D’Angelo Vogues Down: A Memorial
This very short story is written in memory of a youth member of the Chicago queer community we lost in the summer of 2015, and will appear alongside other pieces in the forthcoming zine honoring […]
Category Archives: Vogue Studies
Profane and Sacred: A Review of lil BLK
In the spirit of the Black Arts Movement reimagined in the era of Black Lives Matter, lil BLK, a solo performance by Nic Kay which premiered last weekend at Links […]
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 […]
Just Practice – Workshop Series 2015
Just Practice, a training series started last year by Shira Hassan, will be resuming next month. The series focuses on strengthening activists’, youth workers’ and community members’ harm reduction and transformative justice […]
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 […]
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, […]
Lesson Plan – Vogue and Abolition: Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex Through the Ballroom Scene
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. […]
Vogue Workshop Series at Batey Urbano Starting Next Month
Generation L will be hosting the first in a series of Voguing Workshops this coming month on Friday, May 17th at Batey Urbano. This movement event will focus on not […]
Shout Out to B-Divine Hip Hop Festival
This past weekend, b-girls from all over the country and street dancers from around the Chicago area converged for B-Divine: Celebrating the Feminine in Hip Hop Fesitval. The gathering featured […]
Dance as Community Organizing: Building a Vogue Practice Space
I began voguing as a high school student, drawn to the art form because I had so little support and community as a queer person of color in my hometown. […]
