Rika Sauvage has been a Xatriarch – with an X - of the New York Social Scene upon arrival in 2008. In addition to being a performance artist and writer,  they are also one of the first New York residents who has the designation of ‘X’ as their legal gender marker. The unknown variable of ‘X’ is how they identify on the gender spectrum as a non-binary human. As a gender-fluid artist, they explore the spectrum of their truth through the spell of their lyrics and melodic expression. Rika has appeared and headlined multiple concerts and events at highly regarded venues throughout the New York Metropolitan area including BAM, The Town Hall Theatre, Three Dollar Bill, 54 Below, TV EYE and many more. Recordings of their original songs are also forever archived at the prestigious Leon Levy Archive at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Tricia Klinkhamer is a retired U.S. Airforce veteran and founder of the YOU=LOVE International Coalition for Greater Peace and Equal Rights based in Brooklyn, New York. Tricia is an etymologist and an alphabet history researcher.  history researcher and has authored and published four books. She is a well-schooled graduate from Penn State University where she majored in International Politics. Tricia’s educational journey was the impetus of the meeting of our minds. We both share a fondness for dictionaries and encyclopedic knowledge. Tricia has read the dictionary in four languages despite her profound dyslexia. As her college tutor I saw into the vastness of her ever-expanding intellect and vast vocabulary. Our shared passion is all-inclusive world peace, which has been a major theme in our collegiate and creative writing processes whether they be song lyrics or international relations policy.