Jeanne B.

Mirha-Soleil Ross (aka Jeanne B.) is a trans videomaker, performer, sex worker and animal rights activist born and raised in a poor francophone neighbourhood on the south shore of Montréal, Québec. Since moving to Toronto in 1992, she has produced over a dozen videos which have been screened at festivals internationally. As an activist, Mirha-Soleil worked from 1997-1999 with the staff at the 519 Community Centre to develop Meal-Trans, Toronto’s first publicly funded, multi-services program for low income and street active transsexual and transgendered people.