Ben Singer

Ben and Ksenya will produce a multi-disciplinary event that will use visual media, art, skill sharing, dialogic education, and musical performance, to develop greater solidarity with trans* and gender non conforming people in the prison industrial complex and other gendered spaces of confinement.   The event will provide an opportunity to educate members of trans* and gender non conforming communities and other participants, on how and why this issue is important to us all.  The multi-disciplinary event is also intended to strengthen community ties in an effort to generate support and to fight for justice for socially destabilized members of our communities.

Ben will produce a digital oral history about the late Roberta Morris, a trans-identified Philadelphia-based painter, which will serve as the launching point for a larger project, the “Philadelphia Trans-history Digital Storytelling Project”. Ben’s goal is to document trans-specific histories of Philadelphia that have been or are close to being lost. Ben hopes to eventually dissolve negative social attitudes toward trans-identified and gender non-confirming people by making visible trans-specific lives and events.