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The third annual Trans100 event, held Sunday at Chicago’s Mayne Stage and live-streamed with support in part from Lambda Legal, recognized the work of out trans people who, in the words of cofounder Jen Richards, “are working on trans issues in the United States and having a positive impact.”
Trans activists, journalists, professors, photographers, researchers, performers, clergy, sex workers, and others were selected on this basis, according to TheTrans100.com : “What is this nominee doing to make life better for the trans community?”
In a press release, Richards said those nominated are “intentionally curated” by anonymous volunteers. Codirectors Rebecca King and Crispin Torres said in a statement it is not intended to be an award show: “It is not a list of the 'Best' or the 'Most Important' trans people. It is not a popularity contest and there are many individuals absent from the list who are doing excellent work. More are no longer with us.”
Torres was among those who made the list this year. While praise for the program was nearly universal, Transgriot’s Monica Roberts tweeted an observation on the list’s large number of Chicagoans:
Trans social justice teacher and performance artist Precious Davis cohosted the event with her fiancé, trans outreach coordinator Myles Brady, who himself was named to the Trans100 this year.
A trans woman and a trans man each gave a stirring keynote speech: Lana Wachowski , one of the directors of the Matrix movies and Cloud Atlas , told those assembled and watching online, “Our tribe is part of every tribe; there is no normal. To be different is ultimately what it means to be human.”
Earlier, media advocate and strategist Tiq Milan cautioned the audience, “We have to be more concerned with building maps to the future than monuments to ourselves.” He also moved the audience with the story of his coming-out — “It wasn't about coming out, it was about inviting them in” — and how his mother embraced him as her son, even correcting someone misgendering him with one of her last breaths.
Also at the venue, three trans musicians performed: Against Me! lead singer Laura Jane Grace rocked the house, Carnegie Hall violinist Tona Brown stirred the crowd with her strings, and hip-hop rapper Rocco Katastrophe had fans on their feet.
Here are those selected as the 2015 Trans100 :
Maddie Adams ’s impact within the trans community includes working with Freedom Michigan in late 2014 as the advocacy organizer for Wayne County to try to pass an LGBT-inclusive Elliot Larsen Civil Rights Act in her home state of Michigan. Also, she was the first trans woman to work for the Michigan Democratic Party, as a field organizer and volunteer coordinator during the 2014 election cycle.
Ben Power Alwin is founder and executive director of the Sexual Minorities Educational Foundation Inc., a federal 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For 37 years he has been curator of the Sexual Minorities Archives, a 40-year-old national collection of LGBTQ literature, history, and art open to the public and located in his home inNorthampton, Massachusetts. Ben also founded the East Coast FTM Group in 1992, the first-ever support group for trans men in the New England region.
Jae Bates is an impressive student activist and leader. Jae led a workshop at OutFront Minnesota’s Youth Summit, which was attended by 400 high school students. He spoke at the Youth Rally held that same day in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol. He was a strong advocate for passage of the Safe & Supportive Minnesota Schools Act, bullying prevention legislation that includes protections for LGBTQ students. He testified before a senate committee about how his life had been impacted by bullying. Currently a freshman in college in Washington, he is a bold advocate for the rights of trans students and athletes.
Oliver Bendorf is an Iowa-born writer and teaching artist, currently living and working in Wisconsin. He has read poetry and facilitated workshops across the Midwest on creativity, zines, identity, the body, and transforming dysphoria through art. His book of poems, The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State UP 2015) was selected for the Wick Poetry Prize by Mark Doty, who wrote, “It’s a joy ... to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the lives of those who are engaged in the complex project of transforming their own gender.”
After nearly four years as a researcher with the Ironworkers Union’s Organizing Department, Andrea Bowen led successful transgender policy advocacy efforts in Washington, D.C., including passage of birth certificate and name change reform legislation, and mayoral policy solidifying transgender people’s right to insurance coverage of transition-related care. She also helped engineer a legal victory against a women’s homeless shelter in DC that was denying access to transgender women. She is currently executive director of Garden State Equality .
Avi Bowie is a proud multiracial, genderqueer Chi-town native and social worker with over 15 years of experience in social justice and youth advocacy. Avi’s expertise is in the areas of LGBTQ youth services, childhood trauma, and program development and evaluation. Avi began working with LGBTQ youth and families at the NYC LGBT Community Center, where they cofounded the Transgender/Gender Queer Parents and Prospective Parents Group, and served as a consultant and trainer for the LGBT Foster Care Project, which strives to improve the experiences of LGBTQ youth in out of home care.
Myles Brady is a trans revolutionary social justice warrior. Myles's passion for social services comes through wanting to see marginalized populations being empowered so they can reach their full potential. Myles is currently the transgender outreach coordinator at Chicago's Howard Brown Health Center , and he is also a collective member with the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois .
Meghan Buell is a lifelong resident of northern Indiana and has been active in the transgender community since 2003. She currently resides in South Bend and is the executive director of the GLBT Resource Center of Michiana . Meghan also serves Out & Equal Workplace Advocates on its Transgender Advisory Committee. Most recently, she has established a new nonprofit organization that is working to bring transgender education and resources to underserved rural populations in the Midwest.
Lexie Cannes is an activist, actress, writer, and award-winning filmmaker. Lexie’s popular transgender blog, Lexie Cannes State of Trans , reached a million views within three years. She also writes for The Huffington Post and other publications. Lexie’s primary areas of trans activism include trans kids, trans violence, civil rights & equality and politics. Her transgender feature film, Lexie Cannes , racked up numerous awards and accolades on the festival circuit. The lead character is transgender and the film features trans actors. The film represents trans people factually and positively.
Daniella Carter is an advocate for LGBT youth and has given speeches at local, national, and international events, including panel discussions with political leaders and dignitaries. Daniella recently initiated a project to bring visibility to trans youth issues and has collaborated with Miss Universe and others to share their experiences in overcoming homelessness. She is working with her mentor Laverne Cox and was featured in the MTV and Logo TV documentary Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word .
Joanna Cifredo s a writer and the founder of FireBreathingTGirl.com , the brand ambassador to the DC Rape Crisis Center , and a fierce advocate for trans issues. Joanna began her career in community service as a youth health educator in central Florida. Eventually she transitioned to direct services working for the Health Department, where she provided case management services to those living with HIV or AIDS. After relocating to D.C., she continued her service to the community, lending her time to Empoderate , a local Latin LGBTQ community center, and providing voice to underserved populations. Joanna serves on the board of directors for Whitman-Walker Health and is the recipient of the 2015 Visionary Voice Award by National Sexual Violence Resource Center for her work on trans-inclusive health care. Joanna, in conjunction with DC Rape Crisis Center, is launching a city-wide conversation called "SIS to Cis," a conversation between cis and transgender people of color.
Thomi Clinton ’s priority is to provide trans people the tools they need to fulfill their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Behind the scenes, her work has affected millions of lives within this nation. She is a nurturer and mother when it comes to humanitarian needs. She has remained behind the scenes for many years. She has facilitated and reformed conservative arenas, including the Department of Justice’s correctional treatment of trans to prevent rape and assault.
Lynn Conway is professor, electrical engineering and computer science, emerita, at the University of Michigan. As a young IBM researcher in the 1960s, Lynn made pioneering innovations in computer engineering. Sadly, IBM fired Lynn in 1968 upon learning that she was transgender. A gritty survivor, Lynn completed her transition and restarted her career in “stealth mode.” Working at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, she went on to pioneer new silicon-chip design methods that fueled Silicon Valley’s microelectronics revolution during the 1980s and '90s. After coming out via the Internet in 1999, Lynn went on to evolve her trans support website, LynnConway.com , into a multilingual beacon of hope and encouragement for transgender women worldwide.
Yvonne Cook-Riley is truly a pioneer of the transgender movement. She helped develop the International Foundation for Gender Education. The Outreach Institute recognized Yvonne’s dedication to the transgender movement when it awarded her the Outreach Medal in 1991. The community bestowed her with the IFGE Trinity award in 1991, the IFGE Virginia Prince Lifetime Service Award in 1995, and the Virginia Prince Pioneer Award in 2013. She is a veteran of the Air Force, having served during the Vietnam War, and now serves on the board of directors of the Transgender American Veterans Association .
James Darling is a Bay Area– based adult performer, educator, and director from the South. He is a two-time Transgender Erotica Awards FTM Performer of the Year as well as Feminist Porn Awards Heartthrob of the Year 2012. Most recently he was the second trans man to ever be nominated for 2015 AVN Awards Transsexual Performer of the Year. James opened doors for other FTM performers by working with cis gay studio Alternadudes and was influential in helping Grooby’s Transgender Erotica Awards change its name and include trans men.
Although Jordan Gwendolyn Davis has recently moved to California, she has done a lot of work in her home state of Pennsylvania to advance transgender rights . In 2012 she worked with Philadelphia City Council on a resolution that successfully brought down a discriminatory gender sticker policy on public transit passes and also worked with the late Gloria Casarez on the first ever mayoral proclamation for Transgender Day of Remembrance, worked on the first Philadelphia City Council resolution for Transgender Awareness Week, and testified in a City Council hearing on street harassment. Her crowning achievement was a landmark TLGB omnibus bill she worked with Councilmember Kenney on that passed and was signed in spring 2013. She has also worked over a year with Pennsylvania state representative Mark Cohen on the first ever trans-specific rights bills in Pennsylvania history, HB 303 (Transgender Students Rights) and HB 304 (Transgender Health Benefits Act).
Rashida Davison is a black trans/genderqueer artist and activist hailing from Rocky Mount, N.C., and currently residing in Columbus, Ohio. While in Columbus, Rashida has been involved in advocacy for transgender people of color through leadership in SHADES Buckeye Chapter , Equality Ohio, TransOhio, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. While in the position of outreach and engagement coordinator at TransOhio, Rashida helped to organize Ohio’s first Transgender Safety Summit, Northeast Ohio Transgender Job Fair, and advocated for respectful representation of the trans community in local media.
Mashuq Deen is an award-winning Brooklyn-based artist whose medium is primarily theater. He is committed to social justice, and his plays have been developed and produced at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Dixon Place, InterAct Theatre, among others, and include Shut Up!, Tank & Horse, Draw The Circle , and The Shaking Earth . He is the recipient of the NYFA Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, the James Baldwin Award, an honorable mention for the Dennis Johnston Playwriting Prize, and has been nominated for the Weissberger Award. As an activist, he is currently a working group member of Sampoorna* (by and for trans* and intersex Indians across the globe), and has worked for SALGA (queer desis in NYC).
Dallas Denny is a leader in the transgender rights movement. Her work as a writer, editor, speaker, and community builder have played and continue to play a significant role in the advancement of rights for transsexual and transgender people in North America and around the world. She is a board member for the nonprofit Transgender Health & Educational Alliance and Real Life Experiences, a member of the planning committee for the transgender event Fantasia Fair , and is a contributor to the recent book Trans Bodies, Trans Selves .
Ashley Diamond is a singer and entertainer from Rome, Ga., who unwittingly became a transgender rights activist following her incarceration in Georgia. After corrections officials terminated her hormone therapy and ignored her pleas for safe housing, Ashley commenced a lawsuit challenging Georgia's practice of denying transgender inmates gender-related care and turning a blind eye to their sexual victimization. Ashley also made a series of videos, Memoirs of a Chain Gang Sissy , amplifying the voices of LGBTQI inmates and shining a light on the abuse they experience on a daily basis.
Reverend Jubi Dutcher, OJCR, is a trans-identified priest of the Universal Anglican Church and is the diocesan administrator for the Midwest. She cofounded the Ecumenical Order of Jesus Christ Reconciler, resides in the founding house of the order, and co-pastors an oratory of the order. She has a master of divinity degree and master of arts in spirituality from Loyola University in Chicago. Mother Jubi also has two years experience studying with a Zen Buddhist master.
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi , "The Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa," is an African, Cuban, and Native American performance artist, author ( Yemaya's Daughters ), teacher, blogger ( Lady Dane Speaks , Queen Goddesses ), a regular contributor to Queer of Gender , cohost of the Inside Out Radio Show , advocate, a member of the TWOCC Leadership Team ( Trans Women of Color Collective ), a volunteer at Casa Ruby , life coach, and a founding member of Force/Collision . She began producing her own cabarets at the age of 17. At LaMama in New York in 2012 she originated the role of Madame Cordelia McClain in Erik Ehn's Shape . With Yemaya's Daughters (2013), she became the first transgender woman of color to publish a work of fiction in D.C. In 2013 (D.C.) and 2015 (NYC) she produced a reading of her musical Roaring (book and lyrics), which is about a transgender woman of color in the 1920s. She is represented by awQward Talent Agency .
Kale Edmiston is a Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience at Vanderbilt University, where he studies the neuroendocrine system, stress, and social behavior. He has published numerous papers on the neural correlates of anxiety and stress in adolescents. Kale is dedicated to improving health care access for transgender people. As codirector of The Program for LGBTI Health , Kale has shaped health care policy, research, and education to improve the lives of transgender people. He founded Trans Buddy , a unique peer advocacy program that pairs trained volunteers with transgender patients.
Lauryn Farris has spent almost 10 years working on trans issues in the state of Texas and in San Antonio. Currently she serves as assistant director of The Thrive Center , the first LGBTQ specific homeless shelter in the South. The shelter opened wi
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