12 min
285 Jex Lopez - From Surviving To Thriving Queerstories
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- Comedy
Jex shares a story about healing from trauma through therapy and music while working as a children's performer in regional NSW.
Jex Lopez is mostly known amongst queers as a singer songwriting pianist. A vaudevillian cabaret noir artist, her music and style is intrinsically tied to her identity as a queer Latina Meztiça with Portuguese Indian heritage. Jex creates unconventional and elaborate costumes and projections to accompany her unique sound stories. She released her irreverent debut album ‘Playing Dead’ in 2018. She now works part time as a primary school music teacher and, since covid, spends a lot of time making visual art for her Lino print business JexCuts. Across all of her creative practice, she makes beauty from the shadows and finds theatre and joy where we could easily despair.
Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit www.queerstories.com.au and follow Queerstories on Facebook.
The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia.
To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter
And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow Maeve Marsden on Twitter and Instagram.
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Jex shares a story about healing from trauma through therapy and music while working as a children's performer in regional NSW.
Jex Lopez is mostly known amongst queers as a singer songwriting pianist. A vaudevillian cabaret noir artist, her music and style is intrinsically tied to her identity as a queer Latina Meztiça with Portuguese Indian heritage. Jex creates unconventional and elaborate costumes and projections to accompany her unique sound stories. She released her irreverent debut album ‘Playing Dead’ in 2018. She now works part time as a primary school music teacher and, since covid, spends a lot of time making visual art for her Lino print business JexCuts. Across all of her creative practice, she makes beauty from the shadows and finds theatre and joy where we could easily despair.
Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit www.queerstories.com.au and follow Queerstories on Facebook.
The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia.
To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter
And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow Maeve Marsden on Twitter and Instagram.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12 min