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词条 Mirha-Soleil Ross
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  1. Early life

  2. {{anchor|Gendertrash}}gendertrash from hell

  3. Videos

      Videography  

  4. Performance art

  5. Counting Past 2

  6. {{anchor|Social service work in Toronto}}Social service

  7. Awards

  8. References

{{Multiple issues|{{BLP primary sources|date=November 2015}}{{BLP self-published|date=December 2016}}
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|name = Mirha-Soleil Ross|birth_date = 1969
|birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
|known_for = Transsexual, sex-worker and animal-rights activism, films
|nationality=Canadian
|other_names = Jeanne B
}}

Mirha-Soleil Ross is a transsexual videographer, performance artist, sex worker and activist. Her work since the early 1990s in Montreal and Toronto has focused on transsexual rights, access to resources, advocacy for sex workers and animal rights.

Early life

Ross grew up in a poor neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec. As a teenager during the 1980s, she became aware of animal abuse.[1] At that time, Ross became a vegetarian and involved with animal rights activism.[1] She said that although people often ask her what it was like to try to pass as a woman, she struggled much more when she was trying to "pass" as a boy and was often attacked for looking too feminine.[2] Ross moved from Montreal to Toronto during the early 1990s, where she was a sex worker and began producing zines and videos.

{{anchor|Gendertrash}}gendertrash from hell

From 1993 to 1995 Ross and partner Xanthra Phillippa MacKay published gendertrash from hell, a quarterly zine which "[gave] a voice to gender queers, who've been discouraged from speaking out & communicating with each other".[3] They managed the zine's publisher, genderpress, which also distributed other transsexual pamphlets and literature, corresponded with local organizations and sold buttons.

In standard zine format, gendertrash was a combination of art, poetry, resource lists, serialized fiction, calls to action, classified ads, illustrations and collages and movie reviews. By and for transsexual, transgender and transvestite people, it addressed gender experiences at the individual and societal level and prioritized sex workers, low-income queers, trans people of colour and prisoners.[3] Articles frequently addressed the erasure of transsexuals from lesbian, gay, bi and queer communities and the communities' co-opting of trans identities and issues.[4] Five issues of gendertrash were published, and its run ended in 1995.[5]

Videos

Ross' videos, primarily short films, centre on gender, sexuality, animal rights and the humour and beauty of the transsexual body. Her videos are distributed by V tape in Toronto.[6]

Videography

TitleDateCreditsLengthSummary
Chroniques1992Mirha-Soleil Ross12:00Clips from Ross' video diary in which she recounts situations where she had unsafe sex with a client.[7]
An Adventure in Tucking with Jeanne B1993Mirha-Soleil Ross5:00A humorous video that shows Ross attempting to tuck with scotch tape before meeting a client.[8]
Gendertroublemakers1993Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra MacKay20:00Ross and MacKay speak frankly with each other about their sexuality and negative experiences with gay men.[9]
I never would have known: A conversation with Peter Dunnigan1997Mirha-Soleil Ross24:00An interview with Toronto activist and trans man Peter Dunnigan about his transition, sexuality, addiction, and recovery.[10]
Dysfunctional1997Mirha-Soleil Ross9:00A response to society's fascination and repulsion of transsexual bodies.[11]
Journée Internationale de la Transsexualité1998Mirha-Soleil Ross38:00A documentary about the trans women's event hosted by l'Association des Transsexuels-les du Québec.[12]
G-SPrOuT!2000Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky12:00"A cyberspace encounter turns into a trans/polysexual vegan-docu-porno featuring urban veggie lovers speaking out on dating, intimacy and sex in a meat-centered culture."[13]
Tales from the Derrière2000Mirha-Soleil Ross24:51A video of Ross 1999 performance of the same name which featured stories from her work and stories about her anus.[14]
Tremblement de Chair2001Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky3:40"A poetic meditation on the beauty, perils and power of sexuality in a transsexual woman's body."[15]
Madame Lauraine's Transsexual Touch2001Mirha-Soleil Ross, Viviane Namaste, and Monica Forrester34:00A film on safer sex between transsexual sex workers and their clients.[16]
Lullaby2001Mirha-Soleil Ross4:00A video produced as part of Ross performance art piece where she simulated pregnancy for 9 months.[17]
Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore2002Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky74:00A film of Ross' one-woman show by the same name.[18]
Proud Lives2002Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky5:00Film footage of Ross as the grand marshal of Toronto's Pride Parade in 2001.[19]
Allo Performance!2002Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky13:00A video of Ross at the Golden Gate Bridge as part of her 9-month Pregnancy Project.[20]
Materstina (Langue Maternelle)2003Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky11:40"A Czech woman speaks about her exile in Canada and about her sense of loss as it relates to language and her relationship with her children."[21]
Live eXXXpressions: Sex Workers Stand Up2006Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky15:00Footage of Forum XXX, a four-day sex workers' activist event held in Montréal in May 2005.[22]
Brandee aka Lana Lamarre2007Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky3:00A memorial video for the performer Brandee, who passed away in 2007.[23]
Les Vérités Vo(i)lées2007Mirha-Soleil Ross31:45A look at sex workers' response to panic and scapegoating of sex workers for the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs.[24]

Performance art

Ross produced a one-woman show, Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore, based on her sex work and activism, at the 2002 Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts and in 2004 at the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.[25] The show intended to educate audiences about issues facing sex workers and refute stereotypes contributing to violence against them.[26] Yapping Out Loud also incorporated Ross' animal-rights activism with images of coyotes and comparisons between oppression faced by sex workers and coyotes, inspired by the American sex-worker organization Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics.[25] In 2001 and 2002 she performed a nine-month Pregnancy Project, appearing in public with a prosthetic belly to have conversations about gender, motherhood and the possibility of womb transplants for transsexuals.[27]

Counting Past 2

In 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2002 Ross ran Counting Past 2 (CP2), a transsexual and transgender film, video, performance and spoken-word festival which provided a space for transsexual and transgender people to speak for themselves without catering to the aesthetic standards or curiosity of cisgender audiences.[28] The festival's goal was to be more inclusive and encouraging of trans artists than mainstream gay and lesbian film festivals by centring trans voices, accepting less-polished work and including cabaret and performance components instead of restricting submissions to films.[29] Performers included Aiyyana Maracle and Max Wolf Valerio.[30] In a 2007 interview with Viviane Namaste, Ross said that her efforts with CP2 to create transsexual spaces outside a lesbian and gay framework had failed and she regretted that those spaces had disappeared or been absorbed by the LGBT community.[31]

{{anchor|Social service work in Toronto}}Social service

During the 1990s and early 2000s, Ross was involved in social-service work for the transsexual and sex-worker communities in Toronto. In 1999 she was the founding coordinator of Meal-Trans at the 519 Church Street Community Centre, a drop-in program offering meals and peer support to trans people. Ross was involved in the general expansion of the 519's trans programs, providing services for transsexuals who are HIV positive and sex workers and founding peer-support groups for trans men and trans women with colleague Rupert Raj.[32]

Ross and her friends worked to improve access to social services for Toronto transsexuals, particularly those who were sex workers, HIV-positive, low-income or immigrants.[33] She worked with women's shelters, community centres and sex-worker organizations such as Maggie's to improve access and educate service providers.[34] As a sex worker, Ross was involved in pushing back against efforts by residents' organizations in the Gay Village and Allan Gardens areas to expel sex workers.[35]

Awards

Ross has received several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. Her video, Mateřština (co-directed with Mark Karbusicky), won the Marian McMahon Award at the 2004 Images Festival in Toronto.[36] In 2001, Ross was the Grand Marshal of Toronto's Pride Parade.[37] In 2011, she was inducted into Canada's Q Hall of Fame.[38]

References

1. ^1 {{cite web|url = http://www.satyamag.com/oct03/ross.html|title = Satya Oct 03: Interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross|work = satyamag.com|quote=In the mid-80s, when I was about 16 years old, I watched a TV documentary about fur that included footage of animals caught in snares and leg-hold traps. It changed my life forever.|accessdate=14 December 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305080223/http://www.satyamag.com/oct03/ross.html|archivedate=5 March 2016|deadurl=no}}
2. ^{{Cite book|title = Whore Carnival|last = Bell|first = Shannon|publisher = Autonomedia|year = 1995|isbn = |location = New York|pages = 141}}
3. ^1 {{Cite book|title = gendertrash from hell, vol 1|last = Mackay|first = Xanthra Phillippa|publisher = genderpress|year = 1993|isbn = |location = Toronto, ON|pages = |last2 = Ross|first2 = Mirha-Soleil|url = http://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/337}}
4. ^{{Cite book|title = Sex Change Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism|last = Namaste|first = Viviane|publisher = Canadian Scholars' Press|year = 2011|isbn = |location = Toronto, ON|pages = 121}}
5. ^{{Cite book|title = gendertrash from hell, vol. 5|last = Mackay|first = Xanthra Phillippa|publisher = genderpress|year = 1995|isbn = |location = Toronto, ON|pages = |last2 = Ross|first2 = Mirha-Soleil}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/artist?ai=101|title = Artist: Mirha-Soleil Ross|date = n.d.|accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = V Tape|first = }}
7. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=1447|title = Chroniques|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
8. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=3635|title = An Adventure in Tucking with Jeanne B|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
9. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=3636|title = Gendertroublemakers|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
10. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=3637|title = I never would have known: A conversation with Peter Dunnigan|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
11. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=3735|title = Dysfunctional|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
12. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=4936|title = Journée Internationale de la Transsexualité|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
13. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=4462|title = G-SPrOuT!|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
14. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=4521|title = Tales from the Derriere|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
15. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=4701|title = Tremblement de Chair|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
16. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=4811|title = Madame Lauraine's Transsexual Touch|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
17. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=4854|title = Lullaby|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
18. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=5043|title = Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
19. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=5074|title = Proud Lives|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
20. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=5075|title = Allo Performance!|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
21. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=5261|title = Materstina (Langue Maternelle)|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
22. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=6184|title = Live eXXXpressions: Sex Workers Stand Up|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
23. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=6762|title = Brandee aka Lana Lamarre|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
24. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=6763|title = Les Vérités Vo(i)lées|date = |accessdate = |website = V tape|publisher = |last = |first = }}
25. ^1 Salah, T. (2007). What's All the Yap? Reading Mirha-Soleil Ross's Performance of Activist Pedagogy. Canadian Theater Review.
26. ^{{Cite news|url = http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/sex-trade-imbalance-56105|title = Sex trade imbalance|last = |first = |date = April 17, 2002|work = Xtra!|access-date = |via = }}
27. ^{{Cite news|url = http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/prides-special-people-56343|title = Pride's special people|last = Brown|first = Eleanor|date = June 13, 2001|work = Xtra!|access-date = |via = }}
28. ^{{Cite book|title = Sex Change Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism|last = Namaste|first = Viviane|publisher = Canadian Scholars' Press|year = 2011|isbn = |location = Toronto, ON|pages = 67–68|chapter = Examining Transsexuals' Access to the Media: Beyond Image Content}}
29. ^{{cite book |title="cabaret performance and the social politics of scene-making" |last=Cowan |first=T. L. |work=More Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women |publisher=yyz |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-920397-64-0 |editor-last=Householder & Mars |location=Toronto & Montreal |pages= |quote= |via=}}
30. ^{{Cite book|title = Counting Past 2 Program|last = Ross|first = Mirha-Soleil|publisher = |year = 1998|isbn = |location = |pages = }}
31. ^{{Cite book|title = Sex Change Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism|last = Namaste|first = Viviane|publisher = Canadian Scholars' Press|year = 2011|isbn = |location = Toronto, ON|pages = 121|chapter = "Activists can't go on forever acting in the abstract.": An Interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross}}
32. ^{{Cite news|url = |title = When she was a boy|last = |first = |date = June 15, 1999|work = Xtra!|access-date = |via = }}
33. ^{{Cite book|title = Sex Change Social Change|last = Namaste|first = Viviane|publisher = Canadian Scholars' Press|year = 2011|isbn = |location = Toronto, ON.|pages = 118|chapter = "Activists can't go on forever acting in the abstract.": An Interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross}}
34. ^{{Cite web|url = http://maggiestoronto.ca/uploads/File/POWER_Report_TheToolbox.pdf|title = The Toolbox: What Works for Sex Workers (p.38-41)|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}
35. ^Rebecka Sheffield, "Trans Programming at the 519 Church Street Community Centre: A Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship" (Toronto:CAMH, 2011), 7.
36. ^Irving, D. "Against the Grain: Teaching Transgender Human Rights." Sexualities (2013): 319-35. Print.
37. ^{{Cite web|title = Pride Toronto {{!}} June 2015|url = http://m.worldpridetoronto.com/about/history/2000-present|website = m.worldpridetoronto.com|accessdate = }}
38. ^{{Cite web|title = Inductees Q Hall of Fame|url = http://www.qhalloffame.ca/index.php/inductees|website = www.qhalloffame.ca|accessdate = 2016-01-10}}
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