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Koomah

Koomah with an intense expression and their arms akimbo. Koomah is an Asian/Latinx person with a buzz cut, light skin and dramatic makeup. They wear a blazer, corset, cumberbund, lace top, and bowtie.

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Koomah with an intense expression and their arms akimbo. Koomah is an Asian/Latinx person with a buzz cut, light skin and dramatic makeup. They wear a blazer, corset, cumberbund, lace top, and bowtie.
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Koomah is an intersex & genderfluid multidisciplinary artist, performer, and filmmaker currently residing in Houston, Texas. Koomah seeks to challenge audience's boundaries & perceptions; encouraging audiences to ask questions, see from new perspectives, be vulnerable, and ponder social norms. Koomah is co-founder of The Houston Intersex Society, board member of the Transgender Foundation of America & the Houston Transgender Unity Committee, founding member of CHAA (LGBTQ Collective of Houston Asian Americans), lead organizer of Gender Reel Houston film festival, founding member of The Locas (Queer Latinx women artist collective), founder of iPOCA Collective (intersex People Of Color Artist Collective), and founder of Bad Date List: Houston sex worker safety resource project. Historic ways Koomah has utilized art & film include: The first intersex film & performance festival in Texas, first Transgender Day of Remembrance TV special with performances from community members, the first Intersex Awareness Day TV special, and the first Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers event in Houston featuring visual art installations & performances from local sex workers. Koomah has facilitated several interactive public art projects including: "Chalked" around the outside of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, "Intersex Welcome Mat" at Lurie Children's hospital in Chicago, and the immersive multi-sensory interactive art experience “No Such Thing As A Free House” inside a home in the South Park area of Houston. From 2015-2017, Koomah organized miniature functional artspace project called "MicroSpace Houston"; providing donations-based exhibition space for artists in a converted garage apartment located within a Sharpstown neighborhood. MicroSpace featured a lifted stage, folding chair seating for 15 people, a section for smaller video installation, a screen for projected film screenings, an area for A/V and video documentation through a wall, concessions area, and full restroom with shower in less than 400 sq ft. Koomah's Tex-Kan Artist Retreat brings Texas artists to a family farm in Kansas to workshop & develop new works. Participants split their time between a 100+ year old farmhouse and in a cabin near Lake Wilson. On the farm they are without internet, television, or cell phone service learning about agriculture, farming, and they take on a project such as tearing down a fence, building a fence, bottle feeding calves, and more. At the cabins, they further develop their artistic projects and collaborate with Kansas artists in a town called Lucas, known as the grassroots arts capital of Kansas. Koomah has performed, showcased artwork, presented workshops & lectures, and screened films across the US & internationally.

Fresh Art Registry. “About,” n.d. https://freshartsregistry.org/profiles/koomah.html.

Koomah is an intersex and genderfluid multidisciplinary artist, performer, actor, filmmaker, educator, former sumo rikishi and pet parent to cat Manba who does tricks. Koomah has performed, lectured, and screened films across the US and internationally.

Gender Unbound. “Koomah,” n.d. https://www.genderunbound.org/project/koomah-2/.

Koomah is an intersex queer genderfluid multidisciplinary grassroots artist, performer, filmmaker, LGBTQI educator and part-time hermaphrodite unicorn currently residing in Houston, Texas. Active in the arts since 2003, Koomah seeks to challenge audience’s boundaries and perceptions of sex, gender, and sexualities while encouraging audiences to ask questions, see from new perspectives, be vulnerable, and ponder social norms. Koomah is Co-founder of The Houston Intersex Society, board member of the Transgender Foundation of America, board member of the Houston Transgender Unity Committee, founding member of CHAA (LGBTQI Collective of Houston Asian Americans), member of InterACT, lead organizer of Gender Reel Houston film festival, founder of TEX-KAN ART artist retreat, former owner of MicroSpace Houston artspace, and founder of Bad Date List Houston sex worker safety resource. Koomah has performed, showcased artwork, presented workshops & lectures, and screened films across the US and internationally.

Station Museum. “Trans Film Series,” n.d. https://www.stationmuseum.com/trans-film-series/.