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Elliott has short brown curly hair with shaved sides, wears round tortoiseshell glasses, and winks at the camera. He wears a denim button-up shirt underneath a grey sweatshirt and smiles closed mouthed while resting his chin on his hand. Behind him are green bushes, ivy, and a standing heat lamp.

Photo by Kay Cuajunco.

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Elliott Fukui

He // Him // His

Organizer and Writer

Oakland, California

Elliott Fukui is a midwest born and raised nikkei hafu mad queer and trans organizer with over twenty years of on-the-ground experience doing grassroots campaign work, running programs and trainings, building skills, and developing analysis with comrades coast to coast. Fukui is currently based on Ohlone territory and runs the website Mad Queer Organizing Strategies, where he shares resources and reflections for folks having a rough go of it. He has had the privilege of having his work published in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Feminist Formations, and in The People’s Book of Human Sexuality.

These days, Fukui spends most of his time using music, writing, and art to support people moving through emotional, altered, and psychotic states, and doing mutual aid, community safety, and community care work the way he was taught to by the people who trained him up when he was just coming out of the wards himself as a teen. When spoons allow, he sings, plays bass, and writes lyrics in an all queer and trans POC punk band and is working on a speculative fiction sci-fi series for incarcerated/detained/warehoused youth, because everyone deserves a superhero. Fukui will be starting his Master of Library and Information Science this fall through San José State University and is looking forward to the day he can finally drive the bookmobile towards liberation.

Donor -Disability Futures is supported by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.20.2024