How can fashion transform into a tool of emancipation and revolution? & How do BIPOC Trans & Queer communities resist and fight against the imposed binaries of the fashion industry?
For this edition of Queer City we are ready to deconstruct and abolish the binary view of clothing and gender expression, we are creating a space to heal the wounds that imposed ideas of fashion have left to BIPOC trans & queer communities and we are giving a stage and recognition to the fluidity of gender identity and everyone that resists.
Expect stories of emancipation, performances that break the norm, clothes swapping, reflections about the sustainability of fashion and conversations with BIPOC trans & queer communities that have decided to stand against the ‘norm’ and find their own gender expression through clothing and decolonial fashion.
Join this very special edition to celebrate the 3 year anniversary of Queer City and help us to keep giving a stage and a place to BIPOC voices.
About QueerCity
QueerCity is a multidisciplinary program filled with art, theater, performances, talks, intimate conversations, music and poetry.
We created this space to give a stage and a place to the trans & queer BIPOC community.
In a world of censorship and silence, QueerCity wants to stand for a Free Palestine, Free Congo, Free Sudan, Free Haiti and freedom to all territories affected by colonialism and imperialism.
More about the speakers
Mini Maxwell is an interdisciplinary artist and curator. Their work shows a great fascination for the human body in a wide set of art forms. For example Fashion, photography, performance, club culture, film and sound art. The work has a strong focus on and a relationship with LGBTQIAP+ culture. They are founder of Queer Landing, This is Upepo, Momentum Movement and co-founder Queer Bodies.
Bappie is a trans plus size model that is has one simple mission: Making sure the queers are comfortable and fashionable. By sharing his knowledge for menswear and tailoring he tries to help his community thread by thread.
Natsumi ID a transgender woman from Nicaragua with a refugee background who flew to NL back in 2018. Active volunteer member with organizations such as: Papaya Kuir, Rainbow House, Trans United Nederland.
Rah Naqvi (he/they) is an Indian artist currently based in Amsterdam. Their work engages in narratives themed around religious and societal polarisation, often using art as a tool to question structural hegemonies. The materiality and techniques in their work are at play to create familiarity with the viewer; with satire, whimsical props, and themes of softness you are made to believe something joyous awaits. Rah uses this familiarity, these grounds for communion to navigate more complex and dynamic subjects of belonging and imposed colonial identities. Intrinsic to their work is their trans-ness, as explored in their performances, Rah seeks for trans-masculine joys in unlikely spaces, dwelling in the overlaps of trans marginal solidarity with the working class. The language of queer defiance extends to their practice of singing, alluding to the polyphonic nature of love and revolution while cautioning against the monotony of a choice-less future.
Drinks in the café of Pakhuis de Zwijger
