mixed Messages: Stories by People of Color. Their work can be found in Troubling the Line: Trans and
Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of
Some of our Lives and in the near future in To The Exclusion of All
Others: Queers Questioning Gay Marriage.Since 2007 they have performed
throughout North America. They have a BA at Evergreen State College with a
focus in creative writing.
Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of
Some of our Lives and in the near future in To The Exclusion of All
Others: Queers Questioning Gay Marriage.Since 2007 they have performed
throughout North America. They have a BA at Evergreen State College with a
focus in creative writing.
Sister Glo Euro N’Wei is a Seattle-based queer health advocate, femme faerie, poet and nun. She believes that the most radical and revolutionary act is learning to love our queer selves. She is drawn to sparkly objects and seeks to embody the transformative power of glitter and love in action. As a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan, Sister Glo has been nunning her way through Seattle’s queer nonprofit scene for way more than a decade, raising thousands of dollars for charities, and spreading love, joy and smiles.
Founded in 1996, The Abbey of St. Joan is Seattle’s official order of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Our mission reads: We are an order of 21st Century nuns dedicated to the promulgation of universal joy and the expiation of stigmatic guilt. We work to raise money for AIDS charities; fight for queer rights and visibility; do safer sex outreach; and strive diligently to maintain our sense of humor, never taking ourselves so seriously that we forget to have fun. We gladly welcome all races, creed, genders and sexual orientations.
Founded in 1996, The Abbey of St. Joan is Seattle’s official order of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Our mission reads: We are an order of 21st Century nuns dedicated to the promulgation of universal joy and the expiation of stigmatic guilt. We work to raise money for AIDS charities; fight for queer rights and visibility; do safer sex outreach; and strive diligently to maintain our sense of humor, never taking ourselves so seriously that we forget to have fun. We gladly welcome all races, creed, genders and sexual orientations.
MissTANGQ is a multi-media synesthetic artist and first-generation mystic-nerd. She is deeply inspired by the hyphenated experience and explores this through visual art, installation, fashion and DJing to create cross-sensory and multi-disciplinary work. She is a traveler in the margins and crossroads of both identity and the terrestrial to astral experience. She believes in the fertile power of these places to remix our perceptions of and connection to the world. She loves to sing on her bike and plot what she's going to eat next. Dancing is one of her favorite forms of space travel.
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