Mx. Asher
Poets and Spoken Word
Mx. Asher (they/them) is an emerging spoken word poet known for vulnerable storytelling exploring community, current events, and power. Asher’s poetry reconciles their lived experience as a transgender, neurodivergent sexual assault survivor and former sex worker with their twenty-year career in government, elections, and advocacy. This career includes advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights, police reform, reparations, housing justice, broadband access, and environmental legislation, incorporating a lens of anti-racism. Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, their home community was subject to the harms detailed in the Epstein files. They also went on regular trail walks through the Everglades. And they have witnessed the majesty of many an alligator. As such, Asher is currently exploring regional concepts of identity, racism, classism, environmental damage, and exploitation.
Asher’s work has been published in Discretionary Love and Writers Resist and is forthcoming in Waffle Fried. They’ve performed at over a dozen queer, activist, and community events throughout New England in addition to many a Rhode Island open mic. They organize Rooted PVD, an LGBTQIA+ Artist Community Care Open Mic. You can learn more about Asher here:
