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Queer and trans artists of color : stories of some of our lives
Publication Information
Wilmington, Delaware : [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], [2014-2016]
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 23 cm
Summary
Volume 1. A collection of sixteen unique and honest conversations you won't read anywhere else... Mixed-race queer art activist Nia King left a full-time job in an effort to center her life around making art. Grappling with questions of purpose, survival, and compromise, she started a podcast called We Want the Airwaves in order to pick the brains of fellow queer and trans artists of color about their work, their lives, and "making it"--both in terms of success and in terms of survival. In this collection of interviews, Nia discusses fat burlesque with Magnoliah Black, queer fashion with Kiam Marcelo Junio, interning at Playboy with Janet Mock, dating gay Latino Republicans with Julio Salgado, intellectual hazing with Kortney Ryan Ziegler, gay gentrification with Van Binfa, getting a book deal with Virgie Tovar, the politics of black drag with Micia Mosely, evading deportation with Yosimar Reyes, weird science with Ryka Aoki, gay public sex in Africa with Nick Mwaluko, thin privilege with Fabian Romero, the tyranny of "self-care" with Lovemme Corazón, "selling out" with Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tik, the self-employed art activist hustle with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, and much, much more. Welcome to the future of QPOC art activism.
Volume 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 CÁRDENAS, 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 MARTÍN 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 GALETTE, 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.
Notes
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Contents
- Volume 1. Foreword / Toi Scott
- Introduction / Nia King
- Interviews. Ryka Aoki
- Van Binfa
- Micia Mosely
- Yosimar Reyes
- Kortney Ryan Ziegler
- Lovemme Corazón
- Fabian Romero
- Magnoliah Black
- Kiam Marcelo Junio
- Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tik
- Virgie Tovar
- Julio Salgado
- Nick Mwaluko
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha
- Janet Mock
- Nia King
- Bios.
- Volume 2. Foreword by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Introduction by Nia King
- [Interviews]: Juba Kalamka
- Dr. micha cárdenas
- Elena Rose
- Indira Allegra
- Amir Rabiyah
- Mimi Thi Nguyen
- Lexi Adsit --Tina Takemoto
- Ajuan Mance
- Martín Sorrondeguy
- Trish Salah
- Cherry Galette
- Mattie Brice
- Vivek Shraya
- Kiley May
- Artist Bios.