#BlackOutPride Action Disrupts Chicago Pride Parade
Happening Now: Members of the Black queer community of Chicago are disrupting the Chicago Pride Parade. Here is their public statement: On this day in 1969, Sylvia Rivera, a Boricua […]
Category Archives: Queer Power
Vogue Is Not For You: Deciding Whom We Give Our Art To
I began voguing as a sixteen year old high school student. Still struggling with what it meant to be gay and Black, learning of the ballroom scene both relieved me […]
Feeling Is Not Weakness: Sadness, Mourning and Movement
Many of the movements now happening on a global scale—but particularly the ones here in the US—represent political shifts I’ve been hoping for for as long as I can remember. Given […]
Black Lives Don’t Just Matter: Or; This Moment is the Result of Black Militance
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 […]
Escape the Academy: Militancy and the University
I was lucky enough to share a meal a few weeks ago with a current student at my alma mater, who was embroiled this last year in a struggle over […]
Club Life: Consumption, Addiction and Being Queer
I first started going to strip clubs when I was about nineteen years old, ushered in by my close high school friends who had begun working there as dancers. This […]
The Basics: BYC Voguing Workshop
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 […]
Power Bottom is Redundant: Or; A Femme Guide to Anal Sex
Full disclosure: talking about sex publicly makes me nervous. I like sex, think about it a lot, and factor it into many of my major decisions. Yet, when it comes […]
Peculiar Spirituality: An Interview with Pastor Jamie Frazier
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 […]
Lesson Plan – Vogue and Femme Power
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, […]
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