Join us for a queer South Asian spoken word artvention. We're not here to assimilate into your raceless classless gaystream umbrella-ella-ella honey gurl. We're building solidarity outside those refracted beams of white light we call rainbows. And renegotiating ways of loving our bodies. Come for an evening of poetry, discussion, and community. Decolonize / Queer / Repeat !
*** The show will begin with an opening mic featuring pieces by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, and gende...
Join us for a queer South Asian spoken word artvention. We're not here to assimilate into your raceless classless gaystream umbrella-ella-ella honey gurl. We're building solidarity outside those refracted beams of white light we call rainbows. And renegotiating ways of loving our bodies. Come for an evening of poetry, discussion, and community. Decolonize / Queer / Repeat !
*** The show will begin with an opening mic featuring pieces by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, and gender non conforming people of color. Email alok@alp.org to sign up for the open mic. ***
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 12
7:00PM-9:00PM (DON'T B LATE GURL)
3RD FLOOR | 147 WEST 24th STREET
$1-$10+ ALL PROCEEDS GO TO AUDRE LORDE PROJECT
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WHO IS DARKMATTER (www.darkmatterrage.com)
Alok Vaid-Menon is a South Asian artivist who has performed & organized with queer movements around the world. They are committed to building radical queer movements and bodies that resist white supremacy and imperialism and like making art that thinks about these, and other what ifs. You can read some of their work at returnthegayze.tumblr.com and queerlibido.tumblr.com.
Janani Balasubramanian is a queer South Asian literary and performance artist based in Brooklyn. Their work deals broadly with themes of empire, desire, embodiment, microflora, ancestry, apocalypse, and the Future. Janani is one-half of the spoken word duo DarkMatter and a designer at RootSpace. They write for Black Girl Dangerous, an online forum for QTPOC. Janani's currently working on their first science fiction novel, H. You can read more of Janani's work at queerdarkenergy.com.
