Voyager (J.W.W. Parker)
"My literature, poetry, and performance creep, linger, and vitalize. Drag channels spirits, stage is altar, body - vessel, voice - instrument of truth. Let's play dolls, rip fabric, burst paper mache wombs, disembowel guts, collage fears, paint face dangerous. Due to queer worlds, transgender experience, and Slavic-American ethnicity, I make art to integrate my fractured self. Do we fortify facades around spirit or feed flames of the divine self? I am Josefine W. W. Parker. I am Ruby L. L. Voyager. I am Voyager. I create for sissies to discover holiness, so we may project our prismatic multitudes on end."
Awarded Grants
2014
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Voyager created and distributed For Wildness to Bloom, writing on laser hair removal and castration. A series of tracts, self-published handmade books, it is a call-to-action to ground self-love and the sacred in our transitions. For Wildness to Bloom provides new strategies in trans and women's liberation to dream the surgery and medicine we need. Voyager hosted a release event and shared tools to heal through performance and ritual. In these tracts, Voyager provokes conversations around ancestry, transgender identity, and trauma.
