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8PM ET | 7PM CT | 5PM PT
In collaboration with our friends at Alamo Area Resource Center in San Antonio, we bring you a special event in honor of Pride.
Join us for a celebration of music thanks to DJ Underground Soul, comedy, and learning about trans science and health.
This event will have adult content and language, just in case there will be young ears around.
All donations will go to supporting LGBTQ young people via Fiesta Youth.
If you’d like to do a little reading in advance of our event, we encourage you to check out the link below for a Gender Diversity Crash Course.
Our speakers
Lorena Russi (she/her/sir) - Event Host
Queens native, Lorena Russi, is a Queer-Latinx pro soccer player turned comedian and filmmaker.
Lorena’s 9 year background in comedy and education ranges from hosting Amazon Live to Head Writer for Spotify’s "Game Plan” to working on “The Late Show w/ Stephen Colbert” Digital team. Her bilingual Dad jokes have been featured on Will Smith's Snapchat as well as The New York Times, Oscars, Comedy Central, Vice, PBS, and Refinery29.
Outside of comedy, Lorena is an ex-pro soccer player that daydreams about symmetrical knees. You can catch her skills with Nike NYC or providing color commentary and social media takeovers for the MLS.
Lorena has some projects in development including a scripted series for linear tv, three digital series as well as a podcast. All are heavily influenced by her immigrant guilt.
J. Nyla McNeill (they/them/theirs)
J. Nyla McNeill identifies as Black-Pinxy, pangender, and queer. They are a scholar of high honors, as well as a writer, early career researcher, educator, poet, and musician. Their current work focusses on empowerment and holism for transgender people of color, and integrates trans, Black, Pinxy autonomous praxis, self- and community-love, performance, and qualitative scientific methodologies.
They will be talking about “Shifting Perspective: Transphobia to Cissexism”, empowering the audience to understand a necessary paradigm shift in the field, moving away from identifying single instances of transphobia to recognizing the full system of cissexism.
Find J. Nyla on Instagram as: @mx.jvn or @mx.lifestyling. Follow or support their work here.
Stephanie Budge (she/her/hers)
Dr. Stephanie Budge focuses her research and activism efforts on transgender and gender diverse people. She studies emotional and coping processes for transgender youth and adults, as well as the effectiveness of medical and psychotherapeutic treatments for transgender clients.
Stephanie will be talking about her research in trans-affirmative therapy, resiliency and wellness for LGBTQ people.
Find out more about Stephanie and her work on her website.