SPOKEN WORD POET, GUEST PANELIST & FREELANCE WRITER
Hablo Rodriguez-Williams is an unapologetic, Brown, genderqueer artist, poet, freelance writer, author, scholar, disability rights organizer, native, herbal healer and social critic. As a shape shifting, self proclaimed, "Sadboi", Hablo's werk centers a decolonial lens around Queer and Trans POWER and disability. Hablo's work emphasizes everything unapologetically feminine and the ever queering of the word "femme". Hablo's spoken word shines light on the often overlooked, "gritty", parts of queerness, decolonialism and disability. Through their own multiplicities and intersectionalities of their existence; as a first generation Colombian and Indigenous disabled person, Hablo's capacity for story telling allows for them to be instrumental to a cultural movement and narrative of resistance.
Hablo's work centers around unapologetic existence as an Indigenous and Caribbean, Disabled, Queer and Gender Non conforming Person of Color. Their spoken word and poetry centers the intimacies of QTPOC existence, a narrative, often deemed "too much", in a world not meant to see us thrive. Hablo's latest work engages their audience by reflecting the visceral radicalities that is Queer and Trans of Color survival. Maintaining and asserting perspectives of QTPOC, Hablo's work throws glitter and shade onto everything CIS centered and heteronormative. Hablos' latest zine, entitled, "Angry Sadboi Thots", centers gritty, unapologetic, Queer sex, Disability, suicidal ideation, QTPOC HEALING, tenderness and rage as valid components to the multiplicities of QTPOC existance.
WORDS OF RESILIENCE
April 4, 2018
Hablo was requested to recite poetry around social justice, femme emotional labor and surviving as a QTPOC person in the time of Trump, Hablo's work centers the voices of the most marginalized, combining visceral experiences as a multiply marginalized, queer person of color and their expertise as a sociologist major and intersectional organizer. Able to combine prose and social justice issues, Hablo's work looks at the nuances of low income, or no income survival tactics for Queer and Trans People of Color, creating space for the socially taboo, through their unapologetic writing and spoken word. Based upon their capacity to articulate struggles ranging from disability, to affordable housing, Trans and Gender non confirming resilience and struggle, to native and Indigenous survival and land reclamation, Hablo is often asked to offer social critiques and unique perspectives on current issues through spoken word, slam poetry or participate in dialogues as a guest panelist.
INTIMATE APHORISMS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF QUEER LATINX NARRATIVES
June 1st, 2018
“Intimate Aphorisms” presented a journey into the lives of 15 artists and their uninhibited and instinctive expressions of individuality. The exhibition displays an intimate relationship between the artists and their subjects that ranges from identity, family, desire, displacement, faith, and body image. The artists execute their personal work with a distinctive and palpable approach by re-interpreting imagery and symbolisms drawn from (but not limited to) religious iconography, quilting techniques, self-portraiture, and poetry.
“Intimate Aphorisms” showcases artists’ innate desire to reflect their own truth, on their own terms.
QUEERS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
September 10th, 2018
This intentionally queer contingent centered around Climate Justice aimed to uplift visibility of Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans people in the climate justice movement. With speakers across diasporas who are at the forefront of the climate justice movement. Hablo was asked to be one of the QTPOC speakers addressing audiences about the very real experiences of native and Queer People of Color at the forefront of Climate change.
BANNED BOOKS WEEK
September 27th, 2018
Hablo was asked to participate in celebrating the freedom to read, drawing attention to the harms of censorship and honoring the literature that has remained available thanks to the individuals who stand up and speak out for the freedom to read
PUBLICATION OF: ANGRY SADBOI THOTS
October 1st, 2018
"Angry Sadboi Thots" is a zine dedicated to Queer and Trans, People of Color and the intimacies of our existance. considered, "gritty", or "too much", the work encompasses visceral experiences of Queer and Trans People of Color when it comes to sex, learning their bodies, healing, anger self doubt and countless other feelings in a world that wants us not to exist. "Angry Sadboi Thots is available for purchase and has reached the masses, ranging from Japan to Texas, from D.C. to L.A.
BAY AREA: DISABILITY INTERSECTIONALITY SUMMIT
October 13th, 2018
DIS redirects the currents of power and conversation to marginalized disabled people living in our communities, particularly Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color with disabilities. The need to organize DIS was in response to police brutality on disabled black bodies whose identities as multiply-marginalized people were largely absent in many social justice circles. This frame extended to include other disabled people of color, and marginalized disabled people whose lived-experiences continue to face oppression. Hablo Rodriguez-Williams was commissioned to participate and recite spoken word about disability and their lived intersections and vend their zine: "Angry Sadboi Thots".
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dis-2018-bay-area-tickets-49771376527?ref=eios&aff=eios
For many queer and trans People of Color, reclaiming and practicing once forgotten methods of healing, allows QTPOC to exist within a world that wants to erase our existence. It is through reclaiming our forgotten identities, that queer and trans People of Color are directly confronting the compartmentalization of our lives, cultures, bodies, and histories. By reclaiming ancestral healing practices, queer and trans People of Color are not only resisting colonialism and oppression but refusing to be erased
CONTACT ME
Thank you for your interest. For any inquiries, commission requests or studio visits, please contact Hablo Rodriguez-Williams today.
San Francisco, CA, USA
