Iki Yos

Iki Yos Piña Narvaez. Artist, researcher, writer, and performer, Cimarrona-Caribbean in the diaspora; her work explores transcestral gender dissidences, Black-Cimarron Caribbean memories, their archives, mysteries, and anticolonial practices. She promotes radical travesti imagination and critical fabulations as tools for collective self-preservation and futurity.

She is also part of Dont Hit a la Negra: an affective community made up of trans and gender-expansive migrants and refugees. For the past eight years, they have been weaving networks of collective care and resistance in Madrid and Barcelona, firmly believing that affection, pleasure, and celebration are also powerful forms of political action.

They are pioneers in creating spaces designed by and for trans bodies, particularly through ballroom culture. Rooted in lived experiences, they built safe spaces to meet, recognize one another, and exist fully in the diaspora.

The party is an act of resistance—a collective ritual that allows us to hold each other and crack open the violences that shape our lives. Through performance, poetry, and antiracist, dissident pedagogies, confront lgtbiphobic and colonial discourses with a strong commitment to social justice with Iki Los, continuing to imagine and build possible futures, where living together is not a risk, but a celebration.