Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán's bio

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán (they/he) is a multimedia artist, activist/organizer, critic, and educator. A Tulsa Artist Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, they are the author of the poetry/photography chapbooks, Archipiélagos; Inquillry; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. Bodhrán is editor of the first global queer/trans Indigenous collection, the international queer/trans Indigenous issue of Yellow Medicine Review; and co-editor of the Native dance/movement/performance issue of Movement Research Performance Journal. Co-founder of the world’s first transgender film festival, which became the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, they organized the world’s first transgender Arab roundtable dialogue for Sinister Wisdom. They have received scholarships and fellowships from CantoMundo, Macondo, Radius of Arab American Writers, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, and Lambda Literary.