Creating Healing Spaces By and For Trans Community (Panel Discussion)
Mx. Dahlia Belle, Portland, OR
Given Q. Davis, Portland, OR
When we hear "safe" and "sanctuary" cities, what do these terms really mean? And what should they mean and actually look like?
Given Q. Davis and Mx. Dahlia Belle discuss what it takes, and why it is absolutely essential, to create healing spaces for trans people by trans people.
Panelists
Hilarious, ignant, and the best sort of mess, Portland-based comedian Mx. Dahlia Belle has been compared to a Swiss Army knife - different tools to extract sharpness, softness, vulnerability, hope, and wicked wit.
Her writing has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Guardian, The Stranger, and Portland Mercury. As a public speaker, she has been a repeat guest on NPR, CBC, XRAY FM, and Portland Radio Project (PRP).
Her live performances have included NW Black Comedy Festival, Upper Left Comedy Festival, Mutiny Radio, and an awkward conversation with John Waters and Piers Morgan. You can catch Dahlia in the popular Netflix special Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Gender Agenda’.
Given Q Davis (he/they) is a magic maker and a wild card. He is a queer Black neurodivergent nonbinary trans masc multidisciplinary artist living in Portland, Oregon. Their creative practice dances the lines of poetry, clowning, drag, music, tarot, healing/ritual arts, workshop facilitation, and dreamy collaborations. Given believes that the creation of connective spaces that welcome both artistic expression and authenticity nourishes communities and serves as a catalyst for healing, resistance, and revolution. Through his work–both onstage and in the community–he is writing an ongoing love letter to the complicated, hilarious, and beautiful versions of ourselves we have been, who we are today, and to the people we are always already becoming.
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