MISSION
Gender Fucked Productions advances trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming equity through supporting artists and coalescing radical community.
VISION
Gender Fucked Productions envisions a world where trans, non binary and gender non conforming artists are able to thrive and make art that pushes beyond any binary we could imagine.
VALUES
CONSENT
From rehearsal to performance, no art is made without full, informed, and enthusiastic consent from all involved.
SUSTAINABILITY
We commit to the responsible use of the organization’s resources to support each other and our capacity to deliver on the mission.
EQUITY
As a company and community, we will work to remove barriers, and fight structural disadvantages so our art is economically accessible, and all money made is distributed equitably. We prioritize inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in engaging with each other and in our distribution of resources and opportunities. We want to focus on all our intersections of identity to fight oppression through our art and storytelling.
TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY
We believe our efforts for our community should be led by our community, which includes full transparency and the ability to listen, learn, make amends, and adjust.
TRANS ART FOR TRANS PEOPLE
While all performances will be open to the public, this art and the community formed alongside it are by trans, nonbinary, and queer people and FOR our community. We embrace the need to celebrate and express delight in our work and our experiences as a community.
IMAGINATION FOR LIBERATION
We strive to create art centered on collectively imagining a future centered on abolition of the oppressive systems we currently live in.
ANTI-RACISM COMMITMENTS
Gender Fucked Productions is dedicated to being an intentionally and increasingly anti-racist organization. Due to the intersectionality of our identities, we understand our work to advance TGNC equity as directly connected to movements for racial justice.
We acknowledge that many of our artistic associates and community members have benefitted from systems of white supremacy and the exploitation and appropriation of Black people, Black labor, and Black culture. We commit to prioritizing Black voices, art, and perspectives in our performances, meeting spaces, and artistic roles, and prioritizing paid opportunities for BIPOC individuals.
We acknowledge the pervasiveness of whiteness and colonizer culture in institutional and organizational structures and systems which we participate in. We commit to speaking back against these norms, learning and creating alternatives, and always seeking input to include diverse cultural perspectives.
We acknowledge the countless contributions made by those enslaved, segregated, oppressed, harmed, and neglected against their will which have gone unacknowledged and uncompensated. We commit to making our events financially accessible and prioritizing paying BIPOC artists.
ACCESSIBILITY COMMITMENTS
We acknowledge the diversity of physical, mental, emotional, and financial ability across our TGNC community. We commit to prioritizing accessible venues, affordable event pricing, requiring masks and accommodation to the best of our abilities for all participants at our events, particularly for our Immunocompromised and chronically ill community members (trans community is particularly affected by HIV and important for our community).
We acknowledge the power and diversity of neurodivergence and the depth of neurodiversity, including psychological trauma, across our TGNC community. We commit to providing support, understanding, and accommodation for all neurodiverse people.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
From the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center on the Three Fires Council:
“The Ojibwe, our eldest kinsmen, were first in igniting the flames of the Council. They are the Keepers of the Medicine and Faith, entrusted with the sacred scrolls and teachings of our ancient Midewewin Lodge.
The Odawa were second to build a fire as one people. They are the Keepers of the Trade, responsible for providing food and goods to the Nation. In the past, they commissioned and conducted large hunting and trading expeditions that created inter-tribal and later European alliances. Devoted to the Council and their duty to the people, they were fierce warriors and protectors of the vast trade network controlled by the Neshnabek.
As Bodéwadmi [Potawatomi], we are the youngest brother and last to build our own fire. The translation of our name refers to our duty to the Council, Keepers of the Fire. Potawatomi are responsible for protecting and nurturing the Neshnabek council fire, for it is at the root of our culture and defining to us as a people. Still today, we are called upon to re-kindle the flames of our past, lighting the path to our future as Neshnabek.”
GF Productions operates in Chicago on the native land of the Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Odawa tribes, also known as the Three Fires Council. This land has been and continues to be inhabited by, gathered on, and stewarded by people of countless other tribal nations including the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Miami, Mascouten, Sac and Fox, Kickapoo, Ho-Chunk, Menomonee, and more.
We acknowledge this land, its inhabitants, its history, and its current status to counteract the erasure and distortion of the violence and genocide committed against indigenous communities and their lasting effects.