Happy New Year to everyone // Feliz año nuevo a tod*s !!!

This is going to be a winter full of snow (oh yes, boooo) and projects and events.
First of all, I’m redoing this site web. Second I’m working on a graphic novel called The Book of Hometowns around issues of queernes, Hispanic culture in Canada, migration and belonging. The book is in English and Spanish, just like my brain. Third, I’m doing the research of the drawing projet Los Fantasmas about the recuperation of historical memory in contemporary Spain. This is a very sad and overwhelming project that i’m extremely proud of.  Thank you for listening. Last but not least, the news:

* Elisha Lim and Coco Riot have created a drawing blog on “inspired by the fact that we’re trans. Not trans as in “she becoming he”, or “he becoming a she” – but trans as in neither he nor she, as in “they becoming they”. Do you use “they” too? For your gender pronoun? For your despair with words? Or in general rebellion?” Check it out Call Me They

* Coco will be reading from The Book of Hometowns and Los Fantasmas at the opening of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute Library (2170 Bishop, Montreal) on Thursday January 19th from 5pm

* Art and Activism panel with Freda Guttman, Malcolm Guy, Vincent Tinguely and Coco Riot, with Kevin Lo as moderator at Cagibi (5490 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal) on Thursday January 26th at 6pm.

* Opening of the Call Me They exhibition by Elisha Lim and Coco Riot at Venus Envy (320 Lisgar Street, Ottawa) on February 5th

* Coco Riot will be designing the images for an INDISORDER t-shirt, an amazing and very respectful t-shirt designer company based in Sevilla, Barcelona and Milan. The t-shirt will be screenprinted and numbered, and only 200 will be sold to the public. Don’t panick, they will be ready in March, you still have time.