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Performers of Color You Need to Know!

1/22/2018

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“I’m black, I’m dark and I’m f**king beautiful,” -actress Michaela Coel

 Foward by Briq House - 

Performers of Color in Burlesque present some of the most electrifying, awe-inspiring, binary gender defying, blood pressure raising, stigma-challenging, body positive performance art you'll see in a Cabaret setting. A person who is not of color experiencing a performing artist of color in action may only notice our style and physicality, but there is so much more to behold for those who pay attention. To understand what's happening onstage, one would need to take into consideration the mental and spiritual fortitude it requires to be a person of color in a world that hates you, and wants to see you dead, dying, or suffering.  A world that sees you as undesirable, disposable, and unworthy of love or celebration in any form. Every time a Performer of Color sets foot on a stage, we are bringing thousands of our ancestors with us. In addition to gifting us with supernatural talent and abilities, our resilient genetics also carry the trauma from the past injustices dealt to our people. This beautifully complex combination of things is etched into our bones and flowing through our veins.  ​

When you gaze upon our skin and revel at our undeniable beauty, don't forget that once we leave that stage, we go back out into the real world. It is not enough to love us only when we are entertaining you. We need you to love us when it's time to vote; bills and legislature are being passed that will directly harm our communities. We need you to love us at your local community housing meetings when you have the chance to fight for and create affordable housing; millions of artists are being displaced because of gentrification.
We need you to love us when we speak out about the ways we are being harmed in the world, and believe us the first time we say it. 

Police brutality, environmental racism, and institutional racism are still major problems we deal with every day, even if when you don't  see it in the headlines.  We need you to love us as whole people because it is as whole people we present ourselves to you.

Ms.Briq House
Creator/Producer of The Sunday Night Shuga Shaq: An All People of Color Burlesque Revue
IG/Twitter @Ms.briqhouse 

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