Come celebrate Trans Day of Resilience with MWTSN and the Southside Speakeasy on the 20th, join us at 8 PM, at 3529 Fairview Industrial Dr SE in Salem for a drag show and to look forward to our future! This is a donation based event, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds!Featuring performers from the Haus of Dharma and the Haus of MacPherson: Carmen Sutra, Alastor Delfiend, Frisky MacPherson and Sterling MacPherson!
And our Keynote Yola Gómez: Yola Gómez is a first generation queer Xicanx trans activist and writer. Growing up on the US-Mexico border Yola has sought to use his experiences as a means to agitate, educate, and organize with others. in 2019 Yola graduated with an MFA in creative writing from Oregon state University. Soon after in 2020, he won Flying Ketchup's Hybrid Manuscript Award for their unpublished book. We've Always Been Weeping and Searching for the Dead. His work has been featured in Puro Chicanx writers of the 21st Century and the forthcoming anthology, Weeping Women: The Haunting Presence of La Llorona in Mexican and Chicanx Lore. His work appears in literary journals including Entropy, Nat. Brut. Utterance, and Cutthroat. He has co-authored in Mass Incarceration in the 21st Century Realities and Reflections as well as in Abolition Feminisms Vol. 2: Feminist Ruptures against the Carceral State. Yola defines himself as an academic outsider and fugitive literary saboteur keeping his sights set on abolition. His research includes, but is not limited to, sex work, prison abolition, and mental health. Yola is a PhD student at Oregon State University in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
Event Venue
Southside Speakeasy, 3529 Fairview Industrial Dr SE, Salem, OR 97302-1155, United States
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