| Ignacio Rivera is a queer, Black Boricua, highly seasoned and
experienced community organizer and consultant. He is also a poet
/performance artist and self proclaimed sex educator.
Ignacio’s consulting and organizing work specializes in racial,
class and economic justice issues, multi-issue non-theoretical framework
and cultural competency. Ignacio provides training's, workshops and
consultation services in organizational development, cultural competency,
strategic planning and multi-issue organizing.
As a performance artist he has shared his words in many arenas
including, the Nuyorican Poet's Café, University of Connecticut,
Yale University, Tuffs University, Bluestockings Women's Bookstore
and in other venues. Ignacio had been published and was selected
by the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund poetry judges to receive
an Honorable Mention. Rivera is currently performing his one person
show: Lágrimas de Cocodrilo/ Crocodile Tears and INGRID-ients
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Lágrimas de Cocodrilo / Crocodile Tears is a brief experience,
into spoken word activist Ignacio Rivera's tale of survival via poetic
monologues. Lágrimas is a journey into one's struggle
with female-on-female child sexual abuse and incest; coming out
and accepting his lesbianism and raising a daughter in the midst
of recovery.
INGRID-ients is a chapbook and spoken-word, performance
and readings of various poems. INGRID-ients is a multi-poetic expression
of Ignacio Rivera’s multiple identified life. It covers topics
of identity (lesbianism, race), motherhood, white supremacy, war,
Love and much more.
His new shows in progress are the following:
•Images, a multi media one-woman show depicting the
societal constructs and media representation of women. The show
deconstructs how we, as women, absorb and internalize the images
depicted through magazines, television, newspapers and other forms
of media. We are most often not satisfied with our bodies and are
on a continuous search for an ideal due to expectations, social
constructs and internalized ideals.
•Crabs in a Barrel, a multi-media art installation,
silent slide show about oppression, stigma, divisiveness and prejudice
among oppressed and marginalized groups of people.
•Learning Love, Lust and Legitimacy. a one person
show that struggles to exhibit different forms of love in a society
that only accepts monogamy as the single legitimate form of intimacy
and sexual expression. This show highlights societal constructs
that constrain our notion of ways to love, in the broadest sense.
Learning Love, Lust and Legitimacy specifically is about
two friends struggling with their ideas of intimacy. The show goes
from present to past to future of what they believe about intimacy,
how they got there, what made sense and what they believe now. Their
struggle is further complicated by gender roles, sexual orientation
and cultural values. This show does not attempt to elevate one form
of intimacy over another, but pushes us to examine the system of
socially constructed emotions.
As a sex educator, Ignacio is founder and former coordinator of Shades
of Poly (a NY based social group for Polyamorous lesbian & bisexual
women of color & transgender folx of color).
Currently he is a part of revolutionstar experience, which among
many things is dedicated to producing sex-positive workshops, panel
discussions, and or educational opportunities.
Revolutionstar Experience is a dynamic duo with revolutionary provocative
thought about the colonial seeds of poison people of color, especially
queer and trans folx of color, experience, and how these seeds alter
our existence and intimate interactions. We work to find ways to
transform what we have learned and purge these seeds towards our
personal and collective liberation.
Ignacio Received his M.A. in Sociology at Brandeis University, Waltham
Massachusetts and his B.A. in Human Studies: Sociology at Bradford
College, Bradford Massachusetts.
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