Gender Crash Feature Schedule

With two features for July!
Tamrin Willey and the film "TRANNYCHASERS: A Skateboard Roadtrip"
and
Thea Hillman - San Francisco Poetry Slam Champion and author of her new book "For Lack of a Better Word"

Tamrin Willey was born in Massachusetts in 1978. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2002. Working with Super 8 film and video she exposes her audience to unique underground
experiences through the eyes of a queer female-bodied tomboy skateboarder inspired by outsider subcultures and alternative
lifestyles.
THE FILM: "TRANNYCHASERS: A Skateboard Roadtrip" is edited documentation of two young gender variant queer friends on a roadtrip around the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest desert. Motivated by a passion for skateboarding, they drive over 5,000 miles in two weeks sampling some of the most dreamed about skate terrain west of Colorado, while documenting their transforming personas from typical 15-year-old obnoxious skater boys to thick-skinned guarded adult women, trying to avoid trouble withing homophobic and sexist spaces.

Thea Hillman
Has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Berkeley Review of Fiction, On Our Backs, and Cometbus, among others. Thea performed a birdcall on The Tonight Show, was on the cover of the Oakland phone book, but is most proud of her tag-team haiku championship title. Her first book, Depending on the Light, was published by Manic D Press in 2001. Her second book, For Lack of a Better Word, has just been published in May 2007 by Suspect Thoughts Press.