“OK, after a couple of decades, I’ve finally worked through my issues –”
✨ the universe isn’t done with you yet ✨
“– around being queer, trans, intersexed, mixed, ”
✨ the universe isn’t done with you yet ✨
“and working class, including being working poor and teetering on being underclass at times. Glad I took my time! Time for a rest.”
A short while later:
“I’m on the spectrum? So that’s why – fuck.”
✨ the universe isn’t done with you yet ✨
solidad decosta is a radical multidisciplinary artist. She has performed, read, sung, freestyled and taken her top off at a variety of venues throughout the US, including St. Marks, Antioch University, Pitzer College, Bumpershoot Literary Stage, SomARTS and Brava! Center for the Arts. Her work has appeared in Shampoo, Mirage#4/Period(ical), ALLiance, P!, Angry Poet, Street NOTES and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In addition, she has facilitated writing and performance workshops at Macalester College, Pitzer College, Cell Space, STARC, Dancing Tree, SF Juvenile Hall and Alameda County Youth Facility. She holds an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts, and is a recipient of the Kari Edwards Scholarship at Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program. Decades after a tumultuous trans/queer/intersexed girlhood spent stacking pebbles away from the playground, having a book, compass or abacus in hand, getting her brain scanned and swooning uncomfortably from the administered drugs afterward, reading anything she could get her hands on, and cultivating a fond fascination with mechanical games, light switches, and spinning toys, she self-dxed and came out as autistic in Spring 2018.
