With a pedigree from weekly performances at the late, iconic Esta Noche, Per Sia’s trajectory has gone on to include art curation, stand-up, television, and maybe a quinceañera or two, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and México. Currently, she is a regular performer in the nationally acclaimed “Drag Story Hour” as well as an educator in residence at an after-school arts program in the San Francisco Unified School District profiled on KQED Arts, National Public Radio and CNN.
Ali R. Blake is a teaching artist and education researcher cultivating spaces for people to imagine and create the worlds we want to live in together— definitely more queer and more trans worlds! When Ali is not drawing, reading, writing, gardening, singing and dancing while cooking, or cuddling with cats, they organize a queer and trans communal clothing making space rooted in multidimensional struggles for self-determination. If you’re lucky, you may meet them performing, too, as Al iteration.