The Movement
“Shout-out Black women, shout-out trans folk, WE SEE YOU.”
The dance floor erupts in jubilee. The DJ proclaims these affirmations from his booth, situated amidst the electric crowd. The stage behind him is alive with Black and Brown and queer and gender non-conforming and women-identified patrons — these identities are physically raised in the space, highlighting the party’s intentional centering of non-White, non-cis, non-heterosexual identities. While not an exclusionary space, it is made very clear that this dance floor is not for or about them, a rare find in our increasingly gentrified landscape…
