Sol Cabrini de la Ciudad is a performance artist, musician, poet-philosopher, filmmaker, and scholar from Chicago. She is the author of Tgirl.jpg, published by Roof Books, PhD candidate at Performance Studies, and author of the forthcoming book, Poetics of Unbeing with Duke University Press. Under the alias Sol Patches, she composes music that interweaves sonic experimentation with cultural memory. Cabrini’s creative and academic work is deeply shaped by the movement and interconnections between her Louisiana-Mississippi-Tennessee heritage and Illinois— sites she considers vital to expression, creolization, study, and celebration.