*VIRTUAL ONLY unless otherwise discussed*
Areas of Interest
Movement Building, Cultural Work, Community Art & Performance; Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality, and Disability; Disability Justice; Asian Pacific-Islander American Culture; Mixed/Hapa issues; Queer & Transgender Justice; Critical Food Issues; Poor & Working Class perspectives.
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Kay is available virtually for the following:
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Keynotes & Performances (Partial List)
2023
Beyond Baroque
Google Advisory Board
Lambda Literary Fellowship Retreat
Lambda Literary Awards
Split This Rock
Tin House
The Whitney Museum of Modern Art
2022
The Dodge Poetry Festival
Lambda Literary Review
The Museum of Modern Art
In The Know + Yahoo News
Syracuse University
Young Chicago Authors
Zoeglossia
2021
The Wallace Foundation, Artist Salon
Columbia University
CSU Stanislaus State
Ford Foundation, Artist Spotlight
Books are Magic + Pamela Sneed
2020
CHANGE Philanthropy, Unity Summer
Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender College Conference
Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writer’s Conference
University of Arizona
2019
The Bowery Poetry Club
The New School Poets Showcase
The Poets House, June Jordan Celebration
Symphony Space, Stonewall 50
2018
Dodge Poetry, Whose Body?
Lambda Lit Fest, Main Panel
NYU: Trans* Historicities
Split This Rock
Tucson Poetry Festival
2017
AHEAD Conference
Brown Paper Zine & Small Press Fair
Creating Change
Lambda Literary Review Day Governor’s Island
Lesbians of Color Symposium
Lincoln Center Forum
Thinking Its Presence
Queer Students of Color Conference
2016
Gay Straight Alliance Summit of PA
Just Food Conference
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New York City Poetry Festival
Queer, Ill, & Okay Festival
The TRANS LIST
2015
Allied Media Conference
Queer People of Color College Conference
Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference
INCITE! Color Of Violence
Queer Survival Economics Conference
2014
Asian Desi Pacific Islander Freedom School
IvyQ Conference, Princeton University
2013
QPOCC Conference UCLA
Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference
Philadelphia Trans Health Conference
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2014-2015
WORKSHOPS
Seminars (100+ participants) for any of the following offered workshops are on a rolling + case-by-case basis by request only. Please inquire for details & pricing.
Liberation Shows Up!: Ableism 101 (intro to Disability Justice)
This workshop dares us to understand and adore our whole selves. Being Disabled, Sick, Chronically Ill, Deaf, and/or being Brilliant/Crazy are often understood as flaws. Also as a Queer and a Person of Color, you ultimately survive struggle heightened by ableism. The truth is, we face all struggles simultaneously! Paying homage to audre lorde: “I do not believe in single-issue politics, because we do not live single-issue lives,” Participants will discuss avenues of critical intersections as brown, poor, trans, immigrant, disabled, other. How do competition and respectability politics impose ableism on our actions, our lives? How do we embrace a politic that doesn’t isolate or accommodate, but engages everyday movements to show up for everyone? How can we come to a place of honoring ourselves fully? You are invited to embrace our sexy, complicated, sacred, powerful, and amazing lineage as an SDQ (Sick & Disabled Queer). Everyone is encouraged to participate, but priority will be offered to those who live with SDQ (Sick & Disabled Queer/Transgender Indigenous or People of Color) experiences. Participants are asked to please bring their journals and/or writing materials.
max participants: up to 45 participants
timeframe: 2-3 hours. can be attended in sessions of 3 **
Undoing to become: uplifting the body, living the word
Kay Ulanday Barrett will delve into topics of self-testimony in this interdisciplinary workshop of performance, writing, and story telling from perspectives that center QTPOC as living archive and cultural resistance. Participants will share narratives they’ve been told of truth and transformation. How do we move collectively to reclaim and invent empowering stories for stronger visions and action? How do we channel stories that impact us as surviving and communities in struggle? What does artistic prep and aftercare feel like when telling resistance stories? What does spiritual support and aftercare look like when committed to political art? Self-care is only the beginning when systemic oppression gets you hella down. Resources on self-care, Art by Queer and Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color will be highlighted and explored. Cultural work is visceral work. Workshop participants are asked to dress in comfortable clothing, and to bring their journals and/or writing materials.
max participants: 30
timeframe: 1.5 hours
Theater Poetics + Unpacking
Poet and playwright Sharon Bridgforth says of her work, “like most things that I do, it started inside of my own bone marrow and blood memories.” In what ways do we write our memories as People of Color and Queer people? How do we survive in literary traditions and forms beyond those, like the literary canon, embedded in straight, white, and abled limitations? More over, how to we embody out words responsibly and with the highest impact possible? This session will explore how we disrupt and transform narratives of “normal” in our performance to include stories, performance, and experiences of disability, race, gender, and/or class.
max participants: 100
timeframe: 1.5- 2 hours
WE fight back!
Learn how your voice & body can control situations that are threatening or dangerous. unfortunately the of color &/or queer community are constantly facing violence– whether in our homes or streets. We will review basic strikes, blocks, kicks, and verbal techniques to help us engage our spirits towards confidence. Uplift yourself & come dressed in comfortable clothing.
Kay Barrett is a 2nd degree blackbelt in tae kwon do & has trained for over 12 years. As a former instructor & coach, Kay now concentrates on primarily of color, LGBTQQ, & youth community-based social justice self-defense/martial arts.
max participants: 30
timeframe: 2- 2.5 hours