About Imani Henry

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About Imani Henry

Imani Henry, Female To Male Trans activist, writer and performer originally from Massachusetts. 
A graduate of Emerson College’s school of performing arts in 1992.

His theater credits include acting and stage management with Theater Offensive, and the Boston
Women’s Playwrights Festival.Bursting onto the Boston slam poetry scene in 1992, Imani was a
regular at the legendary Cantab Café in Cambridge, MA. In 1996, He placed 2nd at the Outwrite
National LGBT Writers Slam Championship, being beaten by 1 point, by "poetry diva" Letta
Neely.  He is currently, the 2001 Glam Slam Champion hosted annually in NYC by the House of
(Emanuel) Xavier.  In NYC Imani hasperformed in four theatre productions of cult-heroine &
butch playwright, Susana Cook.  As a solo performer he has been featured nationally at a wide
array of venues - from the Creating Change LGBT Conference to The Apollo Theater to national
anti-war rallies.

His short stories and poems have appeared in noted anthologies and publications as Virgin
Territory 2(Masquerade Books 1997), The Evergreen Chronicles, and the lambda award
winning Does Your Mama Know (Red Bone Press 1996).  His new work will be published
in the forthcoming Queer Slam poets' anthology, Butterflies & Bullets as well as in
the new Other Countries' anthology.

As a political activist, Imani has been a staff organizer at the International Action Center for
the last ten years. He is the co-founder and national coordinator for Rainbow Flags for Mumia; a
coalition of LGBTST people who demand the freedom of political prisoner and journalist Mumia
Abu Jamal. As a regular contributor to the progressive weekly, Workers' World newspaper, Imani’s
political writings have received wide circulation on the internet.

Imani Henry also works as an AIDS prevention service provider to homeless LGBT youth and
manages two national internet listserves for Trans people of color and their families.

Currently, he is Artist in Residence at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange and working on a new theatrical
performance "The Strong Go Crazy" debuting in NYC March 30th, 2003

For further information you may contact Imani Henry at:

Imani Henry

Media Write-ups

Interview on Gender Talk, (June 10, 2002)
The longest running radio broadcast show on Transgender issues!

International Drag King Extravaganza, To move to Columbus next year.
A speech given about the historical building of the coalition of LGBT
activist and organizations to demand a new trial for African-American
journalist & political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
By Joel Dossi, Outlook News Reporter

NYC Trans Activists Forum , 1999
What transpired at the "Trans-Safety & Violence Town Meeting"
on March 4 in NYC
By Carrie Davis, Gender Identity Project