TransFire Artists In Residence Present: Works in Progress

Our 2023-24 TransFire Artists are fire!!! TransFire: Works In Progress is an opportunity to get a sneak peek behind the scenes of what our artists are uncovering and developing in their residency. This potent hour will feature the brilliant work of: Venus Kii, Anjali, Troy Rockett, Misty Mausi, and jayvie song.

Artists Bios 

Venus Kii Thomas (xe/xym)is a Black queer autistic multigender trans femme from Occupied Choctaw Territory, commonly known as Baton Rouge, Louisiana, living on Occupied Piscataway/Susquehannock Territory (Baltimore, Maryland). A writer, multidisciplinary artist, sex worker, land steward, and abolitionist, xyr practice has led xym to performing and presenting in many community art spaces, festivals, workshops, & universities throughout the colonized United States. Venus also serves as a founding creative team member of the Heaux History Project, a collective working to document and preserve the history and legacies of Black, Brown, and Indigenous sex workers through multimedia. Learn more…