Event

Kit Yan presents Queer Heartache

Slam poet Kit Yan presents Queer Heartache, a full-length poetry workshop performance, directed by Jessi Hill.

In this production, Kit takes take you with him as he walks back through growing up in Hawaii, growing as a queer and Trans person, and finding and losing love.

Some of the questions Kit considers as this workshop unfolds are where do his queer and immigration stories connect? What's it mean to be intentionally queer? And what does love look like for him as a Trans Asian American??

Kit Yan is a queer, transgender, and Asian American Brooklyn based slam poet from Hawaii. Kit performs theatrical slam poetry pieces about his life as a queer, transgender, and Asian American through stories about family, love, and social justice. Kit has been seen on television programs such as HBO's Asian Aloud, PBS' Asian America and MYX TV.

Kit's poetry has been reviewed in New York Magazine, Bitch, Curve, and Hyphen. Kit's work has been recently featured in Flicker and Spark and Troubling the Line two new queer and transgender poetry anthologies and has a forthcoming book with Transgenre Press.

Kit has toured internationally with Sister Spit, The Tranny Roadshow, and Good Asian Drivers. He is on both the Advocate and Campus Pride's lists of top LGBT speakers.

Some fun facts: Kit is the first ever Mr. Transman, and when he isn't performing he is eating ramen, playing ukulele, and talking story.

"Knockout spoken-word!" -New York Magazine

"Incredible slam poetry" - Curve Magazine

"The eloquence of Kit's spoken-word delivery lies in the anti-racist, anti-homophobic, gender-inclusive, language that ties his lyrics together."
- Bitch Magazine

"Fierce Stories!" -Hyphen Magazine