Queer Is Not A Label
Queer Is Not A Label is a recurring party in Paris since 2019. Founded by Kévin Blinderman (artist, member of the runspace Treize in Paris) and Paul-Alexandre Islas (artist, DJ), these noisy, aggressive and emo parties put forward DJs who place questions of identities at the heart of their musical practice.
1. The first episode of Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken is an isekai-type anime (reincarnation in another world) where the story is about a human being reincarnated as slime (the relaxing and viscous paste popular on Youtube). We find it to be the most relevant identity possible, even if the rest of the series does not develop in a transcendent way … https://www.jetanime.to/tensei-shitara-slime-datta-ken-1-vostfr/
2. Venus Liuzzo’s YouTube video
Venus Liuzzo’s YouTube video ‘WHY DO I WORK AS A PROSTITUTE’, which explains with a wry sense of humour her condition as a trans-woman sex worker in Paris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av2QlharaP8&feature=y outu.be&fbclid=IwAR0hfXEp_YhIx-GNuaW09VGg2HGAVuItVMW1-FhDZOQoAFMJJSR52N4p_Gk
3. Three essential Soundcloud mixes this year.
TORMENTA a crew of DJs and queer evenings from São Paulo (FACT mix 71); Taiwanese producer Stella Chung aka Scintii based in Shanghai with a pan-Asian mix that represents the best of local scenes (Dummy Mix 543 // Scintii) and finally Absent Fathers, a Hungarian artist based in Vienna that we invited for the second edition of Queer is Not a Label (ALL IS MORE BEAUTIFUL DOWNWARDS Mix)
https://soundcloud.com/factmag/fact-mix-711-tormentajune-19 https://soundcloud.com/dummymag/dummy-mix-534-scintii :https://soundcloud.com/ absenceofrave/downwards