About the Artist

Tristan Angieri
Tristan Angieri is a non-binary multi-disciplinary artist, director and actor. Their directorial debut is Integrate.Me, a POV Spark Otherly short documentary made for Instagram Stories and co-produced by POV, American Documentary, and The National Film Board of Canada. Integrate.Me explores the use of an experimental therapy to treat Tristan’s PTSD, as they learn to navigate being queer and trans. Tristan’s streetwear is sold on the queer and trans design label Homogoods. In 2018 they released the EP Eccolocations as half of Hairband Hairband. As Themperor, they released the 2019 single, Drop Into It, and are currently recording their debut album.

During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, their proudest accomplishments include learning to drive and maintain a 36’ motorhome, hitting their year mark on a twice-daily meditation practice, and cutting their teeth on underwater cinematography.

Born in NY and brought up in Minneapolis and St. Louis, Tristan studied architecture at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Design (CDES) and earned their Master of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED).

About the Author

Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Jade Sanchez-Ventura is a writer and radical educator. She works in memoir and her personal essays have been published across an array of online literary journals, and in print with Slice Magazine and Seal Press. Her work has been featured on Bitch Media’s Propaganda podcast and been awarded the Slice Literary Conference “Bridging the Gap” award; a Disquiet Literary conference fellowship; and a Hertog fellowship. She is a regular contributor to MUTHA Magazine, which champions a fiery re-imagining of parenting. As an educator, she is very good at being continually wowed by her students and their words on the page. She believes a commitment to racial equity and social justice is essential to the practice of teaching. She has spent the last decade studying and implementing this pedagogical approach to education with the Brooklyn Free School, an urban democratic free school in New York City. Though she has ties to many countries, she has always made her home in Brooklyn, New York. She’s on Instagram posting about radical parenting, teaching, race, writing, and other such matters; find her @jade_m_sv.

This resource was created, in part, with the generous support of the Open Society Foundation.