2015-2018 co-founder of QTPOC Drop the Mic, a bi-annual open mic night presented by QPOC Winnipeg, featuring poetry, performance, and comedy by queer and trans artists of colour.
Drop the Mic coincided with Genderfest Winnipeg, Pride Winnipeg, Black History Month, and C2C: Two-Spirit and QPOC Call to Conversation Conference.
Archives
October 20, 2017, QTPOC Drop the Mic: C2C Edition, C2C: Two-Spirit and QPOC Call to Conversation Conference – Joshua Whitehead and Hiromi Goto, Len David, Victoria Inglis, Malaikah Rang’inya, User Unknown, and WOKE comedy hour’s Elissa Black Wolf Kixen, Sasha Mark, and Danielle Kayahara; hosted by Chimwemwe Undi
June 4, 2017, QTPOC Drop the Mic#6, Pride Winnipeg – Kev aka SlayTana, Kari Labun, Queentite, Jacq Pelland, Rampage, Autumn Crossman, Len, Devon Delorme, Mariana Cañadas; hosted by Hazim Ismail
February 11, 2017, QTPOC Drop the Mic #5, Genderfest Winnipeg – Sharanpal Ruprai, Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie, MC Woke, User unknown, Like That, Hazim, Malaikah Rang’inya; hosted by Serenity Joo
June 15, 2016, QTPOC DTM #4 with Vivek Shraya, Pride Winnipeg – Vivek Shraya, Adrienne Yeung, Tharuna Abbu, Edmund, Chimwemwe Undi, Devon Delorme, Hazim Ismail; hosted by CJ
February 9, 2016, QTPOC Drop the Mic #3, Genderfest Winnipeg – Edmund, Tasha Spillett, Victoria Perrie, Autumn Crossman, Seigred Cortez, Like That, Urban Indigenous Theatre Co. (Siigwan Ferland, Brenda Pollok, & Victoria Perrie); hosted by Alexa Joy Potashnik
June 14, 2015, QTPOC Drop the Mic #2, Pride Winnipeg – Rosanna Deerchild, Kitty Kittie, Aisha Walker, Mariana, CJ, Alexa Potashnik, Shimby Zegeye, Olivia Onuk, Mona Mousa, Chubrub Productions
February 11, 2015, QTPOC Drop the Mic, Genderfest Winnipeg – Rosanna Deerchild, Chimwemwe Undi, Kitty Kittie, Tavis Walker, Mariana, QueenTite, Scarlet Gray, CJ, Olivia Onuk, Trish Salah
Header photo: Hiromi Goto at Drop the Mic #7: C2C, by Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie.
CHRISTINA HAJJAR 