About Your Co-creator

ID: a red-tinted photo of TQ, a trans masc Chinese person with a buzzcut and long sideburns smiling at the camera. They are wearing large hoop earrings and a colorful patterned shirt.

Hi, I’m TQ. I use they/them pronouns.

I am a queer, trans, phyiscally disabled, AudHD Chinese-Singaporean artist, writer, and facilitator. With my partner/caregiver, I’m also a father to three warm fluffy naughty cat babies. I spend my time making art, writing, taking care of my hypermobile joints, devoting myself to my rest practice, holding space for disabled neurodivergent QTIBIPOC folks, caring for my plants, and on good energy days, out in the woods.

In the vein of generative somatics, this is my public declaration:

I am a commitment to my authenticity and creativity, and releasing shame that was never mine.

What drives the Rewilding?

  • To help disabled, neurodivergent, QTIBIPOC individuals reinhabit their bodies and creativity.

  • To co-create an intergenerational legacy of disabled, neurodivergent, QTIBIPOC leaders who replenish and restore our communities and the Land through decolonial, pre-capitalist, generative creative practices, queering perception, and embracing neurodivergence and disability.

  • NATURAL WISDOM: The Earth and our interconnected bodies have everything we need to regenerate each other.

    SACRED QUEERNESS: We are sacred and deserve ACCESS and RESOURCES to receive joy and rest

    DECOLONIALITY: We can reinhabit our creativity though the ancient practices of our ancestors.

    REST: We allow the Earth to hold us in deep rest and slumber.

    NEURODIVERGENCE We reject neurotypical ways of being and embrace the myriad ways we are neurodivergent.

    ACCOUNTABILITY: We embrace generative conflict through the framework of decolonial non-violent communication and neurodivergent ways of communicating that aren’t always verbal.

    RESPECT: We respect that each of us occupies a different position in relation to white supremacy and has our unique ancestry, creative voice, and ways of finding ease and access in this world.

  • We agree to:

    • Prioritize the safety, dignity, and belonging of disabled BIPOC.

    • Recognize that white supremacy and intersecting oppressions impact our experiences to different degrees.

    • Recognize “there will always be competing (access) needs” and “have conversations about how to keep everyone in the group comfortable.” [1]

    • Engage and opt out in ways that feel safe for our bodyminds without performing or justifying ourselves.

    • Give content warnings when sharing triggering stories to allow others to disengage for their safety.

    • Address any harm that occurs with restorative approaches first.

    • Be aware of how much we’re speaking and leave room for quieter voices.

    • Embrace pauses in between activities and sharing.

    [1] Leimbach, S. (2024, October 9). What if care is the work?. Deem. https://www.deemjournal.com/stories/activation-residency

Communities We Support

5% of the profits from The Rewilding Retreat supports and funds the following communities dear to my heart:

  • My disabled Palestinian friend Nara and her family of 4

  • The Rewilding’s free events for disabled BIPOC folks

  • The indigenous islanders of Singapore via the Orang Laut SG project

  • The T project, Singapore’s only shelter for homeless trans women.

Seasonal updates about the funds contributed to these communities will be posted to this website.

Highlights

  • 2025-Present: Rest Nests for Nara, an art retreat and fundraiser for my disabled Palestinian friend Nara nad her family

  • 2025-Present: The Rewilding, a weeklyish dispatch for disabled, neurodivergent BIPOC folks

  • 2024-Present: Illustrator for Queercrips For Palestine, Nara's campaign

  • 2025: Featured in Coin-Operated Press Neurodivergent Zine

  • 2023-2024: Hosted Classroom to Copy, a (closed) podcast about transitioning from teaching to copywriting

  • 2023-2024: Financial Copywriter, Stansberry Research

  • 2023: Light Up Your Brain, a (closed) weekly newsletter about creativity

  • 2023: Assistant Copy Chief, Cardone Training Technologies

  • 2022: Junior Copywriter, Real Estate, Cardone Training Technologies

  • 2015-2021: High school art and literature teacher in Singapore

    • Developed neurodivergent-friendly lesson plans and resources for Art and English Literature

    • Curated and organized high school graduate art exhibitions for my beloved art students

    • Curated and distributed poetry zines for my equally beloved Literature students

  • 2018: Curated and showed work at the Waning, Waxing art exhibition at ION Orchard

    • Also conducted a Compostable Art workshop and worm demonstration for visitors

  • 2016: Printed and supported distribution of Issue 1 of The Local Rebel zine in Singapore

  • 2014: Showcased various zines at Chicago Zine Fest

  • 2013: Edited and distributed The Black Dog Goes for a Walk zine at Quimby's Bookstore, Chicago

  • 2015: Graphics journalist behind One Morning in Homan Square, Truthout

  • 2010-2011: Facilitated the Want to See photography project for Singapore Children's Society, exhibited at Raffles Girls' Secondary School

  • 2011-2015: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit Scholarship

  • 2011-2015: Ministry of Education Teaching Scholarship for Fine Art and Literature

Lineage

  • My father who taught me to listen to birdsong in the rainforests of Singapore and the real history of Pulau Belakang Mati

  • My high school biology teacher, Mr. Andrew Chia, who taught us to advocate for disappearing green spaces in Singapore

  • The hosts of the farms I volunteered at in Norway, Japan, and Italy

  • Ayana Zaire Cotton of Seeda School and For the Worldbuilders podcast

  • Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments and their work on Queercrip Radical Visibility

  • Care, the facilitator of the community behind Liberation Practice Field

  • Prentis Hemphill’s Finding Our Way podcast

  • Staci K. Haines and Spenta Kandawalla, the creators of generative somatics

  • Orang Laut Sg, the organization preserving the cultural practices of the indigenous coastal communities of Singapore

  • And then there's all the ancestors I feel supporting my back when I practice Qigong every morning.

Education

  • 2025-Present: Somatics Practice with generative somatics

  • 2025-Present: Black Feminist Worldbuilding with Seeda School

  • 2015-2016: Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (Art & Literature), National Institute of Education, Singapore

  • 2011-2015: Bachelor of Fine Art (Interdisciplinary), School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • 2011-2015: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit Scholarship

  • 2011-2015: Ministry of Education Teaching Scholarship for Fine Art and Literature