anna roland is a radical, folksingin' genderqueer hailing from the midwest. anna's been strummin' and wailing all over the cunt-tree about social justice with a radical folk collective called riot folk. anna is currently re-exploring the city of st. louis while working on urban gardening, free skools, and sweet lovin'.

blake is a working class phlebotomist, HIV/STD counselor, on off hooker, and writer who lives in San Francisco. Recent writings found in the From The Inside Out anthology, LIP and Spread Magazine. He has been active with media and self-sufficiency skillshare projects throughout the US, and currently works to create better health and equal rights for trans, homeless, sex worker, and HIV at risk or positive people as initial steps towards building self-sufficient, non-capitalist infrastructures.

Citizen Rahne - see updated bio

Cubbie - No bio available.

 Eli Conley - see updated bio

Eli Wise - No bio available.

Evin Hunter is a 17-year-old tranny boy from the Philadelphia suburbs, and currently goes to boarding school in Putney, Vermont.  He likes to mountain bike, road bike, skateboard, snowboard, and basically anything else that includes wearing a helmet and falling a lot.  He also plays the oboe and the bassoon.  He also enjoys being an immature teenage guy. Evin has spoken on youth panels about trans issues, and has performed spoken word pieces on a couple of occasions.  Evin is very queer – he likes femme boys and butch girls and anything in between.

Sometimes dyky, sometimes femmy, mostly kitten … Kat Espe. Quarter.century year old latina lesbian transie chica extraordinaire//writer and also a film.maker, working on a novel entitled "t j" and two film projects: a second installment to "A Trilogy in Four Parts" and a black.white and silent film gendersmear project tentively titled "w t".  Spending way too much time contemplating gender varience of a thousand years or so ago in Europe, life lifted oft from being in co-operative living situations and Farmers' Markets galore -- now staying so much time in the best "the City" in the Republic of Calif., Oakland, new homestead and trying to do the whole "real.life.thing" while still exisisting within political and queer bubbles.

Katastrophe (AKA Rocco Kayiatos) is a hot-shit, somewhat reclusive, over analytical, FTM emo-hop MC who has rocked the mic, charmed the ladies and educated the masses across the USA. With his tongue-twisting rhyme style, political frankness and a disarming sense of humor, he has become a primary player in the growing national queer hip hop underground. Using his own internal struggle of surviving this world on the fringe, he educates and enlightens his audience with a unique perspective--rarely, if ever, heard in the hip hop community. His unapologetic, ferocious and heartfelt performances are challenging notions of normalcy while inspiring the people to get off their seats and get movin’. Go buy Katastrophe’s debute LP “Let's F*ck, Then Talk About My Problems”, and check out the music video for the single “Hella Hos.” His writing occasional appears in publications such as YO! (Youth Outlook) magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He is a contributor to an anthology of writings on the FTM experience, From the Inside Out, edited by Morty Diamond and published by ManicDPress.

Misc. Pippa - No bio available.

Natalie Chamberlin is a drummer for the Brattleboro group "The Habitual Precussors" which is led by the great Todd Roach. This group travels around the state, bringing African and Middle Eastern drumming music to the masses. Natalie is the only one qualified (being the only tranny) in this group to play at the Tranny Roadshow, so she sees this as an excellent opportunity to show off in front of a crowd. She wants her music to do the talking, so she's not going to say anymore about herself.

The New Minority - see updated bio

Lassey Johnson and Rhonda Anderson are former members of the band, Postal.   They both are and have been professional musicians, and their music will add a dimension of beautiful sounds to the show.  They have had a band off and on over the years and have done an album, as well as live rock, folk, and country benefits, and regular club and coffee house appearances. They have played every type of music there is, and for this event will do a blend of female folk/rock/country covers and some originals.

puck is a nutty nineteen year old kinky queer genderqueer lustbeast whatever.  they love BIG.  they read and they write and they dance and they listen.  they bind and they pose and they dream and they think and they yell and they scream and they seem to be real.  sometimes they're a transwoman and sometimes they're a gay pirate.  sometimes they're a cabin boy and sometimes they're a fairy (most of the time, really, as it's inherent to the name.  even if the admission thereof *does* break the rhythm).  their soapboxes are diverse, but you'll always find them waving their arms around like some kind of tranny ramona.  puckorella studies lots of things at the evergreen state college, where they are captain of the trannies, and they live in a cozy house with their cub and their kittens.

Arianna “The Raven” Davis is an experienced artist cum writer com Poetry slam/spoken word artist cum Hip/Heavy Metal/Pop lead singer… of the band “Raven Black”. She grew up and still participants in the Surfing and water sports culture of Southern California. A vivacious full-bodied African American Male-to-Female Transsexual Dyke who along with her Non-Trans girlfriend, is an extremely busy community activist, as a co-founder of TransMission International, an organization that aids Transgendered individuals in dire straits within their lives, by providing grants, resource connections, emergency housing and social activism. The Raven is also a founder and a co-facilitator of GenderRebel, a social support group that brings together individuals who do not “fit” society’s artificially created “gender rules”.

 Red - see updated bio

Reich - No bio available.

Sherilyn Connelly is a San Francisco-based writer.  She's featured at shows throughout California such as K'vetch, The Unhappy Hour, Siren, Poetry Mission, Ladyfest Bay Area and the TGSF Cotillion.  Her writing can be found on paper in I Do / I Don't: Queers on Marriage by Suspect Thoughts Press, Jennifer Blowdryer's Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages anthology, and her own self-published chapbooks. Her stage work includes acting in productions of Night of the Living Dead, The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Zippy the Pinhead (as Karen Carpenter), as well as adapting and directing a live-action Twilight Zone espisode.  She also hosts a radio show Monday nights on Pirate Cat Radio, and co-produces the cult public access show kittypr0n, which you should watch.

spoken word artist/performer/MC/author solidad decosta is a mixed race herm/queer woman of black latina maternal ancestry. equal parts street journalist, storyteller and 40 something crone-ta-be with leo moon credentials, her work encompasses the why and where of life outside the boxes in a label obsessed world, and the what, when, who and how of everything else.

her chapbooks "Orchids are Feral," "Long Delays Expect," "fierce" are available at bookstores throughout the country, and her CD/book set "Manifesto" is her most recent contribution to independent, DIY media. she is is in the process of completing a MFA in Writing from California College of Arts and Crafts. Check out her website or her myspace page.

Stephanie Loveless (formerly Tom Ness) and Susan Trescott have been married 20 years, and harmonize in life as well as music. They perform well-known cover songs of the rock tradition, usually with a Gender Transcendent message. As a self-described "Gender Terrorist," Stephanie enjoys being sweet and sexy -- while gently alerting the boys of the world that she knows their most terrifying personal secret (that they ALL wonder what it would be like to be a girl...). Stephanie and Susan are the publishers of the 20-year-old Metro Detroit music magazine, Jam Rag, and they also administer Detroit's most provocative political community action center, the Green House.

Tha Novice (aka geo creed wyeth) is a floorboard-stompin, poppin and lockin, multi-instrumentalist, playwright MC who represents brooklyn, hells kitchen, dirty jerz, and the basement. Raised in a multi-cultural home by artist parents, he has been steeped in many talents and has been performing since the age of 5 when he started taking piano lessons. His original poetry has been published in national publications of worth (trust me on this one) including a bunch of zines that he made, his favorite one being "Clipped Wings" (2002). Geo has also been performing his songs and spoken word pieces in public venues such as the subway, the park next to his house in jersey, terry's serendipity cafe, bluestockings bookstore, the soda pop shop, almost every dank weird basement in northern jersey (he supposes), the Nuyorican, and other places since he was 11 years old.

Tha Novice's solo act was featured at Wham Bam Trans Arts Festival in Providence, RI (April, 2004), and he played drumkit in the Providence based pop band Po'dunk for a whole year. Last spring, Geo also had the privilege of working with Japanese dancers Eiko and Koma in their outdoor installation/piece "Tree Song" as their composer, and was written up in the Village Voice for his "fucking awesome music" (some date in may, 2004). But really, he was.

Currently, he works a lot and goes to college at Yale University in New Haven, CT where he studies music, theater, and the American Dream. He is in the Yale-based breakdancing crew "Freestyle Expressions", where he reps as the only bi-racial, FTM pansy there is.

Tennessee Jones is an Appalachian born transman now living in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of the zine Teenage Death Songs. His first book, Deliver Me From Nowhere, is out now on Soft Skull Press (www.softskull.com). The collection explores the sex, gender, class badlands of small town America through the prism of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. The flask in his back pocket reads Hungry Heart.

A former choir boy, Charlie Anders still sings in choirs and karaoke bars. She's the publisher of other, the magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts. Her writing has been published in the anthologies Pills Chills Thrills & Heartache, It's All Good!, Pinned Down By Pronouns and The Anti-Capitalism Reader, and in Salon, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Tikkun, Genre, and ZYZZYVA. Her satirical web site www.godhatesfigs.com was the London Sunday Times’ site of the week, and a Yahoo.com cool site. She is the author of The Lazy Crossdresser (Greenery Press, 2002), a guide for anyone—especially those born male—who feels inadequate in women’s clothing.

andre hewitt, otherwise known as the urban hermitt, writes about counterculture, with soul. from hippies to punks to kinky queer people, he's got a story to tell. and he's been tellin' these stories for years in the urban hermitt fanzine, and his novel, the flow chronicles (microcosm), a story about nitemare hippies and coming out as queer in the midst of lsd induced- heterosexist- rainbow gathering -love. andre hewitt has been featured in many publications including girlfriends and the zine yearbook. he has also toured the country with many well known "crust punk bands" and zinesters. andre lives in san francisco where he works as a counselor, hangs out in dirty bear fag joints,  performs hip hop. he spends way too much time writing letters and emails explaining to be people that he is a trans man. most people never write him back. he hopes that someday people will "get it."

Emil Heiple, exiled from the dirty south, and reborn a boy: of soils and sweats far from home grew his new book, The Body of Loss. In his free time he teaches, writes a fanzine called  Handjive, rides his bike, and is currently putting together an anthology of writing from juvenile prisons across the U.S. called Therez More Than One Way to Spell T.R.E.W.T.H.  Emil currently resides in the bubble of San Francisco, Ca.

Carolyn Connelly is an Irish-Italian Slayer-listening femme dyke spoken word artist and activist.  She is author of the autobiographical zine A Brooklyn Diary. She curates Dirty Mouth, an erotica reading series at Toys in Babeland.  Carolyn has performed at the Queer at Here Theater Festival, Wham Bam Trans, the Radar Series and Camp Trans. When she is not out raising hell on the stage or in the streets, you can find her in Prospect Park playing with her pit bull Saoirse.

Gentry - No bio available. A filmmaker, Gentry's film "Detached" toured with the Roadshow.

Gina Kamentsky, animator, sculptor, and toy inventor has produced and directed numerous animated films including "A Little Pet Story", featured in the Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo and "Bebe Nicholas" a collaboration with Svetlana Rockwell, daughter of pinscreen animator Alexandre Alexeieff. Along with animation, Ms. Kamentsky has a worldwide reputation in the toy industry having invented numerous classic games including "Fraidy Cats" and "Chicken Limbo" which has sold millions of pieces worldwide. She is currently involved in several exciting ventures including writing and illustrating the comic book series "T-Gina". Her company Pixeltoon produces animation for broadcast and the web.

As a triple-threat force in the comics and animation industries, Maddie Blaustein has used her eclectic body of skills as artist, writer, and voice actress for over 20 years. Her explosive talent has graced projects ranging from writing and editing Spiderman for Marvel Comics, to a featured role as Meowth in the Pokemon movies and television series. She is currently the Senior Digital Artist at DC Comics and her many cartoon voices can be heard on both The Fox Box and the Kids WB in such hit shows as Kirby, Ultimate Muscle, Sonic X, Cubix, Fighting Foodons, Shaman Kings, Funky Cops, Yugioh!, and in it's seventh #1 season...Pokemon!

Philipe Lonestar is a genderqueer multi-media artist, internationally-screened filmmaker, gender performance artist, seamstress and sex educator. Ze organized the 2003 Olympia Sex conference, the first sex education conference fully inclusive of trans and genderqueer people. Ze owns and operates Femme Boy Supplies productions a femme boy film production and fashion design company. Philipe loves tea time, clothespins, orange, aprons, chickens, kissing, fake flowers and tumbleweed the cat. Ze has been diagnosed as gender euphoric by the American Psychiatric Association. While not shooting, dreaming and editing colorful film creations, Philipe works as a domestic violence and sexual assault prevention advocate and educator in Olympia, WA soon to move to San Francisco (watch out!!!)

Philipe likes telling stories and dressing up, putting on make up, making out and tea time. Zirs favorite pass times are old maid, pick-up sticks, playing cello, piano and sewing sex positive stuffed animals. Ze lives with tumbleweed, the most gay cat ever. Philipe almost never gets bored. Ze is so happy to be alive.

 Soren Lundiis a genderqueer writer and artist living in Pittsburgh.  He had his first solo show  at Boxheart Gallery last year, and has self published a collection of comics entitled Fatal//Romantic.  He is currently working on a Novel entitled The Ephemeralizing Device.

Tina Andrus - No bio available. A filmmaker, her film "Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers" toured with the Roadshow.