today we’re at Washington Hall hearing from people like Albina Cabrera of KEXP who love artists and want to trade intel on how best to support them. the Red Hot newsletter out Sunday will have some takeaways from these convos! enter your email: transa.world

tho Vera has an entire production studio for music-making and podcasts, they let teens and young adults make their own projects and don’t brand anything under the venue’s umbrella. notable that their main source of promo is still word of mouth.

yesterday’s host venue, The Vera Project, is the second-longest-running DIY venue in the US. the city of Seattle owns their (vast) main building downtown and it’s on a 5-year lease. it’s funded on 55 percent revenue and 45 percent donations/grants.

"Mon Cheri" was feat. on our 2021 🎧'RED HOT + FREE' compilation for humanitarian charities.

▪️"Mon Cheri" - ingroov.es/mon-cheri
▪️ Remixes - ingroov.es/mon-cheri-iy...
▪️ Video - youtu.be/RO_9LDW4YhM?...

love this Gwen ✨

This, along with Hunter Schafer speaking out about how receiving a passport with the wrong gender marker does not erase who she is, calls to Hunter’s performance of an Eileen Myles poem on Transa:

“left a message in the sand / it’s true / you picked it right up”

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A dream where a passport -- a self -- is something that you make not something given to you by anyone. In a letter to his gallerist in 1992, Gonzalez-Torres wrote that the blank paper represents an "untouched feeling" -- something no state can take away.

The artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres imagined identity as open possibility in "Untitled (Passport).” He invited people to simply take a blank piece of paper from a stack and inscribe it with THEIR selves and THEIR places. (images from the FGT Foundation)