You Can’t Kill a Poet: Autumnal Equinox Edition

You Can’t Kill a Poet is back from summer hiatus to bring you a line-up of totally badass queer and trans poets. Let’s celebrate being back in the swing of things & experience another evening of queer joy and authentic writing together at TMOMs!

Doors 7:30pm // Reading 8pm
Free & 21+

Madelynn Nieves
Tie
amber auslander
Nora Hikari Shao
June Gehringer
K. Johnson
Boston Gordon

Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ vegan potato & onion pierogi from noon-10pm
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

Philly Queer Bazaar: August 2019

The extraordinary Philly Queer Bazaar is returning to the 2nd floor of TMOMs with several other local queer business owners! Come hang out, shop, support, show your beautiful faces, meet new people, and catch up with old friends!

Laurel Tree Bindery
// Instagram // Facebook // Website //

Alottadentata
// Instagram // Facebook //

Hearts & Bruises
// Instagram //

Molly Bee Studio
// Instagram //

Bearded Noise
// Instagram // Facebook //

Shell Homemade
// Instagram //

Jewelry Mama
// Facebook //

E’s Tess and More
// Instagram //

Eunoamia Kaze
// Instagram //

Conjurings Art
// Instagram // Facebook //

Grrl Blk
// Instagram //

Tiny Neenja
// Instagram // Facebook //

A.G. Carol Illustrations
// Instagram //

Happy Fish
// Website //

W3AVING W3BS, Cause Reign
// Website //

Enjoy this event with TMOM’s full food & drink menu!

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

FUSION: August 2019!

FUSION is back! Samantha Genesis is once again bringing you Philly’s wildest charity variety show for queer empowerment. FUSION features some of the best in Philly’s underground drag, burlesque, live vocals, and performance art!

FREE w/ SUGGESTED DONATION // 21+ // UPSTAIRS
100% of door proceeds benefit Morris Home!

Hosted & curated by: Samantha Genesis

Featuring:
Mercury
Icon Ebony Fierce
Pi
Fran Zea
Yari
Sir.Donyx
D.Nile
Sven Inches
Khaki Capri
Thurston Trapp
Mz. Peaches

DJ: Mercury
Runway Host: Icon Ebony Fierce
Door: The House of Otherly Love
Photographer: Sa’Mantha Sayten

For the past two years, Fusion has aimed to provide a space for queer people in Philly to relax and feel free to drink, eat, and enjoy performances you won’t see anywhere else! Think outside of the gayborhood & join us at Mom’s for Fusion!

Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate a special Taco of the Month,
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

SlayHer: Philly’s Only All Metal Drag Show, June 2019

They’re back!

SLAYHER returns and the whiplash will cave in your skull! Philadelphia’s most cutthroat countesses are wreaking calamity on Tattooed Mom’s once again! Prepare to be dragged to HELL! The deadliest sin is PRIDE and do we have an entire mastodon ribcage full of it! Celebrate your glory and merciless reign with the ONLY heavy metal drag show in the city!

Doors 8pm // Show 9pm
Arrive on time because this event fills up fast!
$5-$15 Suggested Donation
21+

Featuring, the usual undertakers.
PLEXIE GLASS
MERCURY
LORNA DOOM
& ONYX ONDYX

Hosted by
STEPDAD

With spine snapping SLAYHER special guests:
Thunderdome Victor: DAHLIA DAHMER
Miss Tabu & Crown Queen of C*NT: ZEPHYRA RIVERS
High Velocity Execution ASSassin and Skin Stripper Supreme: FARRAH THORNE

With Special Prize Packages & HEAVY METAL GUTTERAL SCREAM SHOWDOWN.
& Heavy Metal music curated by the Slayher cast!

GRAPHIC by RON BINARY

Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ vegan potato & onion pierogi from noon-10pm
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

Now Booking Summer & Fall 2019 Events!

‘Tis the season of shorts (and jorts), beer koozies, & long summer nights at Tattooed Mom!

We’ve got art shows! Drag performances! Pop-up shops! Readings! Workshops! Sticker Swaps! Live podcasts! Comedy revues! Fundraisers! And we also want YOU!

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Do you have an event that’s looking for a home? Are you itching to create something new? Do you want to show off your weird, wonderful, unique ideas? Are you working with creatives and building artistic communities? Do you want to host a fun & fantastic event at Tattooed Mom?!

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Our calendar is now open for 2019 summer & fall events, and we’re looking to work with artists, creators, writers, thespians, filmmakers, performers, activists, and other folks from the vast artistic unknown! Our goal is to foster & produce events that bring artists closer to the local community, while also providing a space for uninhibited expression & creativity!

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Send us an email at [email protected]! Tell us all about your marvelous, stunning & super fun event ideas! We can’t wait to hear from you!

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Art by darkmeal for TMoms @ 22.

 

Note: Unfortunately we cannot accommodate live music or DJs of any kind.

2019 Philly Dyke Ride & Crafting Happy Hour

Join us for the 2019 edition of the Dyke Ride! We welcome fellow dykes, queers, and friends to join us on Sunday May 26th for a group bicycle ride through the neighborhoods of Philadelphia. After the ride, all are welcome to stop by TMOMs for a FREE crafting happy hour with Philly Dyke March organizers, featuring arts & crafts fun and happy hour specials! Join us in our awesome-poster-making from 2-6pm!

This year’s Dyke March is scheduled for Saturday June 8th, and we invite you to come learn more about riding with Dykes on Bikes and pick up an awesome 2019 PDM shirt!

Accessibility info:
Bikes and riders of all types welcome. Bike parking is available in front of Tattooed Mom. Bring a lock if you plan to stay after the ride. There is a 3-inch step up to french doors at the entrance of TMOMs, as well as a step up in the middle of the bar heading back to the bathrooms. The after ride event will take place upstairs and is not wheelchair accessible.

Enjoy this event with half price drafts from 5-7pm and 10-11pm,
half price tater tots from 7pm ’til close,
& FREE Sunday Arts & Crafts all night long!

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

Philly Queer Bazaar: May 2019

The extraordinary Philly Queer Bazaar is returning to the 2nd floor of TMOMs with several other local queer business owners! Come hang out, shop, support, show your beautiful faces, meet new people, and catch up with old friends!

FREE // UPSTAIRS // 21+

CYBRWRM
// Instagram //

Hearts & Bruises
// Instagram //

Bee Daddy & Sons
// Instagram //

Naturally Queer
// Instagram //

Shell Home
// Instagram //

A G Carol Illustrations
// Instagram //

Nerdy Keppie
// Instagram // Facebook //

Where the Wild Things Yarn
// Facebook //

Bearded Noise
// Instagram // Facebook //

Molly Bee Studio
// Instagram // Twitter // Tumblr // Facebook // Pinterest //

Author Connor Peterson
// Instagram //

Laurel Tree Bindery
// Instagram //

Christine M Creations
// Instagram //

Jewelry Mama Leea
// Instagram // Facebook //

Enjoy this event with TMOM’s full food & drink menu!

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

Turn Up the Transmission: 2 YRS

Come celebrate 2 years of Trans/Non-Binary Performance Art at Tattooed Mom & be entertained at Turn Up the Trans*mission on Thursday, May 23rd!

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Turn Up the Transmission is a Transgender and/or Non-Binary Live Variety Performance Artist Showcase which features (but is not limited to) : comedy, dance, drag, live-performance, poetry, burlesque, performance art, spoken word, video art and more.

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The Cast:
Beary Tyler Moore
Chief Peach
DJ Delish
Emily Post-Apocalypse
Apple Teeny
Mercury
Monty Caldo
Wyatt Flynn

The Crew:
DJ: Dentana
Stage Pearl: Deej Nutz
Host: deadb0y IX
Producer: deadb0y IX and Turn Up the Transmission

Flyer By: c.dub design

Raffle Prizes:
PASSIONAL Boutique: Three $25 dollar gift cards
A signed copy of Jennifer Booker’s “The New Normal”
And More TBA!

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$5-15 suggested donation, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds!
Doors 7pm // Show 8pm
Get there early to reserve a seat, and grab some dinner from TMOMs’ kitchen (with plentiful vegan options)!
21+ w/ valid ID

Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ vegan potato & onion pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

SlayHer: Philly’s Only All Metal Drag Show, April 2019

Bellowing from the sepulchre, escaping from graves of desolation and rot, SLAYHER returns to shower you in pestilence once more! Expect to be completely incinerated by this line-up because you’re gonna be going home in an URN! This is the age of sin!

Slayher: Philly’s Only All Metal Drag Show is set to shake your sternums with the vengeance of a vitriolic gaggle of ghouls. Experience the most brutal in lip sync, gore, special effects, head banging, hardcore dancing and sideshow in the state!

Doors 8pm // Show 9pm
Arrive on time because this event fills up fast!

Hosted by the punisher of putrescence
STEPDAD
Featuring the executioners of eggs and cute sinners
LORNA DOOM
ONYX ONDYX
MERCURY
PLEXIE GLASS
and Special summonings of these sexy succubi
KITTY SKITTLEPUMP
&
SIR DONYX

Come with your biggest winged liner and spikeyest vest, and ready your vocal chords for our iconic scream contest! The winner will receive a special t-shirt and prize package from Tattooed Mom!

$5-$15 Suggested Donation
21+

Enjoy this event with our Burger Wednesday specials:
$4 Mom’s Beef Burgers & Mom’s Vegan Burgers
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys
& half off all drafts 5-7 and 10-11pm

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

Philly Queer Bazaar: March 2019

The extraordinary Philly Queer Bazaar is returning to the 2nd floor of TMOMs with several other local queer business owners! Come hang out, shop, support, show your beautiful faces, meet new people, and catch up with old friends!

Melissa Stansell with Hempworx
// Website //

Bee Daddy
// Instagram //

Naturally Queer
// Instagram //

cybrwrm
// Etsy // Instagram //

Laurel Tree Bindery
// Website // Instagram //  Twitter // Facebook //

Author Peter Dawes/P. W. Davies
// Website // Twitter // Facebook //

Hearts & Bruises
// Etsy //

KHALEELARTT
// Etsy //

Bearded Noise
// Facebook //

Tiny Neenja
// Website // Instagram // Twitter // Facebook //

Melmos Dog Treats
// Website // Instagram //

Bomani Apparel
// Instagram // Facebook //

Apply here to be placed on the mailing list for upcoming events!

Brunch available during this event until 4:30pm!
Hang around after this event for half priced draft 5-7pm and 10-11pm.

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!