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Where? USA – Pennsylvania – Philadelphia
What? Mixed Media Art
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Megan Potoma
where? USA – Pennsylvania – Philadelphia
what? Collage, Mixed-Media, Feminist Art
Diversity in Education
text by: Jonathan Daniel // USA || illustration by: Elizabeth Watkin // USA
I can’t feel. I thought – I had reached my limits, but now – little spheres in onyx tones – surround me pulsing, – pulsing in an expanse – of tepid indigo,
Jonathan Daniel
Where? USA – Missouri – Kansas City
What? Composer, Singer, Musicologist, Social-Media Creator
Her Choice
text by: Nikola Italo // Argentina || illustration by: Megan Potoma // USA
My name is Nikola Italo. Well, that’s not my real name, but in many ways, that’s me. I am Nikola when I write, when I tell stories. I was Nikola when I discovered what being a feminist means. Now I am one.
What (Is) It Like…?
text by: GVGK Tang // USA || illustration by: tom moore // Germany
The ambience shifts. What looked like a stilted high school dance – stagnant bodies strewn awkwardly across a dance floor – now feels like an Ivy League dining club. The white male old heads all know each other and group off.
AcoustiQueers
Where? USA – New York State – New York
What? Concert Series
Evan Westfal
Where? Canada – Alberta
What? Singing || Songwriting
Have You Been a Good Girl?
text by: Elizabeth Watkin // USA || screenshot: from Elizabeth’s film
The video combines poetry and film to explore and challenge the constraints forced upon women as they grow up: How we blame women for being who they are and blame them when they diverge from who they are expected to be.
Q. K. Miroux
Where? USA – Virginia – Virginia Beach
What? Writing || Filmmaking ||Visual Art
John McAllister
Where? Canada – British Columbia – Vancouver
What? Writing || Editing || Photography
MARVAL A. REX
Where? USA – California – Los Angeles
What? Writing || Film making || Music Production & more
Pelican Bomb
Where? USA
Title: Queer Traces: Transnational Queer Underground’s #TheGalleryProject
Ambika Thompson
What? Photography
Where? Germany || Canada
I only started really getting into photography when I moved to Berlin. For a few years I only […]
Dion Hitchings
What? Mixed media art
Where? USA
I purposely choose to use untraditional media. I create my works with various children’s art supplies […]
Felix d’Eon
What? Drawings
Where? Mexico || USA
D’Eon treats vintage illustrative styles as a rhetorical strategy, using their language of romance, economic power […]
Frances Enyedy
What? Drawing, painting
Where? Germany || Canada
I’m an artist from Canada currently residing in Berlin. Attracted to anything queer, feminist, sensual […]
Jespa Jacob Smith
What? Drawing, Painting, Video
Where? Germany || Canada
Jespa Jacob Smith is a DIY-visual artist and poet. Their work focusses on transitional and surreal […]
Kamee Abrahamian
What? Mixed media art
Where? Canada
My intention is to disrupt the status quo; to create work that digs into and unsilences a millefeuille […]
Megan Potoma
What? Multidisciplinary
Where? USA
My work is my coming out story. My paintings, sculptures, and drawings are intimate responses to my need […]
Narong Tintamusik
What? Drawing, painting
Where? USA
The thoughts about contracting venereal disease lingers within me. To have both sexual anxiety and the need […]
Zac Slams [explicit]
What? Collages
Where? UK || USA
Zac Slams cuts up images and texts to depict gender and sexuality as ways to escape oppression but also […]
Ketch Wehr
What? Comic, Painting, Illustration
Where? Italy || USA
Ketch Wehr is a Rome-based artist with a flair for the feral. He is an FTM transfeminist identified queer […]
Lee Fleming
What? Mixed media paintings
Where? USA
Lee Fleming is a New Orleans-born genderqueer activist, academic, graphic designer, and multi-media artist […]
Marval A Rex
What? Object Performance and Sexy Time
Where? Spain || USA
Marval A Rex is a dynamic force. With a loud Los Angeles aesthetic, he currently lives in New York as a […]
On Being a Queer Musician
text by: Kat Hamilton // USA || photo by: Manic Pixi // USA
First of all, I love the term “Queer”. There is something unifying and inclusive about it. It covers a lot of ground. In the past year, I’ve really taken to identifying as queer vs. gay or lesbian. I hear it often in the music scene especially.
The Jobs I’ve Found on Craigslist
text by: Anna Geary-Meyer // Germany || photo by: Verena Spilker // Germany
The second job I find on Craigslist is wiping the butt of a three-year-old whose favorite food is salami. No one tells me three-year-olds need help on the toilet, so this comes as a surprise. We get in a fight over the last bread roll one afternoon and I quit.
LGBT FILM FESTIVALS Canada – which one do you like best?
Looking for somewhere to submit your films? Want to watch the lates queer movies? Find all relevant queer film festivals on TQU. Big, small, short-film, feature film, documentary and more. Some self-organized some commercial. See all LGBT film festivals in Canada.
Film Festivals USA
Black Alphabet Film Festival Birmingham Shout Boston LGBT Film Festival Cinekink NYC Cinema Diverse – The Palm Springs Gay and Lesbian Film Festival CineSLAM – Vermont’s LGBT Short Films Festival Cinema St. Louis Qfest...
LGBT Organizations South Asia – do you know all of them?
LGBT organizations in South Asia on TRANSNATIONAL QUEER UNDERGROUND. Find out more about the work they are doing. Find other LGBT organizations from all around the world. TQU is connecting the LGBT world.
BLACK VELVET: A DIRECTOR’S GUIDE TO QUEER UNDERGROUND HOLLYWOOD
article by: Tobias Daniels // USA || photo by: Mark Stuplin // USA
Directing my first feature documentary, Black Velvet, taught me what I was capable of as a filmmaker. It also opened the door to conversations with other
Burned by the Stake
text by: Ambika Thompson // Canada || illustration by: tom moore // Germany
I was passing through the main square of a village, selling pelts so I could feed all the children I have at home, when a man tried to stick his hand up my skirt. Without hesitation I slapped him in the face
Trans In Prison
text by: Calvin Gimpelevich // USA || illustration by: solundurraga & mujer gallina // Chile
What we know is there are trans people and there are prisons and sometimes the two overlap. It happens all over, but I’m from California, so let’s talk about the US.
bell’s roar – a loud and persistent voice in the fight for social justice
questions by: Verena Spilker // Germany || answers + photo by: bell’s roar // USA
bell’s roar is the music project of Sean Desiree. Originally from the Bronx in New York City, she now lives Upstate in Albany with her family, where she’s involved in various projects.
Perfume Genius on pigs, kids and fame
questions by: Mareike Lütge & Verena Spilker // Germany || photo by: Jason Harrell // Germany
It’s changed. I mean, you know, the first album was a very manic feeling. It needed to come out and I was just doing it for myself. The second album was still personal, but I knew that there were going to be listeners. I kept them in mind while I was writing.
Roseus Lupus
text by: Janielle Love Williams // USA || illustration by: Verena Spilker // Germany
I’m the descendent of a lineage of lycanthropes. As far back as we can trace, the Martins have shed their human coats at midnight of the full moon and roamed the night in packs. Shape shifting is an ability granted only after puberty. Needless to say I spent my childhood in anticipation.
Jay Brannan on Gummy Bears and new languages
questions by: Verena Spilker // Germany || answers + photo by: Jay Brannan // USA
I’m actually using the same guitar that I recorded that soda shop video with, and when I record, I do it in someone else’s studio, or rent studio time and an engineer. So honestly, I haven’t upgraded any equipment since starting.