🔻ANY OTHER WAY🔻 honors the legacy of black transfemme soul singer Jackie Shane. She was a pioneer and transcestor from Nashville, TN who fled to Toronto in the late 1950s after witnessing intense violence against the black community in the south. She presented femme and butch but never confirmed her trans identity publicly until later in life, after leaving the music world to retire in TN. Her live shows in Toronto were where she could shine, not knowing she was changing the world just by showing up as her true authentic self.
On Thursday we will time travel to a moment when queers were organizing their own revolution in third spaces, secret cafes, and word of mouth gatherings.
@djbrownangel , infinite Jess, and
@flavia_elisa_mora are your music selectors. At 12am your Midnight Queens will bring those tracks to life- legendary performers
@per_sia @20volume curated by resident queen
@yome.alone .
This party is for the fam that supports the dolls, the mixed race homies, the kids raised in the Mission, the queers growing up in community. It’s for me to keep going, to inspire others to survive in a moment we need it most. It’s for my Nanamma and Thaatha who were freedom fighters in India fighting colonization and falling in love during a revolution.
Special shout out to my collaboraters flavi,
@reallyrealshit ,
@paul_costuros and the
@theknockoutsf . Please join us, cry on the dance floor, take epic photos in the Knockout Photo Booth and Polaroid portraits. Thursday March 12th, 9pm - 2am, $5-$10 gay dollars but no one turned away for lack of funds. 👽🙏🏽👽
