just a little 1,2,3,4,5 i gave the girls at the telfar spring/summer 2019 fashion week after party. you really had to be there but this is taste and then some. i really wanna know what you got up in ya bag? tell me! #whatsinyabagchallenge

beat by capital kaos "vader(imperial cunt mix)"
bag art by glenn hardy

WHAT'S IN YA BAG (TELFAR HA)

Introducing #FATFEMMERADIO, a mixtape nostalgia type radio segment. More to come.

FAT FEMME RADIO: EPISODE 1

I made this track after my 2014 performance art piece “A Vogue For Freedom” inserting my love of negro spirituals, gospel and protest chants over the ha; in this case, over Byrell The Fake’s “AMERIKA (TOOL).” 

O’Shae Sibley (Sage Dumure Versailles) was murdered in front of people he loved and protected in what is an egregious hate crime on the basis of sexuality and race. Black queer and trans people are under attack and this is a war cry to commemorate the action planned today where members of the House and Ballroom Community will assemble a ball at the site of his murder. 


too much 
this world is too much 
stabbed a nigga in the heart for voguin 
too much 
this hate be too much 
that they teach em hate before love 
too much 
religion too much 
that a child would take a life for 
too much,
our bodies too much
gas station dancin for joy 
too much 
this world be too much 
put a lighter in the air, and show love, 
put a lighter in the air and speak love, 
put a lighter in the air and be love, 
oshae in life he was love, 
oshae in death he is love(d).

Artwork by Kendrick Daye

A WAR CRY FOR OSHAE (AFTER AMERIKKKA)

born out of frustration, "a vogue for freedom"  is a vocal performance piece that situates black gay/queer/trans*/gnc bodies at the center of movement making while also contemplating/imagining new/otherwise worlds (sans police) through performance. politicizing the house ballroom chant, it constitutes a new form of prose placing civil rights freedom songs, protest chants, and negro spirituals over "the ha dub rewerk'd" by dj mike q. in the spirit of house-ballroom commentators, "a vogue for freedom" invites the audience to a new kind of protest -- one that calls for the 'kidz' to 'carry', dance, and celebrate fiercely. 

further, it serves as an embodied critique of the ways in which traditional approaches to demonstrations, protests, and critical thought are respectable, ableist and queer/trans-phobic. It's a track for the kidz, for allah my comrades out in the streets marching and protesting all over the united states, for the vogue divas, for the folks who are fed up, for the folks who are looking for a way to creatively release their anger and rage in response to black death and genocide, and police brutality.

this, too, is a meditation for black lives. it is an invitation to dance and celebrate black lives and a nod to allah the freedom fighters -- past and present. 



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