About
Ignacio G Rivera is a Two-Spirit, Black-Boricua Taíno, queer performance artist, activist, filmmaker, lecturer and sex educator who prefers the gender neutral pronoun “they.”
Ignacio has been sharing spoken word, one-person shows, and storytelling internationally. Ignacio’s body of work has focused on gender and sexuality; specifically on queer, trans, kink and sexual liberation issues within a race/class dynamic.
Their written work has appeared in ColorLines, Ebony, Yellow Medicine Review and in their chapbooks, Las Alas, co-authored by Maceo Cabrera Estévez; Ingridients; and Thoughts, Rants and What Some Might Call Poetry. Ignacio is the recipient of a Marsha A. Gómez Cultural Heritage Award from LLEGÓ: The National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization
As a lecturer/trainer, Ignacio has spoken at home and abroad on such topics of racism, sexism, homo/transphobia, transgender issues, sexual liberation, anti-oppression, anti-violence, multi-issue organizing and more. Ignacio has consultant with various organizations in New York City conducting professional development trainings for NYC high school staff.
As a filmmaker Ignacio has produced a short called “Crossing”’ which has played in film festivals internationally. Crossing is an experimental adult short about crossing the realm of normality and kink. It is a narrative short that explores opinions on negotiation, communication and kink.
Their seconds short called “They”, which debuted at the NYC Mix film Festival in October 2008 is also and experimental short. “They” is a short about Ignacio Rivera’s gender fluidity.
Ignacio has just completed working on their third short entitled “Transient”. It is a video-diary-style experimental film about the consciousness of identity within travel. Transient touches on issues of ego-centrism, tolerance and gender attribution.
Lastly, Ignacio is also one of the founding board member of Queers for Economic Justice; a progressive non-profit organization
committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation.
Ignacio has been sharing spoken word, one-person shows, and storytelling internationally. Ignacio’s body of work has focused on gender and sexuality; specifically on queer, trans, kink and sexual liberation issues within a race/class dynamic.
Their written work has appeared in ColorLines, Ebony, Yellow Medicine Review and in their chapbooks, Las Alas, co-authored by Maceo Cabrera Estévez; Ingridients; and Thoughts, Rants and What Some Might Call Poetry. Ignacio is the recipient of a Marsha A. Gómez Cultural Heritage Award from LLEGÓ: The National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization
As a lecturer/trainer, Ignacio has spoken at home and abroad on such topics of racism, sexism, homo/transphobia, transgender issues, sexual liberation, anti-oppression, anti-violence, multi-issue organizing and more. Ignacio has consultant with various organizations in New York City conducting professional development trainings for NYC high school staff.
As a filmmaker Ignacio has produced a short called “Crossing”’ which has played in film festivals internationally. Crossing is an experimental adult short about crossing the realm of normality and kink. It is a narrative short that explores opinions on negotiation, communication and kink.
Their seconds short called “They”, which debuted at the NYC Mix film Festival in October 2008 is also and experimental short. “They” is a short about Ignacio Rivera’s gender fluidity.
Ignacio has just completed working on their third short entitled “Transient”. It is a video-diary-style experimental film about the consciousness of identity within travel. Transient touches on issues of ego-centrism, tolerance and gender attribution.
Lastly, Ignacio is also one of the founding board member of Queers for Economic Justice; a progressive non-profit organization
committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation.
