Good Asian Drivers - Friday Evening Performance

A transgender slam poet and a lesbian folkrocker team up for a show that is progressive, edgy, and funny. They smash every stereotype out there while putting on a show you will never forget. The Good Asian Drivers have heart and a voice they're not afraid to use.

Mia Mingus - Saturday Speaker

Mia Mingus is a a queer disabled woman of color, South Korean transracial adoptee, organizer and one of the Co-Executive Directors of SPARK Reproductive Justice Now (formerly Georgians for Choice) in Atlanta, Georgia. She believes that reproductive justice is crucial in the struggle for social change and the fight to end oppression. Through her work on disability, race, reproductive justice, gender, sexuality, and transracial adoption, she recognizes the urgency and barriers for oppressed communities to work together and build alliances for liberation. Though her activism changes and evolves, her roots remain firmly planted in ending sexual violence.

HirBois - Saturday Evening Performance

HirBois is the first and only Drag King troupe in Ventura, California. They performed their first show at Paddy’s in Ventura. Other shows they have performed include: LA Silverlake dyke march, WildCat Ladies Night, and Santa Barbara Pride.

MEDUSA - Saturday Evening Performance

Starting off MCing as a 16- year old pop-locker, Medusa has been called “the Angela Davis of hip-hop”. Pop-lockin with the Groove-Atrons gave her talents a platform to win the Best Female Dancer in the 1st Hip Hop Dance Awards at The Paladium. Medusa has been compared to a medley of amazing artist, including Gil-Scott Heron for their ways of expressing the revolutionary state of mind, Chuck D. (imagine a female Chuck D.), Lauren Hill for having the ability to posses an international talent in the voice world, and like the Game, who’s a versatile heavy hitter on speaking his life’s truth’s. Medusa gives you the key to real truth and allows you to feel it and even though the comparisons could go on, Medusa is on a Goddess list of her own. You will find no other who will bring it to you like this, someone’s music that makes you feel strong, proud, and encourages with the manner of ONE Love.

Funkanometry - Saturday Evening Performance

Funkanometry San Francisco Dance Company is a 501(c)3 non-profit performing arts organization renowned for their cutting-edge choreography, stylistic versatility, and professionalism. It was established in 2002 and has been serving the Bay Area dance community, and beyond, ever since. Through performances, company classes, workshops, and youth mentorship, Funkanometry SF is a dynamically different dance company whose eccentric style of choreography has been recognized worldwide.

Em-1 - Saturday Evening DJ

It was her overall appreciation of music that sparked Em-1 to immerse herself in the art form that has been deemed to be the "backbone of hip hop". This Queer Filipina grew up in an era where deejaying was being taken to the next level -- turntablism. Drawing influences from underground hip hop artists, she picked up her first pair of "1200's" at the age of 18. Since then, deejaying is a skill she has remained passionate about for over 10 years and has been respected in local hip hop communities in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, mainly for her ability to keep the "true-skool" sound playing in clubs, local radio shows, and community events . Seeing how more and more people in the queer community are beginning to embrace the hip hop culture, she feels it is essential to understand the roots of what hip hop really is and not follow the image that mainstream radio continually promotes.

Faisal Alam - Sunday Speaker

Faisal Alam is a queer-identified Muslim activist of Pakistani descent. Struggling to reconcile his own sexuality with his faith, Faisal founded the first international LGBT Muslim organization called Al-Fatiha in October 1998 at the age of 20. The mission of Al-Fatiha which means "The Opening" in Arabic is to support and empower lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and intersex Muslims seeking ways to integrate their faith and their sexual orientation or gender identity. Since Al-Fatiha's inception, Faisal has traveled across the country and around the world to meet with LGBTIQ Muslims to build a global queer Muslim movement. Faisal's work with Al-Fatiha has been featured in queer and mainstream media including the New York Times, BBC World News, Al-Hayat, and the Washington Post. Faisal has received numerous recognitions and awards for his community activism. He was selected as an "Innovator" by the Advocate Magazine in 2001 and a "Founding Father" by Genre Magazine in 2002. In 2005, the Equality Forum honored Faisal as one of "40 Heroes" who have made a defining different in LGBT civil rights over the last forty years. Faisal's volunteer activism and his paid career have also included LGBT youth leadership development, HIV/AIDS prevention in the Asian & Pacific Islander communities, and advocating for women's reproductive health and reproductive justice. Faisal resides in Atlanta, GA with his partner and their two cats where he continues to advocate for peace, equality and justice.

Miss Major - Sunday Speaker

Miss Major is an elder, black, formerly imprisoned male-to-female transgender person. She has been an activist and advocate in her community for over forty years, mentoring and empowering many of today's transgender leaders to stand tall, step into their own power, and defend their human rights.

Miss Major was at the Stonewall uprisings in '69, has worked at many HIV/AIDS organizations throughout California, was an original member of Transcendence, the first all-transgender gospel choir, and has been a father, mother, grandfather, and grandmother to her children and the trans community.

In 2008, she testified to the United Nations in Geneva about the abuses of transgender women of color in the US.

Currently, Miss Major works as the Community Organizing Director at TGI Justice Project where she instills hope and a belief in a better future to the girls that are currently incarcerated and those coming home.