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Mirha-Soleil Ross Early Life Ross grew up in a poor neighbourhood on the south shore of Montréal (French-Québec) in a francophone and mostly illiterate family.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Satya Oct 03: Interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross )〕 When she was sixteen years old, she watched a TV documentary about fur, she saw images of animals being caught and physically abused; this traumatized Mirha and she stopped eating meat, stopped wearing leather and wanted to learn more about animal abuse and decided to become an animal rights activists.〔 Career and Activism Ross is known as a transsexual video maker, performer, sex worker and animal rights activist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=bio )〕 She moved to Toronto in 1992. She has produced over a dozen videos which have been screened at festivals internationally. From 1993-1995 Mirha-Soleil worked with Xanthra Mackay to publish GenderTrash, a political and arts magazine for trans people. From 1995 and for five years, she conducted educational workshops for Toronto social service and health care agencies, and served as a consultant for researchers into trans experience.〔Irving, D. "Against the Grain: Teaching Transgender Human Rights." Sexualities (2013): 319-35. Print.〕〔Darryl B. Hill. Trans Toronto: An Oral History. NY: William Rodney Press, 2012: 28, 35, 151, 169.〕 As an activist, Mirha-Soleil worked from 1997-1999 with the staff at the 519 Community Centre to develop Meal-Trans, Toronto’s first publicly funded, multi-services program for low income and street active transsexual and transgendered people.〔 Also in 1997, she created Counting Past 2, a multi-disciplinary art festival dedicated to the promotion of work produced by local and international transsexual and transgendered artists. From 1996-2001, she hosted ANIMAL VOICES, a weekly animal rights radio show on CIUT 89.5 FM. In 2001, she served as the Grand Marshall of the 2001 Pride Parade.〔Gosine, Andil. “Pink Greens: Ecoqueers Organize in Toronto.” Alternatives Journal 27.3 (2001): 35-36. 〕〔Salah, T. (2007). What's All the Yap? Reading Mirah-Soleil Ross's Performance of Activist Pedagogy. Canadian Theater Review, 130.〕 Today, Ross continues help sex workers, transsexuals, and animal rights. She also helps with missing and murdered Canadian Aboriginal women and much more.〔〔Ross, M. (n.d.). Shaking Things Up: Queer Rights/ Animal Rights (interview ).〕 Awards Ross has been the recipient of several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and her video, Mateřština (co-directed with Mark Karbusicky), won the Marian McMahon Award at the 2004 Images Festival in Toronto.〔Irving, D. "Against the Grain: Teaching Transgender Human Rights."Sexualities (2013): 319-35. Print. 〕 Videography 1993: CHRONIQUES (Director under the pseudonym of Jeanne B) 12 minute Video Diary. Canada. With French and English Subtitles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VIDÉO )〕 AN ADVENTURE IN TUCKING WITH JEANNE B (Director under the pseudonym of Jeanne B.) 6 minute colour Video Diary. Canada. With French and English subtitles.〔 GENDERTROUBLEMAKERS (Co-Director under the pseudonym of Jeanne B. with Xanthra Mackay) 25 minute Documentary. Canada.〔 1997: DYSFUNCTIONAL Experimental 9 minute film. Canada.〔 WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN: A CONVERSATION WITH PETER DUNNIGAN 25 minute Documentary. Canada.〔 1998: JOURNÉE INTERNATIONALE DE LA TRANSSEXUALITÉ 40 minute Documentary. With French and English Subtitles. Canada.〔 2000: G-SPrOuT! (Co-directed with Mark Karbusicky). 12 minute Experimental Documentary.〔 2001: TREMBLEMENT DE CHAIR (Co-directed with Mark Karbusicky). 3.40 Minutes performance piece with no dialogue. Canada 〔 MADAME LAURAINE’S TRANSSEXUAL TOUCH! (Co-directed. with M. Forrester and V. Namaste). 34 minutes pornography. Canada 〔 LULLABY 4 minutes experimental film. Canada 〔 2002: PROUD LIVES (Co-directed with Mark Karbusicky) 4 minute experimental-documentary. Canada 〔 ALLO PERFORMANCE! (Co-directed with Mark Karbusicky) 13 minute black and white experimental documentary. With French and English Subtitles. Canada.〔 2003: Mateřština (Co-directed with Mark Karbusicky) 12 minutes black and white experimental film. With English and French subtitles. Canada 〔 eXXXpressions en direct: les travailleuses du sexe debouttes à Montréal 12 Minutes black and white experimental film. With English and French subtitles. Canada.〔 Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore 12 minutes black and white experimental film. With English and French subtitles. Canada.〔 2005: Les vérités vo(i)lées 12 minutes black and white experimental. English and French. Canada 〔 Selected International Film Screening Her short films, documentaries and videos were viewed in Canada and Worldwide. 1992: 〔 Toronto: WORKING the PARTY (Presented as part of the Radical Reels Festival) 1993: 〔 Edmonton: IN SIGHT: Edmonton Women’s Film Festival Toronto: WHORE CULTURE: A Festival of Sex Work MAYWORKS: 8th Annual Festival of Working People & the Arts I LOVE YOU BUT YOU’RE DEAD (Presented by Gallery without Walls) QUEER SITES: Bodies at Work, Bodies at Play BIVERSE (Peterborough) Vancouver: QUEER CITY (Curated by Paul Lang & Carla Wolf) 1994 〔 Edmonton: IN SIGHT: Edmonton Women’s Film Festival Vancouver: OUT on SCREEN: Vancouver Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival Toronto: WHORE CULTURE: A Festival of Sex Work 1995 〔 Calgary: OF COLOUR Saskatoon: POSITIVELY QUEER 1997 〔 Toronto: COUNTING PAST 2: A Transsexual/ Transgender Film and Video Feast! ART GIG 1 San Francisco: TRANNY FEST: Transgender and Transgenre Cinema Boston: THE HEROES’ JOURNEY: 3rd Annual FTM Conference of the Americas Atlanta: SOUTHERN COMFORT: Transgender Conference Montreal: IMAGES et NATIONS: Montreal Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival Vancouver: OUT on SCREEN: Vancouver Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival 1998 〔 Toronto: COUNTING PAST 2: Performance, Film, Spoken Word with Transsexual Nerve! TRANS-CANADA: Crossing Gender Borders (Ed’s Video & Media Arts Center, Guelph) ACTIVE RESISTANCE: a Radical Gathering CARNIVAL PERVERSIONS (Presented by Come as You Are) QUEER VIDEO: Ontario College of Art and Design (Curated by Tobarron Waxman) INSIDE OUT: Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival MAKING SCENES: Ottawa Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival (Ottawa) England: LONDON INTERNATIONAL TRANSGENDER FILM FESTIVAL 1998 BRITISH-CANADIAN VIDEO EXCHANGE (Curated by B.h. Yael) San Francisco: FRAMELINE: San Francisco 22nd International Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival TRANNY FEST: Transgender & Transgenre Cinema Portland, Oregon: 2ND INTERNATIONAL SEX WORKER FILM FESTIVAL (Portland, Oregon) Vancouver: OUT on SCREEN: Vancouver Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Curator: Maureen Bradley) 1999: 〔 Toronto: COUNTING PAST 2: Performance, Film, Spoken Word with Transsexual Nerve! INSIDE OUT: Toronto International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Paris: CINNEFFABLE: Quand les Lesbiennes se font du Cinéma Olympia: GENDERQUEER: NW International Transgender & Intersex Film Festival Boston: TRANSPECTIVES: Boston Transgender Film Festival Vancouver: OUT on SCREEN: Vancouver Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Curator: Richard Fung) 2000 〔 Brazil: MIX BRASIL: Festival of Sexual Diversity in Film Portland, Oregon: SEX BY SEX WORKERS FILM FESTIVAL Florida: TAMPA INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN & GAY FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL Toronto: INSIDE OUT: Toronto International Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival Olympia: GENDERQUEER: NW International Transgender & Intersex Film Festival. IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE: A Screening of Queer Video (Curated by Luis Jacob) Germany: BERLIN LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL Ontario, Canada: LONDON PRIDE CINEMA 2000 2001: 〔 Brazil: MIX BRASIL: Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival New York City: MIX NYC: The New York Experimental Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival THE NEW FESTIVAL: New York Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival MOVIEOLA: The Short Film Channel Toronto: RENDEZ-VOUS with MADNESS: Ninth Annual Film Festival SEX & DEATH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL INSIDE OUT: Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival SEXIN’ CHANGE: Reclaiming Our Genders and Bodies TRANSFUSION LONDON PRIDE Cinema 2001 (London, Ontario) San Franxisco: FRAMELINE: San Francisco 25th International Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival TRANNY FEST: San Francisco Transgender & Transgenre Cinema SAN FRANCISCO International Sex Worker Film and Video Festival Vancouver: OUT on SCREEN: Vancouver Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival MAYWORKS: 13th Annual Festival of Working Class Culture & Politics SABOT: An International Radical Political Film Festival Montreal: IMAGE et NATION: Montréal Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival Olympia: GENDERQUEER: NW International Transgender & Intersex Film Festival Chicago: WOMEN in the DIRECTOR’S CHAIR 20th International Film and Video Festival 2002:〔 France: 16TH RENCONTRES VIDEO ARTS PLASTIQUES New York: IMAGE OUT:The Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (curated by sam Roberts) Tucson, USA: THE SEX WORKER ARTS FESTIVAL San Francisco: LADY FEST BAY AREA FRAMELINE: San Francisco 26th International Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival Philadelphia, US: LOST FILM FEST 7.0 Chicago: WOMEN in the DIRECTOR’S CHAIR 21st International Film and Video Festival Hungary: MEDIAWAVE: International Festival of Visual Arts Canada: CURATORIAL INCUBATOR: V-Tape, Toronto (curated by Carolyn Kane) FROM THE MARGINS TO THE CENTRE: Queer Film Festival (Guelph, Ontario) MIX FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS in TORONTO (introduced by Jim Hubbard) LADY FEST OTTAWA COUNTING PAST 2: Transsexual & Transgender Film Festival (Toronto, Canada) INSIDE OUT: Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival QUEER CITY CINEMA (Regina, Canada) PLEASURE DOME: New Toronto Works Show (Toronto, Canada) 2003 〔 THE CENTRE FOR MEDIA & CULTURE IN EDUCATION (curated by Louise Bak, Toronto) TRANNY FEST (San Francisco) OUT FEST: Los Angeles International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival FRAMELINE: San Francisco 27th International Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival DUBLIN International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Ireland) 19th BOSTON GAY & LESBIAN FILM/ VIDEO FESTIVAL 13th MELBOURNE International Queer Film Festival HERLAND: Film and Video Festival (Calgary, Canada) THE DUTCH TRANSGENDER FILM FESTIVAL (Amsterdam) SPARK Video International (Syracuse, New York) WOMEN in the DIRECTOR’S CHAIR 21st International Film and Video Festival (Chicago, US SIGNAL & NOISE, Video In (Vancouver, Canada) 3rd ANNUAL FLAMING QUEER FILM FESTIVAL (Minneapolis, US) RAINBOW REELS QUEER FILM FESTIVAL (Waterloo, Canada) INSIDE OUT: International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Toronto, Canada) TURN UP THE HEAT: Festival for the Rights of Sex Workers (Montréal, Québec) 3rd SEX WORKER FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL (San Francisco, US) JOHN HOPKINS Film Festival (Baltimore, US) LOST FILM FEST 8.0 North American/ European Tour 2004 〔 Canada: IMAGES FESTIVAL (Toronto) AKA GALLERY (one month video retrospective) (Saskatoon) GIV: Groupe Intervention Vidéo (Montréal, Québec) PLEASURE DOME: New Toronto Works Show (Toronto) Baltimore: SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW: Fruits of Labor (curated by R. 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