Juiccy Misdemeanor is ready to get down and disorderly tonight.
"They'll be giving a little history about mainstream ballroom, Kiki House of Ballroom, and putting on some demonstrations and cyphers, aka voguing the house down boots," Misdemeanor says."It'll just end the month on a really good high, and hopefully people will continue to do the work."
"I think that it's been taken out of context a lot, and it's become very much a capitalized, performative moment. Especially being an entertainer, knowing people are going to ask you to do stuff because you're Black, and it's the month, and they want to make sure their establishment is seen as supporting 'Black Lives Matter.' Especially since that movement, the performative actions have skyrocketed tenfold," she says.
It was Misdemeanor's assistant who pushed her to go through with the show concept."I give all credit to my assistant; her name is Tamara Clark. She set up the whole thing. She said, 'Do you think we should do a show for this month?' And I said, 'Yeah, but I don't know what I'm feeling.
"This month, this time, this celebration that people have — I think for some it means a lot. It means being seen and doing things you probably couldn't normally do, or being sought after as much as you wish you were all year," Misdemeanor says."The other day I had a moment when I was talking to a venue and a business, and I was like, 'No.' It felt so good to say no.
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