Call For Submissions – Desire: A Girl’s Guide to Dreaming – Queer Women of Color Writing Critically on the Erotic
///Who are we?
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Pak Soo Na is a Corean-born video artist, writer, and storyteller. Soo Na is honored to dedicate her work to the well-being,
self-naming, and healing of young womyn of color and little girls everywhere. Her art is informed by oceans, breathing, memory, and the heart. Find her writing in the anthology, ‘Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption,’ and the zine, ‘Tigers and Rabbits: Writings by Korean [North] American Women on Ending Violence and for the Power of love.’ She is a graduate of Hampshire College. In 2005, Soo Na was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Corea. Her documentary, ‘The Silence Between Oceans,’ screened at the 13th Annual UC Santa Cruz Women of Color Film Festival. A self-published book, ‘Child-as-gift-of-Amnesia,’ is companion to her documentary. In the past, she facilitated workshops on young women of color and sexual health, and transracial adoption. She is moving toward performance art, centering her work around her body and movement. Between dreaming, she lives and loves in New York.
Sherisse Alvarez is a Cuban-American writer and yoga teacher interested in the poetry of the body, dislocation, and memory. A
graduate of Hampshire College, she concentrated in writing, art, and cultural studies. Her thesis was a multi-media exhibition titled ‘Splitting Fruit: Notes Toward Womanist Artistic Practice.’ Her work has appeared in Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology,’ and ‘Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Identity, and Sexuality.’ Most recently, she worked at the Yale University School of Art where she served as curator For ‘Intersections/Intersecciones,’ an exhibition of 13 intergenerational Cuban artists. She currently lives in New Jersey.
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