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Art work
by Alix Kolar showing two people breathing fire.
Art Work by Alix Kolar

Some of our PAST PROJECTS:

Our final project, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine.

Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.

Click here for more information.


Download Racism at the TransMission Festival(PDF)

Racism at the TransMission Festival(Text File)

A zine documenting racism in the organizing of the 2004 TransMission Festival in Victoria, BC. This zine compiles emails exchanged between the organizers of the TransMission Festival and anti-racist Queer, Trans, and GenderQueer organizers.


Download Gender Glossary (PDF)

Gender Glossary(Text File)

This may give you a clearer idea of some the words being used in the current Transgender, Genderqueer, and other gender variant communities.


Anti-Racism for White Folks: An Interactive Workshop

This workshop uses interactive theater techniques (Theater of the Oppressor) to explore issues of white supremacy, power, privilege, allyship and accountability in the trans movement.
Sponsored by RESYST Seattle and A Territory Resource.
Facilitated by Colin Kennedy Donovan.

Victoria, BC. Canada.
Saturday, May 29 2004.


Anti-Racism for White GLBTQ Folks: An Interactive Workshop
Facilitated by Colin Kennedy Donovan

This day-long intensive used a participatory theater form created for non-actors, Theater of the Oppressor (TOP) to explore issues of white privilege, power and racism in the white GLBTQ community. Adapted from Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed, TOP creates a tangible arena to examine allyship, interruption/perpetuation of everyday racism, and societal systems of power.
Co-Sponsored by American Friends Service Committee
April 3, 2004


SCARS TELL STORIES: Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Performance and Community Forum November 19, 2003
Featuring: Colin Kennedy Donovan, Qwo-Li Driskill, Louis Cruz, billie rain
SCARS TELL STORIES: (Dis)ability, Writing, and Activism
Fall, 2003.
This 4-week course focused on our experiences as Queer/GLBT people with physcial, psychological, emotional, and cognative (dis)abilities.



Voices out of the Fire: Race, Writing and Queer Youth Activism Spring, 2001.
This 10-week course focused on our experiences as Queer/GLBT youth of color and used writing as a tool to tell our stories.

Read work from Voices out of the Fire! poets,
basiL, billie and Colin.


OUT/RAGE/US: RESYST/Revolutionary Voices Road Trip
October 11 & 12, 2000.

Book reading & release of Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology edited by Amy Sonnie. (Alyson: 2000).
A Day of rabble-rousing workshops featuring local activists from POCAAN, Q-Patrol, and Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities.
Poetry, Spoken Word and Performance featuring Cathy Biell, Colin Kennedy Donovan, Qwo-Li Driskill, Hellery Homosex, Jaedon, Ronica Mukerjee, Marcel Parker,Tsi-ge'-yu Sharp, and Fran Varian.

 



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