La MaMa's Squirts: Generations of Queer Performance

FRIDAY JUNE 7, 7PM

Journey Streams + Jack Halberstam
Kyle Carrero Lopez
Elliot Reed
Ita Segev

SATURDAY JUNE 8, 7PM

Ceyenne Doroshow + Rio Sofia
Maya Margarita
Kay Gabriel
Flower

SUNDAY JUNE 9, 5PM

Linda La + Tahtianna Fermin
Amygdala
Viva Ruiz
Bazeed

Journey Streams is a writer, performer, and nightlife historian based in Brooklyn, NY. She has presented work with Document Journal, The Poetry Project, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum.

Jack Halberstam is a cultural critic and theorist and is the author of a few books on gender variance, failure, trans embodiment, monstrosity, queer time and space and wildness. He is currently finishing a book on queer and trans “an architectures” or ways of unbuilding the world. Jack, true to his work on failure, rarely gets fellowships or other conventional markers of success, but this year, after only about 23 years of trying, he was awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. He still intends to commit to failure.

Ceyenne a trinidadian and Japanese of descent created GLITSINC (Gays and Lesbians Living In A Transgender Society). GLITSINC is based in Queens New York Ozone Park. Ceyenne Doroshow (pronounced Kai-Ann) is a compassionate powerhouse performer, activist, organizer, community-based researcher and public figure in the trans and sex worker rights’ movements. As the Founder and Executive Director of GLITSINC, she works to provide holistic care to LGBTQIA+ sex workers and the whole LGBTQIA-TGNC And Bi-POC communities while serving on 11+ international boards including SWOPUSA, SWOP Behind Bars, Lysistrata, SOAR Institute, Caribbean Equality Project, NYU Law, Nowadays, Transgender Justice of San Francisco, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, ILGA , NAC, NSWP North American Representative and many more.

Flower is a Trans Chicana writer, performer, and drag artist based in Brooklyn, NY! Originally from Laredo, Texas, she arrived in NY ten years ago to pursue a BA in English with a focus in Dramatic Writing from Pace University. Previous theater training include LAB’s Intensive Ensemble and Breaking the Binary’s Musical Theater Intensive. Some of Flower’s writing has been presented with The Playground Experiment and was recently a part of the inaugural The Outrage: Queer Writers Retreat. Follow her on instagram @mxflowertortilla

Linda La is an international, multidisciplinary SAG-AFTRA performer, recording artist, writer, teacher, curator and more. From the Boogie Down Bronx, New York, out of the NYC Vogue Ballroom Scene, her experimental sound has been articled in both AFROPUNK and The Fader. She has been featured in The New Yorker, W Magazine, and more. She has curated performances with New York Live Arts, Soho Repertory Theater, VICE and more. In 2021, she was awarded the New York State Proclamation at NYC’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Jubilee. She can also be seen as Swan in the hit series finale of POSE on FX. Currently residing on Munsee-Lenape land, she continues her direct service to Black and Brown transgender communities through teaching movement and poetry, providing guidance and mentorship, workshops and curating/organizing creative nightlife events as co-founder of The House of Transcendence. Her work can be found on all major streaming platforms and archived at the Brooklyn Museum. Find out more at LindaLa.world.

Amygdala — colloquially“Amy” — is a Brooklyn based drag apparition and multidisciplinary artist who merges video, sound design, live performance, and fiber art into audiovisual installations. Their work explores the expansive potential of disembodiment, often using light as a medium to abstract the physical body and examine intuitive circuits of interconnection; a provocation of the fourth-dimensional self. Performances are cerebral, existential, acutely analytical, and unapologetically queer. Recent explorations are combined under two ongoing series titled A Body of Light / A Body of Tongues and GLAMOUR GIRLwhich have had works displayed at Parasol Projects, Grace Exhibition Space, Stone Circle Theatre, and House of Yes. They were a top 4 finalist in the 2023 cycle of Untitled (Art Star), a competition that centers high concept drag performance, produced by Jessamess and Squirts alum Untitled Queen. In May they debuted the first production of a new series titled PLEASURE DOME: A variety show merging drag, performance art, and contemporary dance under a performative pursuit of pleasure, utopia, and queer futurity. Special thank you to Paris and Buffy for beaming them into this plane to wreak havoc.

IG: @amygdala

Viva Ruiz is a community/family/nightlife/sex work educated Ecuadorian American artist, at work and play in New York City. We are a storyteller in continuously emerging mediums, primarily in spaces and for people and in ways that are not valued by the institutions of art. Since 2015 we have been building power and birthing pro-abortion aesthetics with the #thankgodforabortion experiment. Intentional about time bending intentional about naming the white supremacist class war we are enduring intentional about ecstasy and rage intentionally calling more beautiful worlds into being with and in service to the spirits that walk with us.

Bazeed is a multi–award winning Egyptian playwright, poet, performer, curator, massage therapist, and cook. An alliteration-leaning writer of prose, poetry, plays, pleas, and pantry lists, their work has been published in print and online, and their plays performed on both sides of the Atlantic. To procrastinate from facing the blank page, they curate a world-music salon and open mic in Brooklyn, and are a slow student of Arabic music. @cultofbazeed &@putteraholic