DJ Memphis Sugar

DJ Memphis Sugar is a Black, Queer, Trans visual artist and DJ. He spins music from the Dirty South, from smooth Soul to messy Funk to Get Down and dirty rhythms from the past four decades. Get down on it! And put up your Resistance.


Ignacio Rivera

Ignacio Rivera is a performer, activist, educator, and sex worker. Ignacio has been performing their poetry and one-person shows across the country. As a sex worker, they are working in the adult film industry, See them in Trans Entity: The Nasty Love of Papi and Wil and In Search of The Wild Kingdom.

Ignacio is the founder of Poly Patao Production (P3). P3 is dedicated to producing sex-positive workshops, performance pieces, films, play parties, and educational opportunities. Ze is also one of the founding board member of Queers for Economic Justice, a progressive non-profit organization committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation.


Tona Brown

Bio information can be found on www.tonabrown.com or http://www.myspace.com/tonacity


Julia Serano

Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, musician, spoken word artist, and trans activist. She is the author of Whipping Girl: ATranssexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, a collection of personal essays that reveal how misogyny frames popular assumptions about femininity and shapes many of the myths and misconceptions people have about transsexual women. In addition, Julia is both a poetry slam champion and the guitarist-vocalist-lyricist for the noisy pop trio Bitesize, who have released two critically acclaimed CDs, toured up and down the West Coast and received college radio airplay nationwide. www.juliaserano.com


namoli brennet

Tucson-based songwriter namoli brennet has honed her craft through hundreds of performances and thousands of miles on the road. This hardworking and prolific performer has independently produced and released six CDs since 2002 on her own label, Flaming Dame Records. She’s toured the country many times over, making stops at the San Diego Indie Music Fest, DC Pride, Chicago’s Queer is Folk Fest, Boston’s Club Passim, and hundreds of coffee shops, clubs, festivals, colleges and house concerts. Along the way she’s had the privilege of sharing the stage with Melissa Ferrick, Jill Sobule, Michelle Shocked and spoken-word artist Alix Olson. She’s a four-time Outmusic Award nominee who’s been featured in Performing Songwriter Magazine, The Advocate and the Chicago Free Press.


Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. An award-winning author of five books and a renowned performer, Ivan’s first love is live storytelling, and over the last twelve years she has become an audience favourite at music, poetry, spoken word and writer's festivals from Anchorage to Amsterdam. The Globe and Mail called Ivan "a natural-born storyteller" and Ottawa XPress said "Coyote is to CanLit what k.d. lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture." The Toronto Star praises Coyote’s “talent for sketching the bizarre in the everyday”, and Quills Magazine says Ivan has a “distinctive and persuasive voice, a flawless sense of pacing, and an impeccable sense of story.”


Goodhandy’s Cabaret

Goodhandy's is a Toronto club run by T-Girl entertainer and spanking video star Mandy Goodhandy and writer and porn producer Todd Klinck. The club has hosted cabaret-style shows featuring burlesque babes, drag kings, and t-girlsingers. Since opening in May 2006, Goodhandy's has been a leader in creating a space for marginalized community groups from across the queer spectrum, including sex workers rights advocates, queer persons of color, the fetish community, and trans folks. Goodhandy's is sex-positive and regularly hosts sex parties and live porn presentations. Goodhandy's also feels it is important to welcome straight people into our pansexual world!


Nolan Natasha

This TO native is a transgender rapper who captivates with candid story telling, kick-ass rhymes and magnetic stage presence. Nolan got his music career off the ground as front man for the electro-punk band, Scandalnavia, and has now branched off working solo and collaborating with other artists such as DJ and producer COZMIC CAT (named Best DJ in Philly) and Chelsey of Fat Femme Mafia. Nolan Natasha wins over crowd after crowd with his skills on the mic and his lyrics’ wit and charm. Nolan "fuses the smart-aleck...attitude of the Beasties with the whimsical storytelling skillz of Buck 65." - Now Magazine


Drag King Dred

Dred is a queer speaking and lypsynching drag king impersonating P. Diddy and Shaft to name a few. Dred is one of the most sought after artists for LGBTQQIA, Black History, and Women's History Month events. Through her performances, she draws attention to how society domesticates us into our preconceived notions of sexuality, race, and gender. Using theatre, dance, humor, and cultural history, Dred plays with gender roles and social/racial stereotypes to inspire all audiences to think about race, gender, and identities. Her shows are not just about imitating the "opposite" sex, they are about freedom of self-expression and crossing/breaking boundaries.


CPI

CPI started in 1999 and is a veteran of the queer party scene. She seamlessly mixes an eclectic blend of booty-shaking house, electro, hiphop and breaks, focusing on cutting-edge sounds and precision mixing. She has headlined at Savour, numerous Pride events, and held residencies in Ottawa and Montreal.