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Sabina is a mixed-race Latina femmedyke (http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emergenyc-alumni) performance artist, activist, and troublemaker. This mixed-race bruja finds the meat and magia of her work in the natural world and urban ecosystems of Brooklyn, New York. Her work coalesces around conscious, performative femininity and camp as strategies for resisting racist heteropatriarchy. (http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emergenyc-alumni). Inspired by a group of queer femme artists and instigators, she explores themes of heartbreak, ancestry, chosen family, femininity, apocalypse and faith. Sabina is karaoke-obsessed and plays a rhinestoned kazoo. She is faking it til she makes it. Sabina currently apprentices with herbalist Robin Rose Bennett of WiseWoman Healing Ways (http://cunyba.gc.cuny.edu/blog/sabina-ibarrola-gender-sexuality-and-performance/) . A graduate of Hunter College, New York School of Burlesque New York School of Burlesque  (http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/es/emergenyc-alumni/1764-sabina-ibarrola-2013)  and the Hemispheric Institute’s EMERGENYC (http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emergenyc)  program (http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/3rd-annual-napomo-303030-sabina-ibarrola-on-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/), she collaborates with the Boston-based Femme Show and Brooklyn’s Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow (http://www.heelsonwheelsroadshow.com/). She has worked as an organizing member of HOW since 2013 and co-curates the Opentoe Peepshow (http://www.heelsonwheelsroadshow.com/bios/organizing-crew/sabina-ibarrola/ )

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Sabina was born on October 26, 1989 to a Mexican father and a mother from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana>Louisiana</a>. Sabina was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans>New Orleans</a> and then she moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida>Florida</a> where she spent her childhood.

She started college in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota>Sarasota</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College_of_Florida>New College of Florida</a>, Flordia’s legislatively-designated “honors college for the liberal arts” where she studied art and dancing. Sabina enjoyed her experience but there weren’t any performing arts courses which made her move to New York. She enrolled into Hunter College in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City>NYC</a> where she graduated with her B.A. for Performing Artists on September 2012. (http://cunyba.gc.cuny.edu/blog/sabina-ibarrola-gender-sexuality-and-performance/) The courses of her concentration were drawn from Political Science, Women’s Studies, Dance and English. In addition to her courses at Hunter, she took one course at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUNY_School_of_Professional_Studies>CUNY School of Professional Studies</a> for her degree.

She completed a self-designed major that blended contemporary dance and gender studies, under the guidance of Professor Donohue. Prof Maura Donohue was Sabinas Mentor. Other experiences that Sabina was involved was working as a Watson Fellow Public Policy Intern at both the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the Studio Museum in Harlem and working as an assistant in Hunter’s Women’s and Gender Studies program. In addition, she is apprenticing at WiseWoman Healing Ways with Robin Rose Bennett. (http://cunyba.gc.cuny.edu/blog/sabina-ibarrola-gender-sexuality-and-performance/) Robin is a writer, green witch, an herbalist and wisewoman who is currently showing Sabina the wonders of everyday plants. (http://robinrosebennett.com/ )

Sabina’s father was all about assimilation into the American community. She has a good relationship with her fathers family and felt that being white and mexican really worked out for her.

Awards and recognitions Sabina has not recieved awards or recognitions but some of Sabina’s poems have been published on certain websites like The Operating System [Beta] http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/3rd-annual-napomo-303030-sabina-ibarrola-on-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/ where she was featured with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha back in 2011. Leah Lakshmi wrote a poem called femmes are film stars, Sabina’s poem was called you can’t always get what you want. Another website that featured one of her poems called “Thirsty,” The Body Narratives online magazine, thebodynarratives.com, 2014. A couple of other websites included “crushlandia” Mixed Up! A Zine About Mixed Race Queer & Feminist Experience, 2013 and LGBT Elders, Disability, and Community Care: Support Queer Brown Activist, Aurora Levins Morales, qwoc.org, 2012.