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Je'Jae Cleopatra Daniels
they/them she/her

Photo within a photo where the central image is of Je'Jae Cleopatra Daniels surrounded by a 90s-style abstract pattern or reds and blues. Je'Jae Cleopatra Daniels is a Mizrahi person with light skin and short hair. They wear plum lipstic, golden nail polish, a white garment, and have a cloth - possibly a tallit - draped over her head. They are holding a large black eye patch over one half of their face.

Places of practice

New York City, New York, United States of America

Alternate names

Foxy Cleopatra

Mx.Enigma

Mx. Je'Jae C. Daniels

Je'Jae Cleo M.

Je'Jae Daniels

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Photo within a photo where the central image is of Je'Jae Cleopatra Daniels surrounded by a 90s-style abstract pattern or reds and blues. Je'Jae Cleopatra Daniels is a Mizrahi person with light skin and short hair. They wear plum lipstic, golden nail polish, a white garment, and have a cloth - possibly a tallit - draped over her head. They are holding a large black eye patch over one half of their face.
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Biography

Mx. Je'Jae (They/She/Qween) is a Queer Mizrahi mixed media artist. They received a BA in Media and Film/Gender Studies from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies. Their work focuses on the intersections of Queerness, American culture, and public perceptions and has been featured at film and arts venues worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Tribeca Film Festival, Miles Nadal Gallery in Toronto, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. They have had residencies at the Brandeis Collegiate Institute/American Jewish University in California, New York City’s Judson Memorial Church, and a writing fellowship with the LA Times.Mx. Je'Jae worked with the New York Public Library on a production of the play L’Chaim 2 Dykes, about Queer ex-Hasidic women engaged in custody battles.

“Mx. Je’Jae C. Daniels | Fountain House Gallery.” Accessed January 31, 2023. https://www.fountainhousegallery.org/artist/mx-enigma.

Mx.Enigma (They/Them & Queen) is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and media maker. They are a nonbinary trans femme of color living in NYC. They graduated Cum Laude at Brooklyn College in 2017 with a B.A in Media/Film & a side concentration in gender, race, and sexuality. Their work focuses on the intersections of queerness, American culture & public perceptions. Their work has been featured in over 40 galleries in NYC including cultural institutions like MOMA, MAD, Bronx Museum, Tribeca Film Festival, HBO & BRIC media. Mx.Enigma was also a title to one of their first short docs about one’s struggle with gender and religion has been a finalist at Tribeca Institute’s spring 2018 film fest “Our City, Our Streets.” They made history in Summer 2018 as the first nonbinary host on an American public tv network on Manhattan Neighborhood Network where they produced 1st season of Queer Justice! A human rights talk show focusing on Global Queer liberation. They are an alum of the BCI artist residency in Summer 2017, UrbanWord NYC Poetry Institute, and expected to be a Fall 2018 artist in residency at Judson Memorial Church in NYC. They are currently working in collaboration with Theatre of the oppressed and New York Public Library summer reading of their play production “L’Chaim 2 Dykes” a truthful comedy humanizing the lives of Queer Ex-Hasidic Women who are struggling with their custody battles. Stay tuned for their film adaptation.

Facebook. “Mx.Enigma.” Accessed August 16, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/MxEnigma/about_details.

Mx. Mizrahi is a NYC-based teaching artist, theatre practitioner, and mobilizer of social justice causes for over 15 years. Their creative enterprise "Mx.Enigma" has produced international award winning films, exhibitions, plays and has provided DEI creative solutions as a consulting business to NGOs, city/state agencies, at-risk youth and more like Footsteps, Reelworks, DYCD, Educational Alliance. Their main passion is to curate anthologies with their resilient clients to promote restorative justice and build a network of survivors through art therapy. In 2016, they were a Out in Tech Mentee of it's pilot class, where they worked with their mentor at Facebook's Education department to produce DEI & Cultural events on trans inclusion and awareness at their NYC HQ. In 2018, Je'Jae became the 1st nonbinary community board member elected by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and 📺 anchor on a American network at MNN TV where their talk show "Queer Justice" highlighted experts, and advancement around qtpoc & immigrant causes. They’re the founder of five mutual aids supporting working class QTPOC Artists made during the pandemic like “Trans Writers Collective” and “Queer Media Network” with over 3,000 members and NGO/State sponsorship to alleviate financial barriers and placement creatives to shine. Mx. Daniels had artist residencies with Poetics, Brandeis Collegiate Institute, Makerspace, NewHouse at Snug Harbor, Abrons Arts Center, People’s Forum, Judson Memorial Church, and they have only yet begun!

LinkedIn. “Je’Jae Cleo M.” Accessed January 31, 2023. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jejaedaniels.
Filmography
  • Bubby & Them

    film/video, 2017

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story