Instructors
This person told us about how beauty is within.
Who is Raja Feather Kelly?
This means having a brain that may work differently from what is considered “normal”.
What is Neurodivergent?
Practices that help support a person to live fully in their gender identity.
What is gender affirming care?
This is rooted in the belief that the people who know what the community needs are the community members themselves and that when those people get together they can make the most powerful change.
What is community organizing?
A person who makes up steps and moves for a dance.
Who is a choreographer?
This person reviewed how art can be revolutionary (AKA artivism).
Who is Carter?
This is someone who grows up with different cultures.
Who is a Third Culture Kid?
When the hormones you were born with don’t give you the same look on the outside as you feel on the inside, so new hormones are put inside you to help you better express your true gender identity.
What is hormone replacement therapy?
This was defined in 1960 as a way to describe a way of life and attitude that is against, opposite to, or radically different from what is considered “normal” by popular society (also called “mainstream” society).
What is counterculture?
This is a creation that does not try to look like anything that has existed before and is usually trying to make you think of entirely new things or make you feel entirely new feelings by using shapes and colors and textures in new ways.
What is abstract art?
This person taught us about the power in the trans community and gender-affirming care.
Who is Aris Reyes?
This represents the ways in which a culture is handed down from one generation to another. It may include tangible things like food, art, and clothing, or intangible things like language, songs, traditions and stories.
What is cultural heritage?
This means that you don’t always need to read a lot of books or go to school to become an expert on a certain topic, you can also know a lot about something because you personally lived through that experience.
What is a lived experience?
This movement was built on ideas that were all about questioning everything and being suspicious of what was “normal.”
What is postmodernism?
This is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person, even if you are different from that person and may never yourself know the struggles they are going through.
What is empathy?
This person taught us about fluidity and intersectionality.
Who is Christine Su?
This is a person who has been forced to leave their home country, usually because of war, discrimination, or natural disasters, and has tried to find safety in another country.
Who is a refugee?
The process of making your gender expression match your gender identity.
What is transition?
This is any work such as a painting, drawing, sculpture, etc. that is made with the purpose to draw attention to current issues the artist disagrees with and which they want their audience to think about.
What is political art?
This means the refusal to accept something and/or to push against what someone wants you to do or how they want you to be.
What is resistance?