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yannick-robin sits afront a white wall in a black puffy sleeved dress with a sparkly torso, in Taino native face paint and a traditional Vejigante mask

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yannick-robin sits afront a keyboard and speaker, in taino face paint, staring blankly.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits criss-cross on Jasper, in a conference room where he is being recorded speaking on inclusivity within health care for people with rare blood diseases. The text next to them says, "yannick-robin eike mirko: community member with a Factor VII Deficiency".

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a still shot from the short film, 'a series of revolutions', where a mural of a Vejigante shines beautifully from the sun, on a wall in Downtown Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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two images of yannick-robin sitting on a fire escape (one with book in hand staring into camera, the other without the book and he's facing away) overlay atop each other.

[image description]: yannick-robin rolls down a long winding road. there are duplicates of him in different places on the road and surrounding pavement. he is enjoying his way down, with arms up like wings.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits center stage, script on lap, with director L Morgan Lee sitting at his left, and a line-up of stellar actors spread across the stage.

[image description]: This actor whirls in his wheelchair,
shimmies on his cane, quicksteps
on his feet. In the program,
they/he announce. Openly disabled.
Meet "Jasper, the Wheelchair,"
Meet "Gloria, the Cane."
I'm transfixed. His grace.
The ease with which his fellow
actors wield his weight
so that on his feet or in his chair
he's moving. Rhythm.
Magnetism. Attitude.
Nothing to fear but fear itself.
He's taken FDR's words to heart./
But not that iconic president's dictate:
No audience should se him wheeling.
or bowed and restricted in his chair.
That weakness
FDR could not overcome.
All of us salvaging. Our frailties,
anxieties, missing parts,
convinced we're at our best
when we hide. Our cracks.
Our scars. Our chasms.
In this play, can you
see yourself?

[image description]: yannick-robin sits at the drum kit during rehearsal for Mr. Holland's Opus. They're smiling, and wearing an outfit that makes them happy.

[image description]: yannick-robin plays Bobby Toti, holding a recently-played trumpet, sat beside Akron Watson [playing Mr. Holland] on stage during a scene in Ogunquit Playhouse's world premiere production of BD Wong's writing and directorial debut musical, Mr. Holland's Opus.

[image description]: an edited image shows two cut-outs of yannick-robin playing an electric guitar on stage, overlayed and in moody lighting. They riff to a Joan Baez song.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits in jasper, while playing a bright red Fender strat.

[image description]: yannick-robin plays Ricky Potts, playing the accordion on stage during a number in Princeton's McCarter Theatre production of Ride The Cyclone.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits in jasper, his chair, holding a glockenspiel facing the sky with a smile, daydreaming on stage as Ricky Potts.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits in jasper, his chair, in front of a filming set up. They make eye contact with the lense,using a dissociated thousand-yard stare.

[image description]: robin stands afront a wall covered in projections of moving cars, single eye lit by the motion hovering in an otherwise black silhouette.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits afront a sheet of plexi-glass, and breaths a deep breath of suspicion/hesitancy onto the glass.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits afront a dark background in a navy button down with small pink polka dots. He is posed facing left, smiling shyly.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits in a garden to the left of Jacks Muniz. They are singing passionately into microphones in their hands while wearing floral jackets. There are green plants in the background.

[image description]: yannick-robin stands in front of a microphone on stage at Rockwood Music Hall. They are wearing a black sleeveless shirt, and is mid-phrase, leaning into the microphone on his left.

[image description]: yannick-robin stands on stage in front of sparkling red lights. He is singing into a microphone on his right, arm raised above a guitar. He is playing while singing.

yannick-robin, is a Manhattan, NYC-based Biawaisa/Yamoká-hu/Maorocoti multidisciplinary artist and activist with a rare disease.
He began working with nonprofits in 2020, most notably working for Imara Jones (one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2023), owner of TransLash Media, where trans stories are centered in order to save trans lives. While under her wing, yannick-robin was nominated for a Webby Award as an associate and digital producer for the TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones, worked on The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Humanity series as a producer and fact checker, and wrote obituaries for their TGNC siblings lost to violence in the United States and its Territories (more on this here). They have since then written for TalkDeath (read Racial Disparities and Discrimination in the Death Care Industry), focusing on Queer and BIPOC end-of-life preparations and equality, as well as making strides as a disability activist within the performance space, being Off-Broadway in the first TGNC Theatre Festival in the professions history, + being the first wheelchair user to perform in several iconic regional theatres of the US while advocating for accessibility for trans and disabled performers and continuing on with activism as a freelance writer and advocate/consultant. They were recently added to the University of Minnesota’s Tretter Transgender Oral History Project for his contributions to the progress for trans rights in death care and theatre. Now offering obituaries, death doulaship, and bereavement counseling for TGNC decedents and their families as well as trans people lost to violence, people with rare diseases, and the disabled.
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yannick-robin eike mirko is represented by Arise Artists Agency

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