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Indira Allegra
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Indira Allegra is a writer and interdisciplinary text based artist, representing poetry and creative writing in video, digital photography and textile making practices. She is concerned with themes of emotional intimacy, displacement, spirit and states of hyper-awareness. Her experimental video poem, Blue Covers, has screened at festivals and events in both nationally and internationally. In 2008, she co-facilitated the artistic vision of performance project Sins Invalid, a re/view of embodiment for artists exploring intersections of sexuality and disability.
Indira’s writing has appeared in Make/Shift Magazine, the 2008 Artists Against Rape Chapbook and Wordgathering, an online journal of disability poetry. She has forthcoming work in Sovereign Erotics, an anthology of Native American Two-Spirit and LGBTQ writing from the University of Arizona Press and Dear Sister, an anthology of letters and other works created for survivors of sexual violence from other survivors and allies. Indira will share artistic directorship for Artists Against Rape in 2012. Indira is of African, Tsalagi (Cherokee) and Irish descent. Find more of her work online at www.indiraallegra.com and http://bluecovers.wordpress.com.
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