Disrupting Linearity and 2 Spirit Body Reclamation: Coyote Park
Episode 36
Coyote Park is a Two Spirit artist, oral historian, and educator.
Coyote Park is a Two Spirit artist, oral historian, and educator. They are Yurok (with their ancestral homelands being near the Klamath river), German, and Korean. Coyote grew up in Honolulu, Hawai'i and moved to New York when they were 18. Currently, they have relocated to Los Angeles where they are doing online lectures, finishing up schooling, and multi-media work.
They cofounded ENBY Spoken Histories with Angel Labarte. ENBY Spoken Histories is a storytelling archive with the trans community, as it centers nonbinary, 2spirit, gnc, intersex, and genderqueer voices. The archive is preserved within the Library of Congress and ENBY Spoken Histories has a partnership with Storycorps. In the past, they have had multiple recording sessions in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Hawai'i. There were set recording dates that had been pushed back due to Covid-19. However, on a digital platform ENBY Spoken histories has been hosting zoom parties with performances, book club meetings, and has done one healing circle run by QTPOC facilitators. Coyote's personal practice is documentary photography where they photograph the intimate moments within their daily life and trans family.
They have also been curating a QTPOC dream zine, working on other written projects with artists in their community spaces, and have been utilizing social media as a tool for connection for Trans youth and emotional resonance for other trans folks. Coyote is passionate about building a framework of understanding of gender outside of the colonial gender systems and uses their work as an outlet to vocalize those narratives.
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