Black, Indigenous, &
Trans of Color Histories Lab
A free, multimedia zine by, for, and about trans historyworkers of color. Drawing connections across the diaspora both temporally and geographically, while offering new methods for creative scholarship:• art, folklore, and mythology as decolonial history;
• memory work as activism;
• community care through preservation;
• historiographic reparations.
A free, virtual launch event for the Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab. Our co-organizers will host discussions with fellow scholars exploring each of their zine articles.
Zine Volumes
• Volume 1: Local Imaginaries, Global Resistance
Blog Series
Coming Soon
Virtual Symposia
Coming Soon
In-Person Roundtables
Coming Soon
National Convening
Coming Soon
Humanists-in-Residence
• Call for Applications 2025
Experimental Projects & Workshops
Coming Soon
Delan Ellington
(they/he)
Nathalie Nia Faulk
(she/they)
Alejandrina M. Medina
(she/ella)
Joshua K. Reason
(they/them)
fabian romero
(they/them)
GVGK Tang
(any pronouns)
Delan Ellington (they/he) earned a master’s degree in public history from Howard University in 2022. Their research has focused on collecting and preserving Black queer DC history, emphasizing spaces like the ClubHouse and ENIK Alley Coffeehouse. Delan has served on the Rainbow History Project's board of directors. Their work has been featured in documentaries and recognized in the Washington City Paper’s 2021 People Issue. Delan presented at TEDxFoggyBottom 2022 addressing Trans visibility in archives. Delan has served as an organizer with the Black Youth Project 100, Harriet's Wildest Dreams, and No Justice No Pride, championing housing and aid for trans youth.
Nathalie Nia Faulk (she/her) is a self-described Ebony Southern Belle based in New Orleans. Her work blends performance, History, Healing Justice, and Cultural Organizing. Currently, she serves as Co-Director of Southern Organizer Academy, Co-Director of Last Call Oral History Project, and as the Cultural Organizing Programs Manager for Alternate ROOTS. She serves on the Boards of Transcending Women, BreakOUT!, LOUD Queer Youth Theatre, and PFLAG NOLA. She has performed across the country in Alleged Lesbian Activities, Personal Space, and InFringe Fest. Nia believes everyone is inherently valuable and beautiful and collectively, we can manifest everything!
Alejandrina M. Medina is an experimental writer whose work theorizes state power, aesthetic production, and sensorial knowledge through 20th and 21st Century Latinx/Latin American music, sound, and performance. She holds a BM in Performance Studies from Lawrence University and is pursuing a PhD in Integrative Studies with an emphasis in Critical Gender Studies at UC San Diego. Her dissertation on LOUDNESS is a love letter to depressed trans Latinas who feel like they’re too much. She sits on the executive board of Proyecto Trans Latina. She can usually be found yearning queerly, with her cat María Carmen, or singing a bolero at karaoke—ideally all three.
Joshua K. Reason (they/them) is a transdisciplinary, multimodal scholar-artist from the Bay Area. Their research and creative work are rooted in a fervent commitment to connect the aesthetics, longings, and political strivings of Black communities across the Americas. Their work has been published in The Black Scholar, The Journal of American Culture, The Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, and becoming undisciplined: a zine. In addition to finishing their PhD in Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Joshua is producing a documentary about Black : Indigenous LGBTQIAPN+ artists in Northern-Northeastern Brazil.
fabian (P’urhépecha) is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Studies and affiliated faculty in American Indian and Ethnic Studies at the Ohio State University. Fabian’s work explores the manifestations of colonial heteropatriarchy in contemporary mestizo P’urhépecha heritage family structures in Michoacán and the diaspora. You can find their work in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity, Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices, and their self-published chapbook Mountains of Another Kind.
GVGK Tang is a public historian, digital humanist, and media scholar. GVGK has served as a researcher for the Smithsonian, National Endowment for the Humanities, John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, and Historical Society of Pennsylvania. GVGK has been published by Oxford University Press, The American Archivist, and UCLA Design Media Arts. GVGK has served on the National Council on Public History’s Inclusion and Long Range Planning Committees, and co-chaired the Society for Queer Asian Studies. GVGK organizes The T4T Project (a zine by/for/about trans artists & storytellers of color) and Kin/Folk/Lore (a community-led oral history project in Philadelphia).
PROJECTS
• The Black Trans Archive
• Black Trans Archives
• Black Trans Stories Matter
• Comfrey Films
• Heaux History Project
• Last Call Oral History Project
• Louisiana Trans Oral History Project
• NYC Trans Oral History Project
• Paradise on the Margins: Worldmaking by Trans Women of Color
• River Furnace
• The T4T Project
• TransLash MediaGROUPS
• Black Trans Femmes in the Arts
• Black Trans Media
• Black Transwomen, Inc.
• Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement
• The Frances Thompson Writers Studio For Black Trans Study
• The Marsha P. Johnson Institute
• Proyecto Trans Latina
• Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform
• Transgender Education Foundation
• Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project
• Trans-Latinx DMV
• Trans People of Color Coalition
• Trans Sistas of Color Project
• Trans Women of Color Collective
• Trans Women of Color Solidarity NetworkFUNDS
• Black Trans Connection
• Black Trans Fund
• BlackTransFutures
• Black Trans Travel Fund
• Pay Black Trans Women
• SettlerSaturday
• Third Wave Fund
• Trans Justice Funding Project