Ivan Coyote: Playlist

Ivan Coyote doesn’t fit neatly into one of two gender boxes, they never have.

From an early age in the Canadian Yukon, they can remember discovering a coded but very possible queer future hidden in the music coming out of the AM radio in the kitchen, lurking in their parent’s record collection, and leaking out of the lyrics in their elementary school musical. An award-winning author, performer and musician, Ivan’s stories grapple with the complex and intensely personal topics of gender identity, family, class, and queer liberation, but always with a generous heart and a quick wit.  

Enter Playlist. Combining Coyote’s equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking stories with long-time collaborator Clyde Petersen’s animations, this mix tape meets old school slideshow performance follows Ivan on their journey from baby tomboy to masculine-appearing predominantly estrogen-based organism, onto life today as a trans person. Join Ivan Coyote for an evening beyond the binary with Playlist, followed by a chat with writer Yves Rees.

This event is presented by the UNSW Centre for Ideas as a part of Diversity Festival.