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the other way with Kei Tsuruharatani

the other way is an art collective that creates spaces, texts, objects, experiences, and imaginative engagements for trans living beyond emergency. The project is rooted in exploring the temporalities of trans living and aims to find ways to resist states of emergency that currently shape trans existence. the other way practices trans for trans modes of recognition cultivated across multiple forms of being. Both theoretically and physically, the other way began with plants, and this grounding in botanical companionship informs its experiments in building hospitable spaces. These ways of sensing, seeing, and knowing with others also draw from a range of scholarly, activist, and creative practices including queer theory and trans histories. It is our hope that such other ways might extend from the garden to the archive and beyond, shaping companionship in unexpected new places.

Kei Tsuruharatani is a Japanese transgender dance artist, mindfulness educator, and MFA in Dance candidate at the University of Michigan, focusing on ecosomatics and transgender studies. She has performed on Broadway in Jagged Little Pill, The King and I, and Miss Saigon; appeared on Good Morning America and Harlem; and danced for six seasons at the Metropolitan Opera. A qualified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher through Brown University, her mindfulness training draws from early Buddhism, including ordination in Burma and multiple silent retreats.  IG: @katekusala