June 2024: Transvengence, Pride Month – Turn Up! Edition

Featuring Jack and Lynzo the Heartthrob, with your host, Joss Barton.

Open mic starts at 7:30pm.

Learn more about Transvengence here.

Lynzo The Heartthrob is a born & bred Chicagoan; an exotic dancer with a background in ballet, modern, and African dance teachings. Emceeing/producing Black LGBTQIA events, Mixology, Plus Size Styling, Dance (both exotic and traditional) teachings carries Lynzo across the stages of Chicago, Los Angeles, & London, England. Chicago’s Big Titty Heartbreaker!

Jack is a 25 year old transsexual woman who has lived in Chicago since 2023. Like her trans woman fam, she is interested in story telling, whores, and trans identity formation through experiences of medicalization & violence. 

Joss Barton is a writer, journalist, and spoken word performance artist exploring and documenting queer and trans* life, love, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the soundtrack of the American nightmare. Combining prose poetry, non-fiction confessional essays, drag artistry, and spoken word stage performances, Joss examines the myriad states of queer trans womanhoods from historical, political, and pop cultural identities of death, desires, dreams, and disco.