Julian Talamantez Brolaski: Difference between revisions

| date_birth=1978<ref name="FCA">{{Cite web |title=Julian Talamantez Brolaski |author= |work=Foundation for Contemporary Arts |date= |access-date=March 28, 2021 |url= https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/julian-talamantez-brolaski}}</ref>

| pronouns=[[it/its]]<ref name="FCA" /><ref name="poetshouse">{{Cite web |title=Poetry Path: Julian Talamantez Brolaski |author= |work=Poets House |date= |access-date=March 28, 2021 |url= https://poetshouse.org/poetry-path/map/julian-talamantez-brolaski/}}</ref>

| gender="...my gender feels [[Multigender|multiple]]. I, you know, identify I guess as a [[Two-spirit]] person, and also like a [[nonbinary]] person, though all of these terms are unsatisfying in different ways."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/oral-history/transcripts/NYC+TOHP+Transcript+007+Julian+Talamantez+Brolaski.pdf |title=Interview Transcript: Julian Talamantez Brolaski|last=Lewis |first=AJ|date=March 24, 2017|access-date=March 29, 2021}}</ref>

'''Julian Talamantez Brolaski''' is a [[two-spirit]] and [[transgender]] poet and musician. It is of Mescalero and Lipan Apache, Latin@, and European heritages.<ref name="poetshouse" /> It earned a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Norma Cole and Julian Talamantez Brolaski |last=Katz |first=Vincent |work= |date=2012 |access-date=March 28, 2021 |url= https://dia.qi-cms.com/media/_file/poetryintros/vincent-katz-introduction-norma-cole-and-julian-talamantez-brolaski.pdf}}</ref>

It is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country bands The Western Skyline (Oakland), and Juan & the Pines (Brooklyn); it was also in the NYC-based bands The Low & the Lonesome, and Invert Family Singers.<ref name="BFA">{{Cite web |title=Julian Talamantez Brolaski |author= |work=Blue Flower Arts |date= |access-date=March 28, 2021 |url= https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/julian-talamantez-brolaski/}}</ref>