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It’s the small (format) things. 💋 Happy National Coffee Day from yer local gay cafe. Xo

On Friday, September 18th, we’re inviting you to step inside of The Erotic as Power— a group exhibition of visual art accompanied by a night of performance. Artists will be exploring Audre Lorde’s 1978 speech and essay Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. This art showcase features 12 artists exploring the erotic as an internal source of emotional, creative, and political power. The “Erotic as Power” will ask you to step outside the box, guided by Lorde’s definition of the erotic as a measure for deep satisfaction and connection, which lures us to practice the refusal of settling for mediocrity and numbing the conformity demanded by society.

Here for a good time but not a long time today. 💋

What Autumn flavors are you dreaming of? Let us make those dreams come true! 🎃

Q***r Bookclub is back after our Summer Break! The last Monday of the month we’ll be reading a collection of short stories titled “Fat Swim” by Emma Copley Eisenberg. Each short story’s q***r, fat & trans representation offers readers a seasonal place to swim through our inherent interconnectedness, joy, and relational complexities. This read is sexy, fiercely loving, and starkly honest. The author offers this raw, radical read as a book about “the space between the real self and the self the world and the internet reduces us to, particularly for women, fat people, and q***r people. But it is also for anyone who has ever been confused about the great mystery that is being a human being with a body.“

Q***r Bookclub is free and there is no need to sign up, just bring yourself! We’ll have drinks, and snacks available for purchase. Use your library card at or buy your book from your favorite local bookstore like or

Open art show call now open! Submissions due by 8/3 at midnight. The erotic.

The erotic as a source of aliveness-—an aliveness that connects us to ourselves and each other.

This exhibition invites us to explore:

How q***rness shapes our erotic knowledge.

Forms of intimacy, care, desire, grief, joy, and connection that emerge outside of dominant frameworks.

Q***r and trans embodiments of pleasure, desire, and self-determination.

Erotic power as refusal, softness, rage, play, tenderness, and/or rest.

Non-normative intimacies, chosen family, and q***r relationally.

Practices that resist commodification and spectacle in favor of presence, sensation, and truth.

The erotic as a site of empowerment, intimacy, and self-definition.

Reclaiming joy, sensation, and connection as political and creative acts.

We are primarily looking for 2D visual art in mediums of painting, photography, fiber arts, poetry and all kinds of print based practices. We are accepting submissions that also include: installation, performance, video, sound, text-based work, experimental practices, and interdisciplinary approaches. We welcome both emerging and established artists. Eligibility: Open to artists of all backgrounds! QTBIPOC artists to the front.

On the last day of Pride Month we’re teaming up with a Apothica Herbs + Coffee Bar to bring you a family-centered free Pride Event! Two drag acts will be reading stories and we’ll have coloring supplies for the kiddos. There will be lite fare for purchase (Apothica’s famous Mac & Cheese) plus pastries and cafe sips.

It’s still Pride Month so we’re not slowing down just yet—but damn, let’s take a moment to appreciate how beautiful the weekend was! Thank you to Project Weber/RENEW, Tameka Eastman-Coburn, Craftland, Rocky Lane , and all the many hands who helped make our yearly Overdose Prevention Training, Pride Popup, and Juneteenth celebration possible! Stay tuned for more Pride Month events beginning again tomorrow, Monday June 22nd with “Disabili-Tea” from 6:00-7:00pm in collaboration with Strange Offerings

A few of the plants we’ll be giving away for Juneteenth tomorrow starting at 10am ❤️‍🔥