Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation

About

Qween Jean is a New Yorkbased activist and costume designer who has designed over fifty shows. She earned a BA in business communications at the University of North Carolina and an MFA in design from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. In 2020 Jean founded Black Trans Liberation an organization aiming to provide access and employment resources for trans and gender nonconforming communities. In 2021 she was artist-in-residence at MoMA PS1 New York where she also cocurated Memoriam and Deliverance an installation that called awareness to the last five years of transphobic fatal violence while celebrating Black trans leaders. Joela Rivera is an Afro-Caribbean Transgender Abolitionist and organizer based in New York. Mikelle Street is a New Yorkbased editor and storyteller. He is the former editorial director of digital for Out the Advocate and Plus magazines as well as creator and host of HBO Maxs The Let Out: A Legendary Podcast. Street also previously held positions as digital director and senior editor at Out Magazine and style editor at Maxim. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Wall Street Journal GQ Vogue i-D and Aperture among others. Raquel Willis is an activist award-winning writer and media strategist dedicated to Black trans liberation. She has held groundbreaking posts throughout her career including director of communications for Ms. Foundation for Women executive editor of Out Magazine and national organizer for Transgender Law Center. During her time at Out she published the GLAAD Media Awardwinning Trans Obituaries Project. She has written for Autostraddle Bitch Buzzfeed Essence For Harriet HuffPost PRIDE Quartz and VICE. She will release her debut memoir about her coming of identity and activism with St. Martins Press in 2023.