CELEBRATE | Indigiqueer Festival
There is no shortage of Pride events in Seattle during the month of June—between parades, parties, and drag shows, it’s hard to decide on what to attend. To kick off your Pride weekend festivities, consider making your way down to the waterfront for the Indigiqueer festival: an all-ages event celebrating the beauty and power of Indigiqueer/Two-Spirit people. The fest features a long lineup of queer, Native drag queens, dancers, and musicians who’ll take the stage to entertain and gather in joy. Performances will be hosted by drag queen and event organizer, Hailey Tayathy of the Quileute Nation, who uses their queer Native experiences to inform their unique brand of drag through which they aim to bring healing to Indigenous communities.
June 23rd | 4:00 – 8:00 pm @ Pier 62
LEARN | Cyberfeminism Index Book Launch
In a rigid tech world dominated by men, designer, professor, and researcher, Mindy Seu, has carved out a resourceful space of radical techno-critical activism. In Cyberfeminism Index, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology. The book includes more than 700 short entries in a variety of media, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces, digital rights activist groups, and bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art. Cyberfeminism Index is beautifully and carefully constructed by Seu, who will be at the book launch for a performative reading followed by a panel discussion. Other panelists include Kemi Adeyemi, UW Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and author of Feels Right: Black Queer Women & the Politics of Partying in Chicago, and Anna Lauren Hoffman, Associate Professor with The Information School at UW and senior fellow with the Center for Applied Transgender Studies.
June 15th | 6:30 – 8:30 pm @ Seattle Central Library
SUPPORT | REVIVAL: Juneteenth Pop-Up Market
Celebrate and support Black-owned businesses in the heart of the Central District this Juneteenth by stopping at the REVIVAL Pop-Up Market. Capitol Hill EcoDistrict has paired with ARTE NOIR to bring back this outdoor market with a mission to center local Black, Brown, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ businesses. The vendors featured in REVIVAL don’t have traditional storefront locations, so attendees will be able to find goods they can’t find anywhere else, like vintage clothes from JAMIL, crystal carvings from Nefertiti Holistic’s, perfumes from SAMAR, and stories from mobile bookstore Hella Black Books. While you shop, enjoy tunes from a special KEXP live broadcast hosted by DJ Riz.
June 18th | 12:00 – 5:00 pm @ Midtown Square Plaza