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Queer Lexicon is a JRV MAJESTY Production series of 20-30 minute interviews profiling, investigating and exploring the lives and experiences of the queer community. The conversations range from discussing historical issues of segregation, youth homelessness and street economies, intersectionality of race, class, gender, sex and religion, the failure of academic and non-profit institutions and the personal and intimate details of everyday life as creators, artists, activists and culture makers in this community.

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  1. Mister Wallace Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    2014. 02. 21.

    Mister Wallace Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    "Our greatest hope? What's going to get us there? Me. I'm going to say it cause I can hold it. I can hold that responsibility and I think that's the kind of attitude I want to inspire in other people because if we don't have that attitude than we are never going to get there." Joe Varisco of JRV MAJESTY Productions recently sat down with Mister Wallace in an interview to discuss his work with the Banjee Report, future independent work in performance art and deconstructing spaces. Mister Wallace is a Black American homosexual male whose music invokes a global perspective from a marginalized character point of view. What they look like and where they were born have been both profitable as well as problematic. Being both privileged and a victim of prejudice they live in constant duality and their art is representative of this fact. "My body is my canvas. Collaborating with and referencing other(s) art I allow myself to be a vessel for ideas. My specialty is the performance of these shared ideas to create new ideas. My goal isn't to innovate the new. My goal is to re-remember the past into a better present and in turn future." Stay tuned for Mister Wallace's new mixtape and future sound love Spring 2014! https://www.facebook.com/misterwallaceii http://www.iammisterwallace.tumblr.com http://www.banjeereport.tumblr.com

    36분
  2. H. Melt Interview PART I a JRV MAJESTY & StoryCorps Partnership

    2014. 01. 24.

    H. Melt Interview PART I a JRV MAJESTY & StoryCorps Partnership

    "Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is having to create our own spaces because there is a lack or because we don't fit into these other institutions, even mainstream gay or lesbian institutions, and so some of my dreams right now are to open a queer arts space or queer art gallery where we can have workshops and resources and a space to show ourselves." JRV MAJESTY Productions recently sat down with author H. Melt to discuss their works as a poet and upcoming projects as well as how they use their work as a device to challenge the policy and behavior of systems and institutions. H. Melt is the author of SIRvival in the Second City: Transqueer Chicago Poems, a teaching artist with Young Chicago Authors and a writer for Original Plumbing. For more information on H. Melt's work please visit: http://www.hmelt.tumblr.com NOTE: Since this interview both SAIC and Lambda Literary have engaged in dialogue with H. Melt to cooperate in developing comprehensive solutions. This work is ongoing. This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. storycorps.org/

    16분
  3. Jackie Boyd Interview PART II a JRV MAJESTY & StoryCorps Partnership

    2013. 10. 08.

    Jackie Boyd Interview PART II a JRV MAJESTY & StoryCorps Partnership

    "I want to be very clear that within queer community the people that we should be focusing on and bringing to the center of community is queer and trans* people of color and our street-based youth. Without question, we can all see regardless of level of education, regardless of what your ethnic background is we can all understand that those intersections of being queer trans* and a person of color or being youth and being homeless those are the people that need the most support, that need the benefit of our resources if we are not going to make the same mistakes." JRV MAJESTY Productions recently sat down with community organizer and queer majesty Jackie Boyd to record a conversation at Storycorps Chicago. We discussed her role in establishing organized events for Queer & Trans* People of Color (QTPOC) and the establishment of Project Fierce Chicago (PFC) a grassroots organization dedicated to securing housing for queer youth experiencing homelessness throughout Chicago. For more information on Jackie Boyd's work with Project Fierce Chicago please visit: projectfiercechicago.org/‎ This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. storycorps.org/

    12분
  4. Jackie Boyd Interview PART I a JRV MAJESTY & StoryCorps Partnership

    2013. 09. 25.

    Jackie Boyd Interview PART I a JRV MAJESTY & StoryCorps Partnership

    "I want to be very clear that within queer community the people that we should be focusing on and bringing to the center of community is queer and trans* people of color and our street-based youth. Without question, we can all see regardless of level of education, regardless of what your ethnic background is we can all understand that those intersections of being queer trans* and a person of color or being youth and being homeless those are the people that need the most support, that need the benefit of our resources if we are not going to make the same mistakes." JRV MAJESTY Productions recently sat down with community organizer and queer majesty Jackie Boyd to record a conversation at Storycorps Chicago. We discussed her role in establishing organized events for Queer & Trans* People of Color (QTPOC) and the establishment of Project Fierce Chicago (PFC) a grassroots organization dedicated to securing housing for queer youth experiencing homelessness throughout Chicago. For more information on Jackie Boyd's work with Project Fierce Chicago please visit: projectfiercechicago.org/‎ This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. http://storycorps.org/

    7분
  5. Gnat Brilmyer Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    2013. 06. 05.

    Gnat Brilmyer Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    "I think it is really important to check ourselves and to realize that yeah we can theorize all we want, but that's not going to put a roof over someones head, that's not going to get someone a meal. In some ways, how is that really important? I think it is great to mobilize thought and then mobilize as humans, but I think there is this very important time where we need to realize that our pretentious discussions here in this expensive school aren't really doing anything for people out on the streets. I don't know too much about how to bridge that gap, but I have been thinking a lot about it." Joe Varisco recently sat down with Gnat Brilmyer to discuss their epic work as fashion designer and recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Covering a wealth of topics from working with world renowned designers to the unsurprising conflicts appearing on FOX News to building accessible community to queer youth and the barriers of academic privilege. To keep up with Gnat's work, upcoming collaborations and purchase some cute delicious playful bondage gear you visit her here: http://glittergnat.tumblr.com/ http://www.etsy.com/shop/GnatBrilmyer --- This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com

    25분
  6. Jen Richards Trans 100 Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    2013. 03. 27.

    Jen Richards Trans 100 Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    Jen Richards on the importance of discussing race in the trans community: "A lot of trans activists will talk about the Transgender Day of Remembrance and I've seen a number of videos and read a lot of articles from white activists who never mention the fact that all the names on the list are women of color. If you are doing that, if you are co-opting that event to talk about violence against trans people, but you are not mentioning trans women specifically, trans women of color specifically or sex work specifically then you are failing." Joe Varisco of JRV MAJESTY Productions sits down with Jen Richards founder of We Happy Trans* (www.WeHappyTrans.com) to discuss the launch of the 2013 Trans 100 list. http://www.facebook.com/events/491163934264456 The 2013 Trans 100 is an inaugural overview of the breadth and diversity of work being done in, by, and for the transgender community across the United States. The first effort of its kind, the list intends to shift the coverage of trans issues by focusing on the positive work being accomplished, and providing visibility to those typically underrepresented. This positive recognition will rightfully occur on March 31st, the International Transgender Day of Visibility, and it will be telecast live and documented to be viewed and celebrated by individuals, groups and organizations in other regions and nations. The launch will include remarks by special guests Janet Mock and Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler, live performances by Namoli Brennet and Joe Stevens, and will be hosted by KOKUMO. This is a joint production of We Happy Trans, This is HOW, and Chicago House. The event will be free, but donations are encouraged and reservations are recommended. For sponsorship opportunities and media inquiries, please contact producer Jen Richards via jen@WeHappyTrans.com. Jen Richards lives in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago and is quite happily in an asymptotic relationship to radical authenticity and in a permanent state of aporia. Jen is unabashedly proud to be a graduate of Shimer College, longtime member of the Theosophical Society in America, and an Outward Bound alum, has published articles, led workshops and presented talks on a variety of topics across the country, relishes her work in the arts as the Managing Director of eighth blackbird and President of New Music Chicago, and is the creator of wehappytrans.com She humbly requests your latitude as she figures out what the hell she is doing, and remains genuinely open to feedback. She earnestly loves truth, beauty and goodness. She also loves you, madly. Yes, you. Check out more of Jen's work at: wtftransdating.tumblr.com ourtranschat.tumblr.com translovestories.tumblr.com --- This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com

    21분
  7. H. Melt Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    2013. 03. 22.

    H. Melt Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    "When you constantly have to be ready to process discrimination or you have to be ready to be offended or expect the worse because you are challenging a lot of norms in society that is unfortunately grounds for punishment and harassment rather than celebration. That's why we need to do the work of both having those queer spaces, but also doing the work of transforming our outside world by talking with our friends, our family…people that we work with. Everyone, our neighbors, our whole community." Joe Varisco of JRV MAJESTY Productions has been familiar with the works of SIRvival in the Second City: Transqueer Chicago Poems author (http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/SIRvival-in-the-Second-City) H. Melt since their first submission to Chicago local queer literary and arts digest, CHICAGO IRL. H. Melt has brought a reckoning upon their return to Chicago and enrollment as a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute - Chicago (SAIC). Throughout the interview H. Melt explores the nature or their creative works as a transqueer poet and author and their complicated and deepening relationship to Chicago. Specifically, H. Melt evaluates SAIC's lack of capacity to acknowledge transqueer individuals and support them institutionally. H. Melt (http://hmelt.tumblr.com) is a poet and artist who was born in Chicago. Their work proudly documents Chicago’s queer and trans communities. They have published, performed and exhibited in: All the Writers I Know, Broad Magazine, Chicago IRL, F Newsmagazine, In Our Words, Salonathon, Temporary Allegiance & Woman Made Gallery. They are currently an emerging teaching artist with Young Chicago Authors and a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. **SAIC's Director of Multicultural Affairs, James Britt reported as of Fall 2012 actions have been taken to become more inclusive of transqueer students by designating 14 "gender-free" bathrooms throughout the campus. Discussions of further policy proposals and action to improve the rights and needs of transqueer students are said to be forthcoming. For additional information James Britt can be reached at: jbritt1@saic.edu | 312.629.6869. Additional information regarding SAIC's non-discrimination policy can be found here: http://www.saic.edu/media/saic/pdfs/lifesaic/newstudentorientation/studenthandbook.pdf (PAGE 87) --- This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com

    27분
  8. Shea Couleé Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    2013. 02. 23.

    Shea Couleé Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    “I just know that I have a very special opinion and a voice and something to say, to give to people and for me that is what this is all about is having an opportunity to reach more and more people and be on a larger platform to just share it. It is something I do for me, but it is something that I do for every little queer, Black, weird, gay, Latino, Asian, chubby kid that, you know, that has felt like at one point or another in their life that they weren’t cool enough or pretty enough because I know what that feels like.” Joe Varisco of JRV MAJESTY Productions recently dropped into the Lesbian Lounge where Shea Couleé was rehearsing for the December 2012 show Salonathon Presents: You're Gonna Die - A Holiday Fantastia at Metro Chicago. Shea unveils the reality of her drag persona, how she keeps her edge and what fuels her passion. Shea Couleé is an international performance sensation and the ultimate adrogynous wet dream guaranteed to sashay her way into the spotlight. Inspired by the divas of yesteryear and stacked with a pair of gams that you can climb right to the high heavens, Shea Coulee is the butter that melts in your mouth. - Earth Pearl Collective --- This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com

    27분
  9. Kiam Marcelo Junio Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    2013. 02. 02.

    Kiam Marcelo Junio Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    "I feel like to really make a change or effect something [queer life] needs to be visible on a large scale because we know that this is important. We know that intersectionality is reality. That people are coming from so many different backgrounds and that these need to be respected and that is not reflected in the larger society that continues to put us in boxes. I think to break down these boxes we also need to come out of our own." Joe Varisco of JRV MAJESTY Productions recently joined the Chances Dances Mark Aguhar Memorial Grant recipient, Kiam Marcelo Junio at their home in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood and meditated over food with a conversation on performance work, queer spaces and where we go from here. Kiam provides layers of insight into the development of character Jerry Blossom and series "At Your Service" and "Model Minority" as discourse on sexuality, gender and class as a Filipina women. Kiam Marcelo Junio is a multidisciplinary artist living in Chicago, IL. He works in various media including photography, video, printmaking, installation, burlesque, dance, and performance art. His research and art work centers around queer identities, racial and gender studies, the Filipino diaspora, post-colonialist Asian American tropes and stereotypes, international camp and drag culture, and military and civilian power dynamics. http://www.iamKiam.com --- This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com

    26분
  10. Jackie Boyd Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    2012. 12. 13.

    Jackie Boyd Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

    "If we want [community] to change and if we ourselves want to be made better by actually being inclusive and change our queer community within this really, really racist city we have to move. We have to be willing to take the train some place we haven't taken the train before. We have to do some research and know what's going on and know the players that are outside our community". Joe Varisco of JRV MAJESTY Productions sat down with Jacqueline Boyd founder and director of Chicago's Queer Choir to discuss what her work as a board member deciding recipients for the Chances Dances Critical Fierceness and Mark Aguhar Memorial grants. She also discusses her work as an organizer, the challenges of working in a segregated city, the power behind the use of "call out culture" and the intentionality it takes to create a more inclusive, beneficial, healthy, safe and loving space for everyone. Jackie is a powerful force of queer energy and spirit in Chicago. As director of the Queer Choir she has brought a myriad of voices in community together to create one sound to celebrate our differences and honor our shared energy. In addition to building community through vocal performance Jackie was recently a subject in Jules Rosskam's film 'Thick Relations' currently submitting to film festivals, an organizer participating in the development of a city-wide large scale event 'Queer Central Time' as well as founding Board Member of the Chances Dances Collective, which helps determine the recipients of the Chances Dances Critical Fierceness and Mark Aguhar Memorial grants. --- This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com

    27분
  11. SSION & House of LaDosha Interview with The Qu.co

    2012. 10. 31.

    SSION & House of LaDosha Interview with The Qu.co

    Joe Varisco of JRV MAJESTY Productions for The Qu.co recently sat down with SSION artist Cody Critcheloe and Zach Van Benthusen as well as The House of LaDosha’s Adam Radakovich, a.k.a. Cunty Crawford LaDosha and Antonio Blair, a.k.a. Dosha Devastation at Chicago’s Empty Bottle before their show to discuss their perspectives and experiences in and around queer life. We cover female deity worship, the presence of hair in performance and identity, where we are going as a community and where do we want go. SSION is a magical roaring musical group started by Cody Critcheloe out of Kansas City and The House of LaDosha is a collective of musical talent and attitude brought to us by Brooklyn majesty Antonio Blair and Adam Radakovich. http://ssion.com/ http://www.houseofladosha.com/

    43분
  12. Jen Richards (We Happy Trans ) Interview with The Qu.co

    2012. 09. 04.

    Jen Richards (We Happy Trans ) Interview with The Qu.co

    We Happy Trans* - Jen Richards http://www.WeHappyTrans.com Joe Varisco of JRV MAJESTY Productions for The Qu.co sat down with Jen Richards founder of We Happy Trans* to discuss what her work via this social platform means, where it is going and a myriad of other investigations about identity in relationship to community. Jen Richards lives in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago and is quite happily in an asymptotic relationship to radical authenticity and in a permanent state of aporia. Jen is unabashedly proud to be a graduate of Shimer College, longtime member of the Theosophical Society in America, and an Outward Bound alum, has published articles, led workshops and presented talks on a variety of topics across the country, relishes her work in the arts as the Managing Director of eighth blackbird and President of New Music Chicago, and is the creator of wehappytrans.com She humbly requests your latitude as she figures out what the hell she is doing, and remains genuinely open to feedback. She earnestly loves truth, beauty and goodness. She also loves you, madly. Yes, you. Check out more of Jen's work at: http://wtftransdating.tumblr.com http://ourtranschat.tumblr.com http://translovestories.tumblr.com

    29분
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Queer Lexicon is a JRV MAJESTY Production series of 20-30 minute interviews profiling, investigating and exploring the lives and experiences of the queer community. The conversations range from discussing historical issues of segregation, youth homelessness and street economies, intersectionality of race, class, gender, sex and religion, the failure of academic and non-profit institutions and the personal and intimate details of everyday life as creators, artists, activists and culture makers in this community.

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