The Take-Off

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Pickles

えっとねーthrough the curiosity-and-covet-induced lenses he wears as a perfervid and perverted artist and bartender, pickles (he/him) attempts to vulnerably divulge the perceptions and desires he has navigating the complexities and nuance of gay + q***r nightlife/community. almost always with a pen, notebook, drink and/or smoke in hand, plus headphones on max volume, pickles captures what he sees in the bar scenes q***rs create as well as the other spaces in which q***rs show their many angles of beauty, ugly, and everything in between. there is strong desire for both his rational and irrational feelings of misunderstanding to be both expressed n maybe alleviated in this outlet~ 
╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ -pickles

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Join us for our upcoming showcase on April 11th (5–8 PM) The Stud Collective !!!

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Join us for our upcoming showcase on April 11th (5–8 PM) The Stud Collective !!!

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

MIRAAJ

Miraaj is a San Francisco based singer songwriter who makes electronic pop music infusing EDM beats with South Asian sonic elements and Hindi phrasing into his tunes. He believes coming together over sharing of any art form is a kind of joyful resistance in solidarity by the community that decide to show up.

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Join us for our upcoming showcase on April 11th (5–8 PM) The Stud Collective !!!

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Lady Adjacent
(she/they, when in drag) A San Francisco-based drag performer.  Her experience as a trans and intersex person informs their performance of gender.  Lady Adjacent is not a drag king or queen, but rather a drag jester; gender is just a social construct, so why don’t we play around a bit?!
     In spite of their often playful performance persona, Lady Adjacent also sees drag as a vessel for political statement and change.  So with this showcase performance, the Lady hopes that you find her dazzling, bright and spectacular, but also that you leave thinking of new perspectives or inspired toward some revolutionary action—however great or small!
     Lady Adjacent’s daytime persona, Cal (they/them) is currently enrolled in a full-time program for Massage+Bodywork with the dreams of opening their own private practice, focusing on trans and intersectionally marginalized bodies; please tip Lady Adjacent directly with cash or on Venmo:   
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Join us for our upcoming showcase on April 11th (5–8 PM) The Stud Collective !!!

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Ashleigh Castro

New York born, California based Ashleigh Castro is a Latinx q***r photographer specializing in portrait, performance, family, street and agricultural photography. She works in film and digital mediums and received a BA in Fine Art Photography with a minor in Journalism from San Francisco State University. Ashleigh’s dedication to the darkroom and printmaking as well as a tenure in a photolab shows skill and talent that many in modern photography have forgotten. Ashleigh’s photographs transcend time through the use of film and vintage technique.

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Join us for our upcoming showcase on April 11th (5–8 PM) The Stud Collective !!!

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