Fem Queen: The Evolution, The Revolution, The Celebration! Favorite 

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Date: 

Apr 23 2024

Location: 

NYU Skurball

For the completion of her residency as the NYU Steinhardt 2023-24 Scholar-in-Residence, Dominique Jackson collaborated with NYU students to honor the fem queen (trans women) and their historical meaning to not only ballroom but popular culture at large. The event featured a dance honoring the fem queen, a fashion show where NYU students were paired up with ballroom legends to create looks inspired by iconic fem queens, an LSS, a process that calls out individual legends, statements, and stars to honor their presence before a ball, and a performance by the Season 3 winners of HBO Max's television show, Legendary.

External sources: 

https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ballroom-collaboration
Posted by yulani.r on May 7 2024

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
The goal is to be able to celebrate and revere the fem queen as not someone who stands outside of the heteronormative but as an integral piece of the cultural fabric of today.

Notes

The show was amazing to watch and get a full educational and entertaining showcase of who fem queens are to their community.