Hannah Viti

Hannah Viti founded The V Show, an extension of her community and the need to inquire about and capture the brilliance around her. She welcomes guests, normally friends, into her home to share their story, their work, and to engage in a larger conversation generally rooted in race, class, gender, politics, queerness or creation.
Hannah's other venture, Peach, creates stylish and sensational space for women and queer people to connect and empower. Friendship love, community, sensuality and joy are prioritized.

Sky of Rebirth Garments

Rebirth Garments are designed and made by hand Sky Cubacub who is a QPOC (Gender Queer Person of Color) from Chicago, IL with life long anxiety and panic disorders. Rebirth Garment’s mission is to create gender non-conforming wearables and accessories for people on the full spectrum of gender, size and ability. The line creates a community where all people can confidently express their individuality and identity.

Julie Marshall

Julie Marshall resides primarily in Chicago, but frequently trains out of Montreal, QC. She is a US citizen and a self-described "pretty nice person"

Julie has performed internationally, ranging from light, graceful aerial acts that have been described as “flowing, like she’s floating in water”, to acts where she’s a zombie nurse being dragged out of a body bag, or is trolling the audience as a Batman super villain. Because it’s good to have variety.

Julie has had intensive training in aerial hoop, aerial fabric, and flexibility, and studied Performance at School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

queens who bathe

A collaborative documentary series dedicated to capturing Chicago’s contemporary queer community. Because of the work LGBTQ folk have to do to be seen and valued in heteronormative, white washed, cis-gendered capitalism; constantly working hard and being spread thin can feel like an integral part of queer identity. Queer people need pampering and something as simple as taking a decadent bath can remind us that while we have so much work to do, we can also exhale. Queens Who Bathe is a way for Meadows to facilitate and celebrate that exhale with folks who are working so tirelessly to build the incredible spaces and community we have here in Chicago. With the photographers background in queer historical research, this project also functions as a snapshot of Chicago’s queer community today. Projects like Queens Who Bathe ensure that queer youth will never have to scour obscure archives and track down living storytellers to know that femme, trans, people of color, and gender-non-conforming folks have always existed and thrived in this city just as much as the hyper-visible boys of Boystown. Each set from Queens Who Bathe is personally built by Meadows for their subjects to highlight their unique presence and role in the community.

QWB APPLICATION

Andie Mckenzie Meadows

Photographer - Historian - Organizer

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