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March 2023
You Can’t Kill A Poet // March 2023
After a few months off, You Can’t Kill A Poet is back at it again! We’re bringing you phenomenal queer and trans poets from Philadelphia to share their work and fill the room with queer experience. Come join us for this rowdy, raucous, fun event full of feelings!
Mask-wearing is welcome. Please sit this one out if you are feeling sick.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8TH
DOORS @ 7:30PM + SHOW @ 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT
Featuring readings by:
Janiel // @manroyallvr @queeribbean
aniel (she/they) is a queer, immigrant Jamaican-American, eldest daughter, writer, lover. Through her writing, she attempts to grasp at the root ideas, concepts, generational fears and the freedome of love and empathy. First, for their own understanding and second, to contribute to the human discourse in history-shaping. Poetry is their first step in a liberatory pursuit, each line is a crumb in what she hopes will become a full trail that reinforces the necessity of voice, of talking back, of feeling.
Karyn // @THEKuhren
Karyn is a poet, community builder, DJ, and all around creative. Hailing from the wonderful world of Brooklyn, poetik has spent most of her life writing, whether it may be poems, stories, essays, journal articles, or long Facebook statuses. Karyn self published collection of poems “Labyrinth of a Melaninated Being” and “seasoned bellows” in 2018 and 2020. Her poems often center Black womanhood, relationships, mental health, and sexuality.
Ari Villeda Martinez // @haunted.bodega
bio: Ari Villeda Martinez, Transgender / Pendeja / 5.10 / Fickle
Mary Zhou // @maryzzzhou
Mary Zhou (they/she) is a poet, dancer, and visual artist based in Philadelphia. Their poetry is shared or forthcoming in Oversound, ANMLY, and Philadelphia Poet Laureate Trapeta B. Mayson’s Healing Verse Poetry Line.
Gabriel Ramirez // @ramirezpoet
Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Latinx poet and teaching artist. Gabriel has received fellowships from Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Watering Hole, The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, CantoMundo, Miami Book Fair, and a participant in the Calloloo Writer’s Workshops. You can find his work in publications like The Volta, Split This Rock, VINYL, Acentos Review as well as Bettering American Poetry Anthology (Bettering Books 2017), What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Northwest University Press 2019), and The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Press 2020). Follow Gabriel @RamirezPoet and RamirezPoet.com.
Elijah Faye // @jotunnme
Faye is a transsexual poet, and author of What Youth? who highlights the beauty in life while also addressing the hardships that come with it. Faye writes to inspire others to take power in their trauma and to show people that there is always a reason to keep living.
This reading is offered in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia with support from The Pennsylvania Department of Education.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Wednesdays, 4-11pm.
• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Find out more »Gender Queery: A Trans & Non-Binary Drag Show
The babes who busted the binary are back once again to belay the treacheries of ignorance and judgement! After 3 years of steady growth and determination, the cast of Gender Queery returns to the stages of Philly at their new legendary South Street spot, Tattooed Mom! Witness the beauty of trans and nonbinary talent as presented through our own lens. Hosted by Lamia The Cursed Queen and featuring the talents of transgender and gender nonconforming drag and performance artists in the city of Philadelphia.
Enjoy a drag show with draft beers and vegan and non vegan delights! Immerse yourself in an accepting and open atmosphere with other artists, allies, LGBTQ+ people and other locals and travelers, alike. Show your love for a community of various talents and backgrounds. Turn out and be you, and if that doesn’t do, then be someone new! It’s all up to you!
Seating is reserved for VIP ticket holders only, otherwise seating is on a first come first served basis and is not guaranteed with the purchase of a ticket.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9TH
DOORS @ 8PM + SHOW @ 9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
VIP SEATING $15 (ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE): EVENTBRITE LINK COMING SOON
CAST:
LAMIA
YARI
BEARY TYLER MOORE
ICON EBONY FIERCE
SAMANTHA SAYTEN
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• All hail Pierogi Thursday! Munch and crunch on 75¢ pierogi (vegan, obvi) plus $3 cans of Tecate every Thursday!! And don’t forget ur toppings… Thursdays, 4-11pm.
• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Find out more »Sip City & Lezapalooza Present: Butch/Masc Mixer
CALLING ALL BUTCHES!!! And those who know them, love them, date them, and just generally appreciate the mascs among us! Lezapalooza and Sip City Mixer are joining forces to host an event celebrating our butches, studs, mascs, trans mascs and ALL of those who LOVE them!
This isn’t just for singles, but if you are single and B4B, B4F or something else entirely, you don’t want to miss out! We’ll have name tags and color dots – red (taken), yellow (maybe/inquire within), and green (single and looking to mingle!), if you’re poly/enm there will be a blue sticker for you to add to any of the above.
THURSDAY, MARCH 23RD
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• All hail Pierogi Thursday! Munch and crunch on 75¢ pierogi (vegan, obvi) plus $3 cans of Tecate every Thursday!! And don’t forget ur toppings… Thursdays, 4-11pm.
• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Find out more »April 2023
Bomb Bomb at TMoms // Sip City Mixer: LGBTQ Women’s Party — **CANCELLED // TMOMS WILL BE CLOSED**
Please note that this event has been cancelled due to maintenance by the Philadelphia Water Department on our block, which has shut off our water supply. Apologies for any inconvenience. See you soon! Sip City Mixer is an intentionally diverse, inclusive, welcoming and safe space for femmes, women, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming queer Philadelphians. Bomb Bomb as in QUEER BOMB! When we all meetup at T’Mom’s, we pack the entire upstairs. They love us and we love them! If you’ve…
Find out more »Queer Life Drawing
Join us for an afternoon of lifting up queer bodies with an opportunity to draw with a live model and build community. We will do a structured schedule with gesture drawings in the beginning and moving into longer poses as time goes on. This is not a queer only event but it is a queer space and we do seek to highlight queer trans poc and fat bodies! Our ticket price is to cover paying our model for their time! Bring your favorite mediums and surfaces to work on and we’ll see you there!!
SUNDAY, APRIL 23RD
1-4PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
SUGGESTED TICKET PRICE $5
RSVP: EVENTBRITE
CURATED BY @bighaircamellights.
MODEL TBA.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• It’s Philly Vegan Restaurant Week! Tutu Mary’s has some very special menu items for us, changing all week long! Come back multiple times so you can eat the whole menu!
• Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom! Sundays, All Day Long.
• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Find out more »Very Magazine Vol. 6 Release Party
Join us for the Vol. 6 Release Party for VERY MAGAZINE, a modern day erotic magazine created by Stevie Laney!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
🔗: MORE INFO
ARTISTS:
@thrifty___stuff
@sam.sankey
@medusa.raptor.studio
@visionarywomantarot
@xbelleandwhistle
@syntheticshadows
@jaymcquirns
@elizabethkrosss
@displacedsnail
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• It’s Philly Vegan Restaurant Week! Tutu Mary’s has some very special menu items for us, changing all week long! Come back multiple times so you can eat the whole menu!
• Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Wednesdays, 4-11pm.
• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Find out more »Sip City Mixer: Gender Variance Pop-Up Party // April 2023
A special edition Sip City Mixer centering and celebrating our Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender Non-Conforming community members! This pop up will be hosted BY and FOR the trans/nb/gnc community. Invited guests or partners also welcome. Please respect this special safe space.
A note from Sip City Mixer: We strongly prefer guests be fully vaxxed/boosted. If you are not, please wear a mask to protect others. Sit this one out if you’re feeling unwell.
THURSDAY, APRIL 27TH
7-10PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
EXTENDED HAPPY HOUR 4-10PM • ALL DRAFTS $4
RSVP: FB EVENT
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• It’s Philly Vegan Restaurant Week! Tutu Mary’s has some very special menu items for us, changing all week long! Come back multiple times so you can eat the whole menu!
• All hail Pierogi Thursday! Munch and crunch on 75¢ pierogi (vegan, obvi) plus $3 cans of Tecate every Thursday!! And don’t forget ur toppings… Thursdays, 4-11pm.
• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Find out more »May 2023
Half-Baked // A Drag and Burlesque Show
Do you like silly stupid drag and burlesque? Well saddle up diva ‘cuz this is very that!
Half-Baked is a cabaret show full of whacky performances, stunty fashion, and goofy ghouls. Leave your braincells at home, baby, you won’t need ’em tonight! Come let loose!
TUESDAY, MAY 16TH
DOORS @ 7PM + SHOW @ 8PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $15 | NOTAFLOF
RSVP: FB EVENT (COMING SOON)
FEATURING:
Pi
Jay Kay (Brooklyn, NY)
Khaki Capri
Tiffany Uma Mascara
*** Don’t be a dick! Racism, Transphobia, Sexism, Ableism, or other hate speech will get you removed ***
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Find out more »You Can’t Kill A Poet // Nine Year Anniversary!
It’s our nine-year anniversary! Come celebrate! We’re bringing you phenomenal queer and trans poets from Philadelphia to share their work and fill the room with queer experience. Come join us for this rowdy, raucous, fun event full of feelings! We’re back at Tattooed Mom! Doors at 7:30pm, reading at 8:00 pm.
This is a 21+ event, ids are checked at the door. Free to attend! Please be vaccinated, masks are welcome. Please sit this one out if you’re feeling sick. This reading is offered in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia with support from The Pennsylvania Department of Education.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17TH
DOORS @ 7:30PM + SHOW @ 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT
Featuring Readings By:
Lauren Yates is a writer, visual artist, & burlesque performer from Philadelphia by way of San Diego. Lauren has represented Philly at the National Poetry Slam and the Women of the World Poetry Slam. Her work has been featured in bedfellows, Voicemail Poems, GLITTERBRAIN, Bettering American Poetry, and more. Lauren is also a teaching artist and is currently developing a workshop that marries poetry and burlesque. Find her on Instagram @i_am_yates.
S. Brook Corfman is the author of two collections of poetry and several chapbooks, including My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2020, and Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the 2018 Autumn House Writing Riser Prize. They are also an essayist, critic, and the Translation Editor at The Offing.
Stephanie Cawley is a poet in Philadelphia and a 2023 NEA Fellow. They are the author of My Heart But Not My Heart, winner of the Slope Book Prize chosen by Solmaz Sharif, and the chapbook A Wilderness from Gazing Grain Press. Poems and other writing appear in Prolit, bedfellows, Peach Magazine, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, among other places.
Evangeline Brooks is a coffee-worker, singer, poet & actress based in South West Philadelphia. Van is an unpublished poet, whose work revolves around Black Trans ancestry, feminine poz divinity, & the richness, weight, & cost of living in a body that is both desired & discounted. She is a daughter, a sister, a lover, a muse. She stands on the shoulders of many.
Alexa Smith is a poet from D.C. doing her best in West Philly. She works in publishing and teaches creative writing at Temple, UArts, and sometimes Blue Stoop. Her work can be found on Entropy, Interim, Peach Mag, Spotify and elsewhere.
Warren C. Longmire is an uncle, writer, technologist and an educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host and co-creator of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party, and is a Board member for Blue Stoop. His work blends language play, performance and his own preoccupations with cities, masculinity, blackness and the modern world. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] was released in Nov. 2022 through BUNNY Presse.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Wednesdays, 4-11pm.
• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Find out more »You Better Roast That F’ing Duck! A Drag & Burlesque Tribute to Cooking Shows, Celebrity Chefs, & FOOD!
Is your DVR filled with every Food Network and chef competition show in existence? Is the Swedish Chef your favorite Muppet? Do”The Joy of Cooking” and “The French Chef” hold a prominent place on the shelf of your personal library? Was your favorite vine, “Two shots of vodka?” Do you prefer food porn to well…porn porn? If the answer to any of these questions is, “yes” than boy-howdy do we have a show for you!
TUESDAY, MAY 23RD
DOORS @ 7PM + SHOW @ 8PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $15-20 | VIP SEATING $25 (ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE)
>> NOTAFLOF <<
RSVP: FB EVENT | EVENTBRITE
Balena Canto returns to Tattooed Mom for her next themed drag and burlesque extravaganza: You Better Roast That F’ing Duck! A Drag & Burlesque Tribute to Cooking Shows, Celebrity Chefs, & FOOD! It’s going to be a TASTY experience bursting with FLAVOR!
In addition to the show, we’ll play a themed game, where you chance to win a Tattooed Mom prize pack (includes a $30 Tmoms gift card, t shirt, and more)!
STARRING:
Avery Goodname
Balena Canto (Host)
Dizzy Marquee
Gemini Mxr
JonBenét TrélurTrash
Mister Right
Pi
Victoria Reno
Vickie Nicotine
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Find out more »
