It’s time, y'all! Let's fundraise for Black trans liberation at LRP’s Black Trans Comedy Showcase 2023!
Please join us for a much, much needed night of laughter, community, and resistance while we fundraise for Black trans liberation! There will be light refreshments, raffle prizes, opportunities to interact with performers (bring yall’s tips!), and so much more! Come ready to donate as you learn about LRP’s work to protect Black trans life in Washington State and beyond! Get your tickets now to start off your Pride season the right way—with us—at Lavender Rights Project’s Black Trans Comedy Showcase 2023! It’s going to be a Ki!
This year, the iconic star herself, TS Madison, is hosting our night of laughter with Mx. Dahlia Belle, KJ Whitehead, and a performance by the local queen herself, Beyonce Black St. James!
Lavender Rights Project presents
The Black Trans Comedy Showcase
7pm at The SIFF Egyptian Cinema in Seattle, Washington!
Doors open at 6pm sharp!
Tickets: $50 • Raffle tickets: $20 (purchased at event)
Accessibility Information for Our Event
• ADA Wheelchair Seating Available Upon Request
• Masks required unless you are eating or drinking
• ASL Interpretation
The Performers
Our hostess for the evening will be none other than the award winning, brilliant T.S. Madison! T.S. Madison, also known as Maddie, is an American reality television personality, actress, and LGBT activist. After becoming a viral sensation in 2013, Madison signed a recording and media contract with Pink Money Records in 2014 and released her first single "Feeling My Fish" shortly after. In 2016, Madison released her debut album, The New Supreme, and appeared with Ellis Miah and RuPaul on the song, "Drop". In 2015, she released her memoir, "A Light Through the Shade: An Autobiography of a Queen."
In 2021, The Ts Madison Experience debuted on We TV, making her the first Black trans woman to star in her own reality show. Madison's voice was sampled on the song "Cozy" on Beyoncé's 2022 album, "Renaissance."
Hilarious, ignant, and the best sort of mess, Portland-based comedian, writer, and accidental activist MX. DAHLIA BELLE shares insight like a Swiss Army knife - different tools to extract sharpness, softness, vulnerability, hope, and wicked wit. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Guardian, The Stranger, and Portland Mercury. She has been a repeat guest on NPR, CBC, XRAY FM, and Portland Radio Project (PRP). Live performances have included Mutiny Radio Comedy Festival, NW Black Comedy Festival, All Jane Comedy Festival, and Portland Queer Comedy Festival!
Or just KJ, is Chicago's Queen of Radical Comedy. Unapologetically Black, queer, trans and pissed off! For almost a decade, she's shared her experiences through observation and storytelling, but also blunt and vulnerable honesty about herself and how she sees the world. A graduate from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Comedy Writing & Performance, Comedy Studies Alumni and someone who can occasionally be found burning the American flag and using the ashes as eye shadow.
Beyonce Black St. James • she/her
I'm a Trans Women from New York City. I currently live in the lilac city of Spokane Washington since 1991. I've been an Entertainer for over 20 years. I am the first Trans Empress 43# of Spokane, elected from the community. I'm also Miss Universe Plus WA 2022-23 & Miss West Cost Gay United States-At-Large 2022-23. I am also the 1st in History La Femme Magnificent Enhance International 2019-22 and Miss Island Goddess 2019-23, along with 20+ other titles. Nationwide, I am your Ambassador for PrEP (Chill PILL) campaign nationwide Billboards Posters and Commercial. I'm proud to be able to use my platform as an entertainer to speak out loud and make a change for our community.
Directions to the Event!
This year’s event will be proudly hosted at The SIFF Cinema Egyptian in Seattle, WA!
The venue is located on the corner of Pine and Harvard in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
In addition to metered street parking, there is an easily accessible, paid public parking lot available across the street on the corner of Harvard and Pine. Harvard Garage (1609 Harvard Ave).
SIFF Cinema Egyptian is served by the following bus lines: 9, 10, 11, 43, 49, 60, 84.
You can use Metro Trip Planner or One Bus Away to help plan your trip.
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About Lavender Rights Project
Lavender Rights Project elevates the power, autonomy, and leadership of the Black intersex & gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We utilize the law as an organizing principle to affirm our civil rights and self-determination.
Our organization disrupts oppressive systems that target Black gender diverse and intersex communities of color and lead to disproportionate levels of poverty, housing disparities, and gender-based violence, especially among Black and Indigenous people.
OUR VISION
Lavender Rights Project is creating a world in which the Black and Indigenous gender diverse communities are at the forefront of liberation and recognized for our power to build. Representation matters and we are an organization led by Black trans women and femmes. By following their wisdom and nuanced understanding of community needs, we will build decolonized systems of care and support for our people.
OUR LEADERSHIP
Our staff leadership council, formerly known in the community as the WA State Black Trans Task Force, is an intersectional, multi-generational project of community building, research, and political action addressing the crisis of violence against Black trans women and femmes.
Since 2019, they have been providing financial, emotional, and strategic resources for Black trans women and femmes in order to broaden safety nets & increase avenues for justice. Made up of Black trans and non-binary staff members in the Puget Sound, our leadership council guides both the vision and the day-to-day operations of the organization as a whole. Their work is integrated into every key element of LRP.