Fabian Holle (they/them) graduated as an actor/theater maker at the HKU (University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands) in 2004. They worked with directors, choreographers and performance artists, co-founded the theater collective Ponies (2005–2015) and performs as drag persona Massiah Carey. In 2020, they completed a Master of Science in sociology (cum laude) at the VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They won the 2020 ARC-GS MA Thesis Prize (Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality at the University of Amsterdam).
In their thesis, Fabian analyzes how art practicing LGTBQ+ refugees resist and challenge the exclusionary social structures they encounter. Currently, they work as a teacher and teaching-assistant for the master’s program in Sociology at the VU, and as a University Research Fellow with prof. dr. Halleh Ghorashi for the VICI project: Engaged Scholarship and Narratives of Change.
'I wish to increasingly connect with (LGBTQ+) refugee and migrant communities in the Netherlands and abroad, to share and exchange knowledge and experiences that contribute to more equality, inclusion, visibility and agency.'
