To celebrate my move to Canada, this week's #transmusictuesday is an amazing Nikkei-Canadian artist! @teiyakasahara.bsky.social 笠原貞野 (they/he) is a non-binary transmasc coloratura soprano and the founder of Toronto company Amplified Opera, working to shake up the whitewashed opera world.

UBC music grad @teiyakasahara.bsky.social confronts how opera world polices race, gender, and sexuality in The Queen In Me. It's at @sfu.ca Woodward's Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre on Fri. (Sept. 12) and Sat. (Sept. 13). @news.ubc.ca @georgetakei.bsky.social pancouver.ca/teiya-kasaha...

Toronto opera singer and interdisciplinary artist @teiyakasahara.bsky.social will perform The Queen In Me for first time in Vancouver on Sept. 12 and 13. Teiya studied opera under Nancy Hermiston at UBC. @news.ubc.ca torontospark.ca/teiya-kasaha...

I am the TQ+ part of the TQIA+ that federal institutions are trying to erase. As someone who has been around since before many places even started using the L, I remain unphased in my existence and determination.

Love is when friends randomly text you songs to listen to because the world is on fire, hearts are breaking, lives are being lost, the world is upside down, but there are ✨ glimmers of hope here, in the thought, in the reach out, in the music and poetry that connects us. That’s love. 💖

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊

One day, there will be one social media app, where all the other apps will come to die. Please let this be the beginning of the end.