As amazing action continues to happen around the country challenging state-sanctioned violence, there are several upcoming gatherings here in Chicago that represent an unprecedented connecting of movements and radical organizations that everyone who can should come […]
Last week my immediate family came out with my friends and me to their first protest since the fatal shooting of Mike Brown. They were interested in getting involved in the […]
This past month I’ve been realizing how long it has been since I felt proud to be Black. I’m not talking about hating myself, my family or other people like […]
Beginning today, Tuesday the 20th, the Broadway Youth Center will be hosting a free weekly series teaching the basics of voguing. Over five sessions, the series will cover the foundations […]
In recognizing the dire need for militant movements in the communities I belong to, and the countless ones taking place around the globe in this historic moment, I’ve been thinking […]
Pastor Jamie Frazier is the founder and pastor of the Lighthouse Church of Chicago, a Black Christian congregation centralized in the Uptown neighborhood. “Passionate about Jesus” and “Serious About Justice,” the […]
I started blogging seriously a little over two years ago. I was living at home in the small town in which I grew up, a recent college graduate looking for […]
This is a brief lesson plan for a workshop focusing on voguing, femme power and feminism through movement. In keeping with other vogue studies lesson plans that have appeared here, […]
This past Wednesday CPS finalized its decision to close 49 of the the city’s public schools, forcing some 40,000 students to abruptly change school environments, or “welcome” huge new populations […]
This lesson is part of a larger vogue studies curriculum, a unit aimed at teaching ballroom scene history to the ballroom scene, other queer people of color, and our allies. […]
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