TRANSFABULOUS FESTIVAL 08
June 13th - 15th
Friday Night Show
IGNACIO RIVERA
Ignacio Rivera is a Queer Trans-Entity, Black Boricua performance artist. Ze is a lecturer, activist, self-proclaimed sex educator and sex worker.
Ze is the founder of Poly Patao Productions, is dedicated to producing sex-positive workshops, performance pieces, play parties, panel discussions, teach-ins, social/political groups and educational opportunities that are specially geared toward queer women, transgender, multi-gender, gender-queer, gender non-conforming and gender variant folx of color.
Ze has currently embarked on a film project, "Shades of Kink" a series of educational/documentary style films around inserting a racial/class/sexual orientation and gender analysis into the Kink world. Ignacio is also one of the founding board member of Queers for Economic Justice, a progressive non-profit organization committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation.
Last but not least, Ignacio is also a mother to a wonderful daughter.
Ignacio's website Ignacio on myspaceJason Elvis Barker
Besides working with Serge Nicholson on Transfabulous, Jason has been performing comedy stuff for the last couple of years. He also draws comics and makes films. Recently, he's been putting it all together and has started making animations - watch this space!