Hi I'm Ea: A Story of Transitions | Ea Domke | TEDxTufts

Ea Domke is a Boston based artist, Post Graduate Teaching Fellow, alumna, and transgender activist. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in May of 2017. Some of Ea’s recent accomplishments include; a Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, the Katherine Romero Graduating Student Award, and the Dean’s ScholarshipAward for the academic year in 2015 and 2016. Her artistic practice explores; gender issues, ​transgender identity, the transgender body, often beginning with her own, the processes of transition, internalized emotional distress caused by social trauma, the negative physical manifestations caused by repeated traumas, and the triumph and joy of the transgender spirit. Ea is a working artist and a Post Graduate Teaching Fellow at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts from SMFA at Tufts. Her art projects deal with transgender identity, the transwoman’s body, which is her body, transition, internalized emotional distress caused by social trauma, the negative physical manifestations caused by repeated traumas, and the triumph and joy of the transgender spirit. Ea is a working artist and a Post Graduate Teaching Fellow at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts from SMFA at Tufts. Her art projects deal with transgender identity, the transwoman’s body, which is her body, transition, internalized emotional distress caused by social trauma, the negative physical manifestations caused by repeated traumas, and the triumph and joy of the transgender spirit. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx