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Edna Vazquez | Photo credit Tania Gómez-Daza
Edna Vázquez is a fearless artist and songwriter whose powerful voice and musical talent transcend the boundaries of language with songs deeply rooted in universal human emotion. She has traveled far and wide spreading her message of light, love and cultural healing.
Learn moreElliott Young is a Professor in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College. Professor Young is the author of Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System, Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through WWII, and Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, as well as co-editor of Continental Crossroads: Remapping US-Mexico Borderlands History. He is a co-founder of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, the Migration Scholar Collaborative (MiSC), and the Migration and Asylum Lab (MAL) at Stanford University. He has also provided expert witness testimony for over 600 asylum cases and was a co-chair of the Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing (PCCEP).
Learn moreEm Koyama is a multi-issue social justice activist and writer synthesizing feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, sex worker, intersex, genderqueer, and crip politics, as these factors, while not a complete descriptor of who she is, all impacted her life. Emi is currently the Coordinatrix of the Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade, a network of about 20 community groups in Seattle/King County area, Washington promoting rights and safety for people in the sex trade through public education and policy change.
Learn moreEmily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Originally from Alaska, she is currently based in Minneapolis. Since 1998 she has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as installations, engaging audiences within and through a space and environment—interacting with a place's architecture, history, and role in community. Her work is currently supported by Creative Capital, Map Fund, a Joyce Award and The Doris Duke Residency to Build Demand for the Arts. Emily is a 2013 Institute for Advanced Study Fellow at the University of Minnesota, a 2012 Headlands Center for the Arts and MacDowell Artist in Residence, a Native Arts and Cultures Fellow (2011), a MANCC Choreographer Fellow (2009/2010/2012), a MAP Fund Grant recipient (2009/2010/2012/2013), and McKnight Fellow (2009). She received a 2012 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Performance for her work, The Thank-you Bar, at New York Live Arts. Her current work, Niicugni, is touring to Florida State University/MANCC/Seven Days of Opening Nights, Coil Festival/PS122/Baryshnikov Arts Center (NYC), Redfern Arts Center at Keene State (NH), Arizona State University, Tigertail (Miami), Northrop Auditorium (MN), PICA (Portland, OR) and Bunnell Street Gallery (AK).
Selected Press
"Shedding Light on the Last Frontier," Gia Kourlas, The New York Times, January 4, 2013.
"Emily Johnson in Conversation with Ain Gordon," Movement Research Critical Correspondance, January 9, 2013.
Call & Response: Spandex and Basketballs, Emily Johnson, Mental Contagion, July/August 2008.
Learn moreEv Echovia is a mixed white passing queer non-binary femme artist and FSSW living in the Mojave desert on stolen Serrano/Chemehuevi land also known as Joshua Tree, CA. Their work focuses on acknowledging complexities of sex work and erotic liberation at the intersections of somatic healing, queer survival, and ancestral magic. They play and explore within mystical realms as a response to cultural grief & trauma, isolation, stigma, precarity, and to dream deeper into themes of autonomy, love and collective transformation. Their intention is to reclaim and reanimate narratives attached to bodies and lineages known and unknown and to echo a prayer of vitality and protection to whores, edgewalkers and the Earth itself across time and space. Ev is the co-creator of Tempt Fest ~ A queer erotic film fest in Southern California. They facilitate performance art and ritual centered community gatherings and they are also a Sexological Bodyworker with an interest in reproductive justice and sexual healing for all people existing on the margins.
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Learn moreEvie Snax is a multimedia digital visual artist, curator, hustler, sex magik worker, and queer indie porn enthusiast casting spells of self-love and liberation. Her work reflects her experience as a queer mixed Chinese-American/white femme and looks and feels like it does because she is a fresh millennial slut with keyboard fingertips. Her gifs center QTBIPoC and sex workers in a vibrant contemporary fantasy free of binaries, shame, and oppression. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally from Moore College of Art and Design to the Taiwan International Queer Film Festival. Currently she is co-producing Hot Bits, a touring sex-positive film and arts festival in its 4th year. She is also a recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award, is a CFEVA Visual Artist Fellow, and Elsewhere Exchange Fellow. Follow her on ig @snaxho_ and view her portfolio at snax.wtf/evie for more.
Learn morePhilip Edward King lives in Portland, Oregon, USA. Their interdisciplinary work deals with questions surrounding the loosely defined term "human nature" juxtaposed with themes of crisis unique to the 20th and 21st centuries.
Learn moreTristen Edwards is an attorney at Metropolitan Public Defender, where she represents individuals charged with major felony crimes and works on policy issues related to promoting the use of restorative justice as an alternative to prosecution. Tristen is a Coordinating Committee Member of the Restorative Justice Coalition of Oregon and leads the coalition’s legislative advocacy efforts. She also serves on Governor Kotek’s Racial Justice Council’s Criminal Justice Reform Committee and chairs the Council’s Subcommittee on the Department of Corrections, which focuses on supporting restorative justice efforts led by incarcerated men. Tristen holds a strong commitment to diversity and is the founder and chair of the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Tristen has been recognized for her work amplifying the voices of marginalized people and promoting effective and compassionate responses to harm by the Oregon New Lawyers Division, the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association, and Oregon Women Lawyers.
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