bxk is a queer/trans chinese-singaporean multimedia artist whose creative practice interrogates family, 

faith, domestic labor, race, migration, and tenderness. Their art making stems from a deep need 

to make mirrors for their communities to see themselves, to know that the ghosts they struggle with are big 

and real, and to build the power in all difficult and magnificent parts of their being. 

 

For bxk, live performance is a sort of intervention on political and personal complicity, a chance to create gentle moments where people direct their attention inward and consider the heaviness that they have been trying not to carry. Right now, they are using words and food to craft Other realities that capture complex problems such as the past/present/future place of East Asian folks in QTPOC movements, the connection between Christian hegemony and colonized peoples, and the tension between families of ancestry and radical discourse. In the meantime, bxk is also figuring out how to recognize and resist the white bourgeoisie aesthetic in their own taste and work. For the past five years, they have presented in solo and group work at various universities, theaters and galleries in the United States. They are based in Brooklyn, NY.

 

 

Cassandra Euphrat Weston is a writer and performer who is always re-asking & re-answering how she can participate responsibly in spoken word, a historically black art form, as a white person. She’s been trying to write a love poem for years now and hopes she might be getting close. Lately, Cassandra has been reading and writing about history, which is full of white women like her intending to “do good” and instead doing harm. History is also full of queers on the margins as well as the no-longer-marginalized desperate to be back in the middle, all of which Cassandra is excited to be exploring in poems. She believes really deeply that revision is key to any good poem and that full-on weirdness is key to any good performance.

 

Cassandra’s experience over the past five years with youth, college, and adult poetry slams has ranged from participant to coach to organizer; from local to statewide to national; from Mass L.E.A.P. and Youth Speaks/Brave New Voices to CUPSI and NPS. She and bxk were both members of the team that won the Pushing the Art Forward award at CUPSI 2014. Cassandra currently lives, writes, and attends open mics in the Boston area.