Juba Kalamka
Juba Kalamka is most recognized for his work with performance troupes Sins Invalid and Mangos With Chili, and as cofounder of the queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective (D/DC). Kalamka's personal work centers on intersectional dialogues on race, identity, gender, disability, sexuality and class in popular media. He received a 2005 Creating Change Award from the National LGBTQ Task Force for his activist work in queer music community and produced the annual East Bay Pride -sponsored PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival from 2002-2007 which was featured in the 2005 documentary Pick Up The Mic. He toured the United States with the Sex Workers Art Show in 2006. His essays and creative writing appear in numerous journals and anthologies including Working Sex:Sex Workers Write About A Changing Industry (2007), Vi är misfits! (2009),The Yale Anthology of Rap (2010), Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men (2014) Queer and Trans Artists of Color: The Stories of Some of Our Lives (2014), and Hustling Verse:an Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry (2019).