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A.X. Mina

Impact and Engagement Consultant, Archival Producers Alliance

San Francisco, CA US

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Director of Rubbish: The Queer Kingdom of Leilah Babirye and Impact and Engagement Consultant for the Archival Producers Alliance's Generative AI Initiative

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AX Mina (Director, Producer) is a queer nonbinary filmmaker, artist and author and director of Rubbish: The Queer Kingdom of Leilah Babirye. Mina has led exhibitions in spaces such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Mozilla Festival Open Artist Studio (curated by the V&A Museum and Tate Modern), and the Museum of the Moving Image, and she produces Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work and economic justice. Shes written about art, culture and global politics for over a decade, with work in Hyperallergic, Places Journal, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and Foreign Policy. Her second book, Hanmoji Handbook, co-authored with Jason Li and Jennifer 8. Lee, is a Kirkus Best Book of 2022 and teaches the Chinese language through emoji. She is a Senior Civic Media Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Journalism and Communications and member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Asian American Documentary Network. She served as associate producer on the award-winning documentary Ascension, directed by Jessica Kingdon, and co-director of the Lijiang Creative City Guide, produced by China Residencies with support from the British Council China.

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