Where community walks: ballroom in Edmonton
Omree Old Navy at YEG Ballroom’s Black History & Futures Community Ki. Brooklyn Brown/The Griff Leaders and members of YEG Ballroom speak about the importance of ballroom’s history and legacy. Today’s mainstream culture seems to love throwing shade and serving realness, but people may not know where the language originated. Ballroom vernacular has a rich and complicated history rooted in Black and queer subcultures, a culture that continues to flourish as a space of acceptance. "We humans, we need that. We need community and family," says Star 007, a local ballroom community member. “[Ballroom] has allowed me a lot of space to breathe.” Ballroom is a queer subculture that consists of competitions where people walk, perform,...
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