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 […]
Tag Archives: Vogue Studies
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. […]
Vogue Workshop this Friday at Columbia College
As part of the Little Big Foot free dance workshop series, the House of Ninja Chicago Chapter, along with members of the Passisas Samba Group, will both be presenting at a […]
Saturday School: Or; Whose Permission Are We Waiting For?
There is a great tradition in Chicago of Saturday schools–classes, programs and workshops led by community organizations and members on Saturday mornings and afternoons. Most prominent and ongoing in immigrant […]
Radical Faggot 