Joel Sedano (they/them) is a queer, trans non-binary, disabled Xicanx who is reconnecting to their Indigenous roots in Western Guanajuato. They are a poet, photographer, performer, director, painter, and master of anxiety. Joel's poetry has been featured in Phineas Literary Magazine, Art of Writing Anthology, and Love and Pride: The Musical’s “We’re a Rainbow Section,” Semana de la Mujer Journal, Olney Magazine, Honey Literary Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, and most recently in No, Dear Magazine. They co-founded Writers’ Building Blocks (WBB) and hopes to expand WBB into a literary press and journal for 2Spirit, Queer, and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (2SQTBIPOC) artists. Joel debuted their short film "Post-Prismatic" at the 2020 Queer Women of Color Film Festival. They are also a landscape photographer with works recently published in Lux the Zine and WerkHaus Zine. Joel is the Climate Program Coordinator for the California Indian Environmental Alliance, a Native-led nonprofit whose mission is "to protect and restore California Indian Peoples’ cultural traditions, ancestral territories, means of subsistence, and environmental health.” They are co-Executive Director of the non-profit Urban Reziliency. UR Wants to continue building communal support that incorporates cultural, social, and medical practices that ease the houselessness crisis affecting at-risk 2SLGBTQ+, Black and Indigenous youth, and domestic violence survivors.

Why PS @ NYU?

In Performance Studies, my scholarly interests, creative praxes, and theoretical background can join at a nexus where I can continue to push boundaries and pursuits while also being pushed to further my intellectual, artistic, sociopolitical work.