Jared Brown

Join Noa and I this Thursday- 5/14- for the Staff & Friends Reading at the Poetry Foundation. 6PM, free and wheelchair accessible. 📸: Evan Geczy

THIS SATURDAY 5/09 - SONIC SISTA: GIRLY***, LEAH DAMTE, YASMEENAH $10 till 11pm/ $20 after 9pm-3am 21+ Sonic Sista is brought to you by @yasmeenahxo Yasmeenah is a Somali-American DJ, Curator and multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis, MN. Her set this Saturday will bring you on a journey through Acid Jazz, House, Techno, Club, Footwork, Jungle, EBM & more. An established event organizer, she’s the founder of UNBOTHERED, a party series focused on highlighting DJs pushing dance music culture forward. Her DJ sets are moved by joy, love, release, and connection through celebration. girly*** ( @jsbxse ) is a DJ and performance alias born and currently based in Chicago. Bass, vocal samples, synths, vinyl and community allow girly*** to bend time and bridge gaps between genres bred in the Midwest, Baltimore, UK, the Tri-State area and cyberspace. Listeners should expect the unexpected from a girly*** set. DJ Leah Damte ( @dxmte.leah ) is a Sound Artist based in Chicago by way of Minnesota by way of Ethiopia. By centering storytelling, she aims to bring listeners to study, movement, and meditation. Her set will blend Trance, Techno, Electro, House, Disco, New Wave, and Juke. #chicagoclubscene #chicagodj #chicagounderground #chicagohouse #chicagotechno

Y’all we still over here just STUNNED by the energy, turnout (one of the biggest nights ever at pod btw!), and love in the room at our last show @podlasieclub . Over here, we really, really take this sh!t so serious— our people, Black folks, brown folks, queer folks, marginalized peoples all around— deserve decadence, abundance, and somebody taking care of us.We went to church and back again w y’all, and we couldn’t be more grateful, wouldn’t have wanted to do it with anybody else 💕 Thank you to Houston’s best @amarji_king , our hometowm girl coming to check on us from NYC @stemmequeensupreme , and the incredible duo sprng/smmr aka @djgaybash and @jsbxse for a 3 hour open that MOVED us. Sh!t was so good, might have to run it back top to bottom. These lovelies (and hot chip?) got motion and a whole lotta heart— thank yall for giving us what we wanted, needed. To our patrons and dancers— we love you bad. Yall always say how thankful you are but this? This is by us, for us. We on a mission and ain’t scared to be militant about it: WE DESERVE IT ALL! So thank YOU for coming, for staying, for breaking bread (or hot chip lol) with us. You get it because club hospitality is you, it’s us. Yall the tastemakers, we just be putting us all in the same room 💕 Stay with us, more coming for you soon. Till then, we hoping somebody’s being good to you (and send em this if they need a reference on how the damn thing is done)!💋 ttyl bbs, Club Hospitality 📸: @lexvasquez_ light display by @nix_the_boy #chicago #chicagomusic #club #badbitches

Friday! @esschicago we're thrilled for the opening of 𝘖𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘦) featuring work in and about public space. Opening performances by AJ McClenon and Jared Brown – and work in the gallery by Mark Alcazar Diaz, Jared and AJ, Christa Donner, Eliza Fernand, J. Kent, John-Michael Korpal with Nina Montenegro, and JeeYeun Lee. @malcazard @x.donner @eliza.fernand @compostrose @jmkorpal @nimonte @jeeyeun One’s Position (and a route) Audible Gallery @ ESS 5925 N Ravenswood Ave Opening Reception April 17 from 6-9PM #ContemporaryArt #Opening #FreeChicago #AndARoute #PublicSpace #Navigations

Yall really thought we was gon let up, huh? 🤭 At Club Hospitality, all we got is that good music hood music, that family treatment, hot chip, and bad b*tches. We don’t know nothing about anything else I’m sorrrryyy!! 🙈

Been keeping this one in the bag but let me TELL you that we got ourselves a damn show! You know we always comin’ with that ~heat, and this time is no different. We back @podlasieclub and we have THEE AMARJI KING @amarji_king ! Amarji King is a DJ, producer, and nightlife curator (@club.shugga )—she's a force in the Houston club scene. Her sets blend ballroom, club, footwork, techno and more, channeling the true spirit of the queer underground she calls home. Truly the doll that does it all, and we couldn’t be more excited to have her in the Chi’. We also have LITA DA DOLL @stemmequeensupreme pulling up y’alll! Born and raised in Chicago and now based in NYC, it is always such a treat to her back in the city. If you aren’t familiar, come find out because those know are RUNNING to the door to buy a ticket. Her sets are nothing short of spiritual and moving, as she often pulls from gospel, electronic music, and rap to make you feel something different, special. 

If that wasn’t enough for y’all, we got the B2B debut of DJ GAYBASH @djgaybash and girly*** /@jsbxse : sprng/smmr. Familiar faces at club hospitality, these two are about to put this work in— expect a range of house, techno, femme rap & rnb edits, and energy. Playing clubs and parties across the city, these two are a guaranteed tasty snack for your ears~

This crew? It’s giving divas UP. It’s giving… the girls are winning, stay winning. The block is hot again and the bag is DEEP, full of hot chip and heat from so many genres and diasporas all night long, promise you that! So get ready (stay ready tbh) to take a lil bite of what we got for ya 😏 can bet you’ll want another, and you know we love taking care of you Light Installation by @nix_the_boy 21+ 9PM-3AM $10 till 10PM, $15 till 10:30, $20 after

o composition 00; 2022;the School of Art Gallery at University of Manitoba. Commissioned and curated by Grace Deveney Always something special with Janelle- like these drawings over our ableton project file. Thank you Miguel for lending us your studio. Thank you Nic Wilson. Thank you Blair Fornwald. Congratulations, Grace! And thank you for your continued interest and support. catalogue published by the University of Manitoba, printed by Urban Ink Manitoba

I’ll take a laugh wherever I can get one <3 📸: @gilda.designerthriftboutique

E is for extended breakdown(s) ! ———- Overjoyed to capsule this moment with dear friend and collaborator, Nomi. Her debut book, E, is out everywhere via nightboat press. Thank you to Armando Lozano, Riley Yaxley, Eva Geczy, MahNu and Ang Zheng for enriching this piece with images from your archives. And thank you to my editor, Nadia and all of the sixty staff for their continued enthusiasm and support of my work. 📸: Riley Yaxley

E is for Elastic Arts next Sunday @doyounoapoet @nightboat_books (1/11)

Ok goddesses, here’s a clip of my preview poetry performance from my book E last Sunday at the church of Trans Vengeance, hosted by @guild.literary.complex at @podlasieclub by the inimitable @ganjacum_ in a lineup that also featured Chicago icon @celestes.wrld A conjuring, a forced feminization of the canon, a misheard remix of Louis(e) Zukofsky, a trans séance, a poetry-club ritual portal… Liner notes: that’s @jsbxse (girly***) on the decks, live mixing a track we produced together on Halloween with relaxxX. Video documentation by @emgeczy . Thanks to @con_bot for tech support! My debut E is available for pre-order from @nightboat_books . She’s out January 13, so mark your calendars for the official book launch party in Chicago: January 11 at @elasticarts .

Next Saturday, I get to set the tone for Sagittarius season and for 2 legends: Striz and my mother, Shaun J. Wright. 11/22. 9pm. Podlasie Club. Need I say more?

🔊🔊🔊 I am excited to present "Fugitive Erotics - A girly*** Mix" — an hourlong work by @jsbxse , 2024 @bads_lab fellow Jared Brown (a.k.a. girly***). Emerging from dialogues, research, and experiments conducted during BADS_lab 2024 and subsequent Futurhythmachines workshops, my latest book, Fugitive Erotics: Black Rites of Breakage & Repair, explores erotic desire as a dynamic, world-making force that resists containment and (re-)creates sensuality and intimacy in the break. The book also considers how Black electronic dance musics — house, techno, jungle, and more — inherit and extend Afro-diasporic spiritual practices whose subliminal and sublime forces persist within, and insist upon, the sonic. Formed within urban and digital landscapes, these musics diffract ancestral African rhythms, producing new patterns of pulse and participatory antiphony (call-and-response). The hourlong mix by 2024 BADS_lab fellow Jared Brown (a.k.a. girly***) interrogates and extends the book’s meditations on Black electronic dance musics. The full mix is available on the Fugitive Erotics project page on the BADS_lab website. -- girly*** is a DJ and performance alias born and currently based in Chicago. Bass, vocal samples, synths, vinyl, and community allow girly*** to bend time and bridge gaps between genres bred in the Midwest, Baltimore, the UK, the Tri-State area, and cyberspace. Listeners should expect the unexpected from a girly*** set. Every blend may not be perfect, but every blend will be poetic. SmartBar, Hidden Ideas, Smoke & Mirrors, Podlasie Club, and Miyagi Records are a few places girly*** has been witnessed. -- Fugitive Erotics and the mix aboe features art by 2024 BADS_lab fellow Letaru Dralega, @letaru.dralega . Dust, 2021 — Oil, spray paint & 24ct gold leaf on canvas