2012 Core77 Design Award Recipient in Writing and Commentary Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary performance artist, writer and psychogeographer. She has worked with Bay Area non-profit organizations such as Galería de la Raza, the Queer Cultural Center, Asian American Theater Company, the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center, and Proyecto Contra SIDA Por Vida. Her work in performance and video has been presented nationally and internationally. From 2002 to 2008, she directed her own arts organization (a)eromestiza which was dedicated to presenting cutting edge video and performance by queer artists of color. Her writing has been published by Social Justice Journal, shellac, artistmanifesto.com, Antithesis Journal: Sex 2000 and anthologies such as Postcolonial and Queer Theories: Intersections and Essays and Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory / Theorizing the Filipina American Expe