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Featuring Artists
Hamsa Nguyen (she/her)
Einar Escoto (he/him/his)
Einar Escoto (he/him/his)
Hamsa is a Vietnamese trans woman and interdisciplinary artist who is native to Los Angeles. She comes from a rich lineage of mystics and healers, and has integrated such identities into her work. Hamsa's poetry collection, Blood Frequency, has been recognized by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and C&R Publishing. She is currentl
Hamsa is a Vietnamese trans woman and interdisciplinary artist who is native to Los Angeles. She comes from a rich lineage of mystics and healers, and has integrated such identities into her work. Hamsa's poetry collection, Blood Frequency, has been recognized by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and C&R Publishing. She is currently pioneering herbalism and yoga education for queer + trans* folks, while fashion modeling for nationwide brands.
Einar Escoto (he/him/his)
Einar Escoto (he/him/his)
Einar Escoto (he/him/his)
Einar Escoto is a Mindsei (Mind, Spiritual, Executive, Intuitive) Coach specializing in hypnotherapy techniques and psychic mediumship as a vehicle to help guide his clients towards their Soul healing. He received his MA in Women’s Studies from San Diego State University and BA from California State University, San Marcos double-majoring
Einar Escoto is a Mindsei (Mind, Spiritual, Executive, Intuitive) Coach specializing in hypnotherapy techniques and psychic mediumship as a vehicle to help guide his clients towards their Soul healing. He received his MA in Women’s Studies from San Diego State University and BA from California State University, San Marcos double-majoring in Women’s Studies and Literature and Writing. His professional experience includes 10+ years in content management and production (including 3 of those years with celebrity life coach Tony Robbins), 14+ years in diversity, equity, and inclusion facilitation and strategy, and 12+ years in education as a higher-ed faculty, poetry workshop facilitator in San Diego juvenile halls and community schools, and as a Senior Manager in the Ed-tech space. Einar’s book about his gender transition, The Woman Inside of Me, released in Summer 2019.
Cat Gunn (they/them/theirs)
Cat Gunn (they/them/theirs)
Cat Gunn (they/them/theirs)
Originally from Baltimore, Cat Gunn is a transmasc nonbinary artist living and working in Southern California. Grappling with the intersection of an untold familial history and a queer personal history, Gunn extends a series of gestures of ancestral offerings, material investigations, and creative-fictional poetics that together contempla
Originally from Baltimore, Cat Gunn is a transmasc nonbinary artist living and working in Southern California. Grappling with the intersection of an untold familial history and a queer personal history, Gunn extends a series of gestures of ancestral offerings, material investigations, and creative-fictional poetics that together contemplate endless possibilities across various temporalities. Gunn has had their work included in recent group exhibitions at ICA in San Diego, Vielmetter in Los Angeles, and BEST PRACTICE in San Diego among others.
Gunn received their MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego, where they expanded their practice into the realms of ceramics, sculpture, and installation. They received their MA in Professional Studies (Art History Concentration) and BFA in Painting from Towson University.
Jun!yi Min (she/hers)
Cat Gunn (they/them/theirs)
Cat Gunn (they/them/theirs)
Jun!yi Min (she/her) is a performance artist from singapore pursuing her MFA at uc San Diego. Her works bind familial tensions and queer relational desires to create context for an enduring Asian body. Jun! has performed at Bread and Salt, Teatro Morelos, St Paul’s Episcopal Church, and Qualcomm Institute. She is a co-curator for Queering The Table.
Meet Our Moderator
Britt Pham (she/they)
Britt Pham is a first-generation Vietnamese-Lao-American, a child of refugees, and a lover of all things disco. They design, produce, and facilitate experiences that weave the full spectrum of life — delight and nuance, joy and grief, the goofy and the real — to guide us closer to ourselves and our communities.
About the Collaborating Organizations:
Asian Solidarity Collective (ASC)
Asian Solidarity Collective (ASC) is a grassroots movement and power-building organization in San Diego activating Asian American communities and moving them into action to create profound radical, sustainable and fundamental change in the world through organizing, community care and personal ecology. ASC’s work includes civic engagement & policy, political education, transformative leadership development, community building, and collective action.
Viet Vote
Our organization is a non-partisan, non-profit founded in 2019, dedicated to the empowerment of the Vietnamese community in San Diego through voting and civic engagement. We also aim to communicate information, resources, and program services to the Vietnamese community, such as vaccination appointments, renter and business relief programs, and community events.
Mingei International Museum
Mingei aims to inspire people to celebrate human creativity, as well as recognize, embrace, and cultivate their own creativity, in ways big or small through an inviting, fresh, sometimes surprising, and always engaging look at a diverse range of thoughtfully designed, carefully crafted and passionately made objects from around the world, often created by unknown artists and craftspeople for everyday use.
Thank you City Councilmembers Stephen Whitburn, Marni von Wilpert, and Raul Campillo for supporting Queering the Table with funding from the City Council Community Projects, Programs and Services (CPPS) to make the event successful.