Simon Strikeback

    Filmmaker - Producer
    Musician - Vocals, Ukulele

 

  Simon Strikeback is an activist and educator focusing in history, gender studies and   performance and has been an organizer of various campaigns and gatherings, primarily   related to queer and transgender issues for the past ten years. While pursuing a women’s   studies degree at DePaul University, Simon became interested in justice organizing around   workers’ rights and queer visibility projects. From 1999-2005, He was a lead organizer in   Camp Trans, a a protest and community space fighting for the inclusion of transwomen at the   annual Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.

  In this vein, he has given presentations at numerous universities throughout the US,   addressing ideas of feminism as it relates to transgender issues.

Simon was born into a family of musicians and was trained from an early age. After playing in many groups throughout the years, it was while living at a queer arts commune in rural Tennessee that he began to play the ukulele and sing, while developing an appreciate for traditional bluegrass music. In the music duet Actor Slash Model Simon sings, plays ukulele and writes songs.

He is currently a graduate student at The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and works with ChiChiCo, a multi-racial child care collective. At this time Simon is also the editor of the self-produced zine Bound To Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet, accepting open submissions for Volume 3. You may contact him directly with interests, or to acquire past issues. http://www.myspace.com/boundtostruggle

 

 

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