Luzviminda Uzuri Carpenter, also known as Lulu, is at the center of Seattle’s community organizing scene. She works for the City of Seattle’s LGBT Commission and serves as a resident artist and performance studies teacher at Seattle Girls’ School. Through her work with other nonprofits, she also uses art and education to prevent youth violence within marginalized communities. A Filipinx, Black, mixed-race, working-class, femme, queer person of color, Carpenter created her Hollow Earth Radio show, #LuluNation + crew, to help archive the stories of queer and trans people of color (QTPOC). “I wanted to create a metaphorical ‘nation’ that accepts all of who I am and all of the complexity of people,” she told me. “I wanted to build community with [people] who were on the margins of the margins.”
