Queer Joy in Resistance Title Card

QUEER JOY IN RESISTANCE is a video interview series centering Trans, non-binary and queer people from across Minnesota; uplifting our stories, our work, and the ways we’re surviving, thriving, and cultivating joy despite the attacks our community is facing nationally.

This project is about honoring folks while they’re here, spotlighting the daily acts of resistance and care that often go unseen, and documenting what joy looks like for Queer and Trans people in this moment.

Creative Director: Haley Friesen (@haleyfriesenphotography)

Co-Director: Ash Tifa (@ash.tifa)

Cinematographer: Ryan Stopera (@ryan_stopera)

Editor: Michael Bryant (@michaelsilvabryant)

Art installation: Alexandra Beaumont (@anbeaumont)

There's lots to love about Andrea

In the first interview of OutFront Minnesota's Queer Joy in Resistance series, Andrea Jenkins—poet, artist, community leader and the nation’s first Black, openly transgender woman elected to office—sits down to talk about finding joy, tapping into our resiliency and stressing the importance of coming together into community to keep each other safe.

Title Card: Andrea Jenkins

Queer Joy in Resistance is made in partnership with The Transgender Law Center’s Trans Agenda for Liberation Narrative Lab, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at fostering a new era of empowered transgender and nonbinary voices in the field of communications and narrative strategy.