Mirha-Soleil Ross
Canadian transgender videographer, performance artist, sex worker and activist (born 1969)
Mirha-Soleil Ross is a transsexual videographer, performance artist, sex worker and activist. Her work since the early 1990s in Montreal and Toronto has focused on transsexual rights, access to resources, advocacy for sex workers and animal rights. She is also known for art produced under the pseudonym Jeanne B.
Her notable works include gendertrash from hell, the Counting Past 2 festival, her show Yapping Out Loud, and the film Mateřština.
Early life
Ross grew up in a poor neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec. Her family was francophone, worked in construction, and was mostly illiterate. She is Métis. As a teenager during the 1980s, Ross became aware of animal abuse, becoming a vegetarian and getting involved with animal rights activism. She credited this with increasing her awareness of the needs of other marginalized groups, like queer people and sex workers. She struggled to "pass" as a boy and was often attacked for looking too feminine. Ross moved from Montreal to Toronto during the early 1990s, where she did sex work and began producing zines and videos.
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