Bounce the CitySat-Sun through 9/3 (individual timed entry from 10 AM-5:30 PM depending on day), 5 Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, $24, all-ages, bouncethecity.com As someone without a car, I do not make a habit of leaving the city, but Bounce the City at Schaumburg’s Woodfield Mall has me reviewing my transit options. Through Sunday, September 3, […]
Tag: transgender
Posted inCity Life
’Well done, Gloria Allen’
Black trans icon Mama Gloria is remembered for living an extraordinary and full life.
Posted inCity Life
‘Existing without question’
“In roller derby they don’t care if you’re gay or trans or whatever—they just accept you.”
Posted inAgenda
Pillars market, Mohawk Johnson, comic book theater, and more
From 3-8:30 PM, the Trans Chicago Empowerment Center (2753 W. Division) is hosting a Halloween edition of Pillars, its marketplace for trans BIPOC vendors. Along with tarot readings, poetry books, and handmade wares for sale, there will also be free gender-affirming nail services for trans individuals. Yecy, a local Latinx nail artist, will be providing […]
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Photos: 2022 Chicago Pride Parade
In late June, the Chicago Pride Parade returned to its in-person glory after two years of delay and cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of people headed for the north side on Sunday, June 26, to celebrate and honor the LGBTQ+ community. Marchers, drivers, and floats representing a variety of community, civic, and commercial […]
Posted in2022 Primary Elections
Testing the waters
Precious Brady-Davis hopes to make history as the first Black, openly transgender woman elected in Chicago.
Posted inCity Life
Go-going for it
GoGo for the Gold—think RuPaul’s Drag Race but for go-go boys—features a swoon-inducing roster of fuzzy bears, femme dancers in heels, and trans man Paulo Batista, all competing for a cash prize of $10,000 and the title of “American’s #1 Champion Gogo Superstar Star.” “Not everyone is attracted to six-pack abs and big thighs,” says […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Let them play
A bill to prevent trans children from sports teams that align with their gender identities stalled in the state assembly last year, but advocates warn the threat still looms large.
Posted inArts & Culture
‘I need to know trans joy exists in order to imagine myself living in the future.’
Trans joy and pain gently mingle in poet H. Melt’s new chapbook There Are Trans People Here, out this month from Chicago’s Haymarket Books. The poems in this collection give the reader a sense that all the pain and suffering the world inflicts on trans people is something that can be overcome, transformed, and understood. […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Let us be beautiful on our own terms
TAKE ME TO THE TRANS SPA where I can get my nails done with my mom, without toxic chemicals let me change in the locker room soak in the jacuzzi tub cool down in the pool with a strawberry daiquiri let me sweat in the sauna & in the back room where glory holes are […]
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You’re not allowed to just be old and embrace it
Writers Heather Corinna and Kimberly Dark got together to discuss recent writing, menopause, body image, and more this summer while west coast resident Kimberly was in Chicago visiting her son and his family. The pandemic made it difficult for them to host a public event, so they decided to share their conversation with Reader readers. […]
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Transgender Day of Remembrance ensures we don’t forget
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
Posted inMusic
Celebrating homegrown music infrastructure on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by local artist and musician Ethan D’Ercole.
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An essential point-of-view is missing in the one-woman show Big Giant Love
A mother’s teenager comes out as trans, and all she can say is, “What about me?”