Founded in 2012 by Artistic and Executive Director Devi Peacock, Peacock Rebellion is an Oakland-based, queer/trans/GNC Black, Indigenous, and people of color-centered (BIPOC) crew of artists, cultural workers, and community organizers with disabilities and chronic illnesses who use the arts to build cultures of safety and healing with trans and queer Black, Indigenous, and people of color (TQBIPOC) communities. We unfurl the brilliant iridescent plumage of an ostentation of Peacock artists, singing to BIPOC communities of our collective visions and the long-term survival of us all.

Peacock Rebellion is completely led by TQBIPOC with disabilities and chronic illnesses, including our staff, Board of Elders, lead trainers, safety and accessibility teams, program leaders, production leads, and core program participants. Peacock Rebellion is the only Northern California arts organization that centers the leadership of multiple generations of BIPOC trans women, BIPOC trans femmes, and gender non-conforming BIPOC. We prioritize TQBIPOC throughout Ohlone land / the San Francisco Bay Area. Disability justice and racial justice are interwoven across Peacock Rebellion and our programs; we have lived experience as targets of structural and institutional ableism, and our entire organizational leadership lives at the intersections of surviving ableism, racism, and transphobia. Peacock Rebellion is part of a growing and ever-present movement of TQBIPOC and Two-Spirit cultural activism.