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Black excellence on Halloween ❤️

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FADE: A3C Send-Off

// SOUNDS // THEakasha Aura

Special guest: Pineapple Citi

// TICKETS // fade.pubwebb.com

// THE MOVE // This month, FADE is special because we will be using its profits to fundraise for an upcoming showcase. On Thursday, Oct. 4, her philly moves will produce the first QTPOC-centered showcase during one of hip hop’s biggest festivals - A3C festival in Atlanta, GA, and we are asking YOU to help us make it possible.

FADE: Pop Out Recap by @SaeedSVP

Profits from this event go towards helping her philly moves fundraise for your fave local artists - including Lavvagirl, CageBird, Kid The Great, THEakasha, and DJ Jamz, to travel down to Atlanta to attend and participate in A3C.

Spread love and come turn up with us! Ya don’t wanna miss out!

// WANT MORE INFO? // Consider donating to our GoFundMe to further support the artists!

// EVENT DEETS // 21+ You can pay at the door when online sales close. We accept Paypal, Cash App, and Venmo. The venue is accessible by wheelchair. Complimentary frozen margharitas (while supplies last)

// TICKETS // fade.pubwebb.com

// FACEBOOK // FADE Event Page

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Discount Universe @ NYFW 2018 Photo by @anishaspice​

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FADE: Pop Out Edition Recap

Fam, we were feeling soooo down when we had to cancel the August JUICE event! But, although it was a bummer, you allowed us to create magic during FADE.

Check out these photos, taken by Kaltoum Alibrahimi

Sounds: THEakasha | Baby.com | Delish

Featuring: This Free Life

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Hey! Do you wanna help QTPOC get involved in one of the country’s largest hip hop festivals?

her philly moves is bringing down several Philly-based artists to participate in A3C Hip Hop Festival and Conference. And YOU can help us make it happen!

Click the link and learn more!

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Fam, you gon pop out with us at FADE this Saturday?

Your fave queer jawn returns Saturday at Pub Webb. Featuring This Free Life, we’re giving you a night of pure madness, featuring your fave DJ’s, a Jose Cuervo and Tito’s open bar and a body paint station by Lavva.

Sounds: THEakasha | Baby.com | Delish

FREE ADMISSION to the first 100 people to arrive! RSVP NOW!

Videography: Jasmine Lynea

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Fam, you gon pop out with us at FADE this Saturday?

Your fave queer jawn returns Saturday at Pub Webb. Featuring This Free Life, we’re giving you a night of pure madness, featuring your fave DJ’s, a Jose Cuervo and Tito’s open bar and a body paint station by Lavva.

Sounds: THEakasha | Baby.com | Delish

FREE ADMISSION to the first 100 people to arrive! RSVP NOW!

Videography: Jasmine Lynea

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JUICE: The Hoodstock Recap

Fam, JUICE/HoodStock/Carefree Black Girl Cookout was crazy! A collaboration between her philly moves, Philadelphia Urban Creators and Carefree Black Girl, the events brought out several hundred community members across various generations and identities to celebrate art, food, music, and black magic! Check it out below!

Photos: @kvltoum

Performers included:

THEakasha

DJ G33K

Hardwork Movement

Ill Fated Natives

DJ Jamz

Matthew Law

Joie Kathos

Seraiah Nicole

DJ Sylo

Queen Phierce

Your Favorite Jawns

and sooo much more!

Community Vendors:

Lezcronymz

Rejected Society

Carefree Black Girl Glam Bar

Free Brunch

Mural Arts

Sponsor: Young American Cider

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Resources for Black Trans Women Surviving Rape/Abuse: Articles, Blogs, Books, Video Links

Articles

Legalities of excluding Trans women from women only spaces

Sexual Assault in the Transgender Communities

Violence Against Black Transgender Women Goes Largely Ignored

Black Transgender Women Every Breath a Black Trans Woman Takes Is an Act of Revolution

Black Trans Women: In the Crosshairs

LGBT PEOPLE ARE MORE VICTIMIZED THAN ANY OTHER MINORITY. BUT WITHIN THAT WORLD, TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR FACE THE WORST OF ALL 5 Black Trans Women Who Paved the Way

The Violence That Black Trans Women Face

Pages/Blogs For Black Trans Women

TransGriot-News, opinions, commentary, history and a little creative writing from a proud African-American transwoman about the world around her.

Janet Mock

Toni D Newman

Black Trans Women’s Lives Matter-Community

TOCC- Trans Women of Color Collective- The purpose and intent of our collective is to create safe spaces for Trans and gender non-conforming people of color to:

SELF CARE-Foster sisterhood, brotherhood and kinship. We must take care of ourselves before we can take on the world.

EDUCATE, EMPOWER, CELEBRATE COMMUNITY, STRATEGIZE

Books for Trans Women (some written by Trans Black/POC Women)

  Cooking in Heels by Ceyenne Doroshow

Trauma Queen by Lovemme Corazón

Memoirs of a GayShe by Garland Guidry

I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman by Toni Newman

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community

By Laura Erickson-Schrot

Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men by Lori B. Girshick 

My Life is No Accident: A memoir by Tenika Watson and Jennifer Daelyn 

Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives by Nia King

I Rise-The Transformation of Toni Newman 

Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah  by The Lady Chablis 

Yemaya’s Daughters  by Dane Figueroa Edidi

  Groups for Black Trans Women

Black Trans Advocacy - Community Network

Beautiful We: A Discussion Group for Black Women and Trans People–In collaboration with YUBSA and CWTP@York, Beautiful We offers safer space for women and trans people of the Afrikan Continent and Diaspora to discuss and celebrate Black cultures through art-making, conversation, film viewing and more. From writing workshops to informal hangouts to sharing spiritual space, Beautiful We finds the liberating place where Blackness and feminism meet. Different topics every meeting. You’re beautiful, it’s true. Meets weekly on Thursdays, at CWTP@York (room 322 of the student centre)

S.P.I.C.E for Black & Ethnic Minority Lesbian, Bisexual & Trans women-S.P.I.C.E (Sisters Promoting Identity, Culture and Empowerment) is a social/support group for Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans & Queer women of colour. 

S.P.I.C.E aims to:

- Increase the visibility of lesbian, bisexual, Trans and queer women within the black and minority ethnic communities. - challenge the prejudice and intolerance within society through education and activism.

- Provide a space for you to be yourself.

- Be a group for you to have fun and participate in various activities (all suggestions very welcome!)

- Go on day trips; nights out (scene and non-scene); dining out; Theatre; Cinema; Bowling - whatever you like! (These can be alcohol and alcohol free events to ensure everyone can participate.)

We at S.P.I.C.E are a friendly bunch and you will be greeted to our group with smiles and nibbles!! All LBTQ women of black and minority ethnic origins along with partners are welcome!

We meet on the last Friday of each month at The Equity Centre in Bradford to socialise, make friends and spend time with like minded woman for a non-judgmental and fun evening. 

The Equity Centre provides a safe environment ensuring your privacy is respected and your safety is promoted. S.P.I.C.E provides support to those that need it through sharing experiences and promoting strength and unity.

Contact Nikki at: spicebradford@gmail.com for more details.

Movies/Videos for Black Trans Women

Paris Is Burning (1990) Director Jennie Livingston

Honoring and Protecting the Lives of Black Trans Women

Published on Mar 13, 2013

NBJC hosted an unprecedented town hall featuring all Black Trans women panelists at the 2012 OUT on the Hill Black LGBT Leadership Summit. The participants discussed why it is important to be intentional about including the “T” as we develop the national Black LGBT agenda. For more information, visit nbjc.org.

Kat Blaque

BlackTransMedia Presents: I AM (HEAR)

Published on Feb 9, 2015

“I AM HEAR” is powerful, experimental, narrative exploring the role media has had in shaping the depiction of black transwomen. In the film Olympia introduces us to Ares, a black transwomen whose committed to taking control of her life and her future. Olympia Perez takes us on part of her journey, and how she is shifting and reframing black Trans power and love by creating media that speaks out about transphobia and racism, with the intent to reframe the way we view and value black Trans people in the world.

Laverne Cox on Bullying and Being a Trans Woman of Color

Published on Dec 19, 2013

In recalling an event where she was confronted by misogyny, trans-phobia, and racism all at once, Laverne Cox advocates for love and clarifies what makes a bully.

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Yoooo! Did we really have 3 whole festivals in one day??? ...Through rain AND winds???

Philly, you showed us amazing love at the HoodStock edition of JUICE. A collaboration between Urban Creators, Carefree Black Girl, and her philly moves, HoodStock/JUICE brought together several hundred people for a day of music, street art, performance, food, and community.

Featuring: Performances by Ill Fated Natives, Joie Kathos, Your Favorite Jawns, DJ G33K, Theakasha, and so many more local acts

Pop-up shops by LEZ | CRO | NYMZ, Rejected Society, CFBG/s Glam Bar

Full recap soon come

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Consent Education.

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My Name Isn’t. Art By Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

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Habrazy.

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It’s totally okay to say “you know what, this isn’t making me happy” and to walk away from whatever or whoever is keeping you from the happiness you deserve

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JUICE: June 2018 Recap

Pride Month ain’t know what hit it. JUICE - a summer day jawn for queer and trans womxn of color - came back for its second year at Life Do Grow Farm on Saturday, June 9, 6-11PM. Intersecting art, music, and cultural celebration, the Pride edition of JUICE was our biggest production yet!

A vision of a more inclusive Pride festival, JUICE featured: a lineup of diverse poets and musical acts; a film showing at dusk inside Philly Urban Creators’ new geodome (sponsored by Party Headphones); a farm-to-table vegan eatery by Earf; a custom printmaking station, curated by Philadelphia Printworks; a queer community marketplace, featuring Trans Equity Project, Rejected Society, and more; complimentary Tito’s Vodka; and an interactive art gallery.

Philly came out and did y’all thang at JUICE! We at her philly moves had an AMAZING time, and we hope you did too! We want to give a special thank you to our amazing volunteers who kept the event going strong! You got tha JUICE!

Psssst!! The next JUICE is Saturday, July 21 at Life Do Grow from noon to 8PM. See you there?

JUICE lineup

Artists

Alicia Garrison

Exhibit A

Hawkmoth

Shanel Edwards

Philadelphia Printworks

Community Vendors/Tablers

The Bodhi Spirit

Earf

FENOM Element

Hi Sweetie’s

New Voices for Reproductive Justice

Rejected Society

Trans Equity Project

DJs

Aura

Delish

Jamz

Jovi

Filmmakers

ash

Cage Bird

Jasmine Lynea

Imani Dennision and Robin Williams

Performers

Dada Esque

Cage Bird

Kid The Great

Noel Scales

Sagacious

Photo: Kvltoum

Video (coming soon): Jasmine Lynea

Feel free to save and repost these pics!

CHECK OUT ALL THE PHOTOS HERE

Photo cred: Kaltoum Alibrahimi

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Get JUICE Tatted, So We Know It’s Real

Hey squad! For JUICE, we are working with the amazing creative company StickerYou Inc. to create custom temporary tattoos and stickers! And YOU get to enjoy what we create for FREE!

To catch these giveaways, slide through to JUICE on Saturday, June 9 at Life Do Grow Farm! You can use the stickers to decorate your phones and laptops. And you can sport our tattoos to let your friends know you’re gang.

Before we order or stickers, we need your help choosing designs... VOTE HERE for the tats and stickers that you want to see at JUICE!