Queer slam poet and activist Andrea Gibson shared her work at the University of Cincinnati as a part of QueerCat Pride Week. GenderBloc, a radical queer student group focusing on transgender and genderqueer activism at UC, hosted Gibson in Catskeller.

Themes of love, gender, war and politics permeated Gibson’s poetry. And, I was lucky enough to see Gibson read on of my favorite poems, “Andrew”:

Unfortunately, my videos from the performance didn’t turn out very well, so I created a YouTube playlist of the videos I could find of Gibson’s UC performance. You can watch most of the show here.