Micah Bazant: Difference between revisions

'''Micah Bazant''' is an artist and activist ("artivist"<ref name="Lindley">{{Cite web |title=Artist at Work: Micah Bazant, Collaborative Designer and Illustrator |last=Lindley |first=Taja |work=Rewire.News |date=30 June 2017 |access-date=19 May 2020 |url= https://rewire.news/article/2017/06/30/artist-work-micah-bazant-collaborative-designer-illustrator/}}</ref>). Some of their most well-known works include the "Refugees Are Welcome Here" poster, created after President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting immigration in 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/refugees-are-welcome-here-poster-history-travel-ban-protests-552010|title=The Brief, Radical History of the 'Refugees Are Welcome Here' Poster|date=February 3, 2017|last=Westcott|first=Lucy|work=Newsweek}}</ref>, and the "Protect Kids Not Guns" poster seen at 2018 March for Our Lives protests.<ref name="Brammer">{{Cite web |title=A Nonbinary Artist Made the Most Popular Poster at the March For Our Lives |last=Brammer |first=John Paul |work=them. |date=March 26, 2018 |access-date=May 19, 2020 |url= https://www.them.us/story/everyone-is-sharing-this-march-for-our-lives-poster}}</ref>

Micah also started the Trans Life and Liberation Art Series project, a project illustrating trans people of color. Micah cites [https://www.biography.com/activist/marsha-p-johnson Marsha P. Johnson], [[Claude Cahun]], [[Marcel Moore]], and the BlackLivesMatter movement as some of their inspirations.<ref name="mask_Arta">{{Cite web |title=Art as Roses |author= |work=Mask Magazine |date= |access-date=19 May 2020 |url= http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-mommy-issue/life/trans-life-liberation}}</ref>

{{quote|"[[Passing]]" refers to trans people being perceived as non-trans members of the gender with which they identify. While this is a goal for most trans people, I think its [''sic''] important to stay aware of the systemic power imbalance that is implicit in this term. I prefer the term "being passed", because it emphasizes the fact that trans people do not have total control over how we are perceived, and that the power in the equation of passing lies completely with the non-trans person who "passes" us. It is something done to us, not something we are able to control.<ref name="Etiquette">{{Cite web |title=Trans Etiquette/Respect/Support 101 |last=Bazant |first=Micah |work=transfaithonline.org |date=2002-2011 |access-date=19 May 2020 |url= http://www.transfaithonline.org/fileadmin/TFteaching/Bazant_TransRespect101.pdf}}</ref>}}