Paris is Burning
When: June 27, 2025 at 4:00pm - 6pm
Where:
Zoom
Contact: Jessamyn ·
The votes are in! To kick off our monthly screenings, we're starting with a classic- Paris is Burning ❤️🔥. Get cozy, grab a screen, and join us for a free screening. We'll start with a short check-in round, screen the film with subtitles, and close with a round of check-out questions.
Content note for film: violence, poverty, discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, racism and the effects of HIV on the queer and trans community
This free event is open to queer and trans youth aged 16-29. RSVPs required! Can't make this event? No worries! We've got more summer events on the way 💚.
Paris Is Burning reveals the world of the “Children,” as Black gay men and women lovingly call ourselves . . . This riveting documentary examines the community’s flamboyant rituals of balls and “voguing.” The film emerges as something far beyond sensational anthropology. It is, ultimately, an up-front, humane chronicle of overcoming adversity with audacity.
That resilience of Black and Latinx queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming people—their ability to persist in self-affirmation, in the face of forces, both personal and impersonal, that are attempting to deny their very humanity—is the thematic core of Paris Is Burning, and it remains key to its enduring appeal.
The defiant joy we witness in the ball walkers at so many moments of the film, despite the AIDS pandemic, racism, homophobia, transphobia, poverty, homelessness, violence, harassment, addiction, and whatever other hardships they may have been dealing with at any given time, was infectious in 1990, when the film premiered, and remains so today.
Mycelium
Mycelium is a space for queer & trans youth 16-29 across what is colonially known as BC. We gather to center healing, pleasure, and justice in our lives as we envision and create a world liberated from HIV & Hep C stigma.
We are committed to reducing stigma related to HIV & Hep C and to building communities where we feel safe talking about the highs and lows of sex, drugs, relationships and all the things that bring us pleasure.
Land Acknowledgement
Mycelium events take place on traditional, unceded territories of various First Nations in what is colonially referred to as ‘British Columbia.’ Our team is committed to doing our work in ways that bring us closer to Indigenous Sovereignty.
Mycelium offers online and in-person programs organized by coordinators based on the traditional, unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil Waututh), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Qayqayt, Stz’uminus, Lheidli T'enneh, Dakehl Keyoh. We invite you to find out more by visiting https://www.whose.land/en/.