Lilac 007 and Koni 007 in cooperation with Anybody Walking, Trafó House and Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival would like to invite you to the TDoR kiki ball.‼️Ballroom is a culture created by and for transfem BIPoC (black, indigenous & people of color) as a space of resistance against the societal oppression of racism, colorism, misogynoir, queerphobia and transphobia that they were (and still to this day are) facing with.
Stepping into a ball, you agree to respect the foundation of the culture, that's inherently anti-colonial and anti-racist and BIPoC centered‼️
Every year on or around the 20th November, on the Transgender Day of Remembrance we honor the people, whose lives were taken away as the result of transphobia. This day was founded to draw attention to the continued violence directed towards transgender people. It was founded in 1999 by three transgender women: Gwendolyn Ann Smith, Nancy Nangeroni and Jahaira DeAlto.
On the 22nd November, we would like to invite you to remember and celebrate the lives of trans people we lost in the past decades, whether it was due to transphobia or natural causes.
JUDGES
Overall Mother Vivi Fenty Savage 🇫🇷
European Mother Keisha Coperni 🇫🇷
Astro Royalty 🇫🇷
MC
German Mami Magia Marciano 🇩🇪
DJ TBA
HOSTS
Lilac 007 and Koni 007
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Vogue Fem workshop with European Mother Keisha Coperni on the 22nd November
European Runway workshop with Overall Mother Vivi Fenty Savage and Old Way workshop with Astro Royalty on the 23rd November.
More infos & registration are coming soon!
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CATEGORIES
Face 🏆🏆🏆 (FF, MF, Androgynous)
Realness 🏆🏆🏆🏆 (FQ €100 sponsored by Kim 007, Drags, TM, BQ)
Beginners Runway 🏆
European runway 🏆
All American Runway 🏆
Best make up 🏆
Fashion Killa 🏆
Nails Affair 🏆
Black Hair Affair 🏆
Lipsync 🏆
Hands Performance vs Arms Control 🏆
Beginners performance 🏆
Excalibur 🏆
Classic Performance 🏆
Tag Team Performance 🏆
Body 🏆🏆 (Fit/Muscular, Luscious/Big and Beautiful)
Sex Siren 🏆🏆 (FF, MF)
REGISTRATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
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We are upload the categories and the themes continously, finishing by the 14th October. Thank you for your patience!
FACE🏆🏆🏆 (FF, MF, Androgynous)
OCTAVIA ST LAURENT
When we talk about the category Face, we cannot not mention Octavia St Laurent, who started to walk balls in 1982 and became one of the most determinant person in her category, leaving everyone speechless with her beauty. While actively participating in ballroom, she slowly started to build her modelling career. At a time where revealing one’s birth identity meant the end of the career for transgender models, Octavia boldly embraced her identity and lead the path for other transgender models and for the future generation. Once she said in an interview: “I love who and what I am, and I wouldn’t be anything else”.
She came to public attention after featuring the 1990 documenaty, Paris is Burning. For your category, be inspired by her iconic photo where she’s posing in the red and purple velvet set, wearing a glamorous dress with crystals.
FF REALNESS (FQ, DRAGS) 🏆🏆
with 100€ CASH PRIZE for FQ realness sponsored by Kim 007
VENUS XTRAVAGANZA
"Touch this skin, darling, touch this skin honey, touch all of this skin! Okay? You just can't take it!" One of Ballroom's, and the documentary Paris is burning's most known girl, Venus was the perfect example of many trans girls, wanting peace, acceptance, love and stability. Though life took a tragic turn for her, her aspirations are still living with us and her ambitions are paving way for many of the younger generations. For your outfit, bring a look that you'd wear with her, walking down the piers in New York City, after a ball, unclockable, lady-like, oozing the woman that you already are.
MF REALNESS (TM, BQ) 🏆🏆
BRANDON TEENA
Brandon Teena (1972-1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later murdered by two of his “friends” after they discovered his biological sex. Teena and his story have been at the center of academic and public debates concerned gender and sexuality rights. His story is the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don’t Cry. For your category, bring it in a striped or flannel shirt, remembering him and his legacy.
BEGINNERS RUNWAY 🏆
PINK TRIANGLE
During World War II many minority groups were taken into Nazi concentration camps by the Gestapo, but it's not as widely talked about that after the camps were shot down and foreign troops were freeing the captives, many people did not get the chance of freedom. Those wearing the pink triangle, whom were kept for deviant sexual activities that homosexuality was seen as, or identifying as transgender women, were taken into prison as it was still against the law, even after the Nazi dictatorship to be in same-sex intimate activities or to cross-dress. During the 70s, the LGBTQ+ and gay rights movements reappropriated the sign as a symbol of pride and resistance, and it's still used today to show the opposition against anti LGBTQ+ oppression. During the 70s, the LGBTQ+ and gay rights movements reappropriated the sign as a symbol of pride and resistance, and it's still used today to show the opposition against anti LGBTQ+ oppression. For your outfit, incorporate the pink triangle into your look that shows what resistance and pride means to you.
EUROPEAN RUNWAY 🏆
ALL AMERICAN RUNWAY 🏆
GRIEF & REMEMBRANCE
Way too many sisters, brothers and siblings we have lost in our lives and in our community, and while their lives and legacies worth to be celebrated, grief naturally takes part to process the loss. For your outfit, get inspired by mourning fashion and bring the name of a trans person who had a big impact on you, but no longer with us. Tonight you're walking in the name of them to remember their names and their lives.
BEST MAKE UP 🏆
CANDLES
In many cultures candles represent the remembrance of a lost loved one. The fire we lit symbolizes the memories that'll never be lost and the love that never fades even as time passes and the one we once had is no longer physically with us. For your make up, incorporate a candle as the symbol of remembrance. It can be the waxy texture, or the light it brings during dark times. NOTE: Real fire cannot be used on the ball! Be creative in a safe way.
FASHION KILLA 🏆
FLOWERS OF MARSHA WITH MANDATORY S.T.A.R PIECE ⭐️
Marsha P. Johnson is a prominent figure when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights as she was the one with Sylvia Rivera, two BIPoC trans women who were there from the start of the Stonewall riots and the pride marches following it. They founded the organization S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) to advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. On most pictures that she was captured, she was wearing headpieces of flowers which is widely used as a symbol of hers. Use the flower symbol in your outfit that resonates the energies of Marsha. A star is mandatory to be involved with the outfit, a detail that symbolizes the organization of Sylvia and Marsha.
NAILS AFFAIR 🏆
METAMORPHOSIS
It's a common allegory for the trans experience to use the butterflies' metamorphosis from caterpillar into the advanced butterfly itself, making a parallel between the beautiful fully advanced version of us and the freely flying, colorful butterfly.
For your nails, use anything in nature that's also going through a huge metamorphosis, can be a butterfly, or any other animal, or even a natural phenomena, and picture it in breathtaking artpiece, telling the visionary story through your nails.
BLACK HAIR AFFAIR 🏆
TBA
LIPSYNC🏆
TBA
HANDS PERFORMANCE VS ARMS CONTROL 🏆
HANDS PERFORMANCE
ANGIE XTRAVAGANZA
She believed in me when I didn’t believe in me. We all felt that way. She believed in us." (Hector Xtravaganza)
Angie Xtravaganza wasn't only the founding mother of the House of Xtravaganza, the first house that was centering Latino drag performers and queer people in Ballroom, but she was one of the founding mothers of Ballroom itself.
She was said to be a kind, loving but tough mother, who gave love, family, care, guidance and shelter to those young queer children whom were disowned and rejected by their biological families.
She was there for her kids, even during her last days. She was a victim of the AIDS epidemic, dying at the young age of only 28.
For your outfit it's mandatory to have a long glove with a bow/bows on it.
ARMS CONTROL
MARLON XTRAVAGANZA
Marlon Xtravaganza was a Hungarian roma trans woman, who joined ballroom in the 80s in New York. Her life was full of unexpected turns and vivid memories. She was born into a travelling circus family where she learned many faces of showbusiness, while also learning acrobatics and dancing, which gave her advantages in ballroom.
After coming back to Hungary, in the 90s, early 00s she became a prominent figure of the gay nightlife in Budapest, being the scandalous and unique person that many adored.
She passed away in 2016, right before Ballroom started in Hungary, so sadly we never had a chance to learn from her.
For your outfit, you need a mandatory leopard print glove as a remembrance of her.
BEGINNERS PERFORMANCE🏆
YOLANDA JOURDAN
The IT girl of the 90s, an icon from the black era of Ballroom, she was a force when it comes to Fem Queen performance. Her performance was playful and creative, and she wasn't stepping back from a heated battle either. She was a cheered member anytime she stepped on the floor. One of her defining moments came at the 1997 Mizrahi Ball, where the femme queen performance category was themed as “slow and sexy like Sinia” or “daring and dramatic like Ashley.” This event was seen by many as the moment she became “Yolanda,” stepping fully into her own style and legacy. During the 00s, her mental health was declining and she was struggling with personal problems, feeling left alone, which lead to losing her at 2019.
To honor her, bring an outfit inspired by her look from the 1997 Mizrahi Ball.
EXCALIBUR 🏆 (voguing with a weapon):
PROTECTOR
Anti trans legislations, hate crimes and worsening mental health is on the rise when it comes to the trans community in most parts of the world. Trans people, especially trans fems are the topic of discussion when it comes to alienation and dehumanization, especially black and brown trans women. The political tendencies of blaming the trans community is increasing and getting more and more out of hand at more parts around the world, while there's many places where the trans rights movements couldn't have a chance to step foot. We need protection!
For your outfit, imagine yourself as the protector of the community. It's free for your interpretation, but make the statement clear and obvious who you are and what are you standing for.
NOTE: Your excalibur, the weapon cannot be sharp, or able to be used as a real harm causing weapon! Safety first!
CLASSIC PERFORMANCE 🏆
DAESJA LAPERLA
Daesja was one of the blueprints for Vogue fem, she was one of the IT girls when it comes to Fem Queen performance.
Her style was and still is inspiring many people coming behind her, with her sharp lines, classic elegance, unique and creative style.
She wasn't only known for performance, but she was also the name when it came to hands performance.
The iconic clip from the 2004 Rainbow House Wars for hands performance with a prop became well known in Ballroom where she created a breathtaking moment with her prop.
Inspired by that night, bring your classic performance in a white two piece and show the judges the classic way of voguing.
TAG TEAM PERFORMANCE 🏆
SISTERHOOD
Ballroom is built by houses, a chosen family that sticks together, but we can find an even stronger bond: sisterhood, that hold the girls together. The shared experiences, the common struggles, the understanding that no Butch Queen can give (no shade to them though), only the trans sisters.
The knowledge, the empathy, the love, the care.
And thanks to technology, we can have the memories of these sisterhoods kept on pictures.
Team up with anyone representing any voguing styles and bring an outfit inspired by one of these pictures, keeping the memories of these sisterhoods alive.
BODY 🏆🏆 (Fit/Muscular, Luscious/Big and Beautiful)
FIT/MUSCULAR
CARMEN XTRAVAGNZA
A Ballroom Hall of Famer, an Icon, one of the "impossible beauties". Carmen's beauty was undeniable. She was a model, an actress and a singer. She started off as a Saint Laurent, then she became an Xtravaganza where after Angie's death she became the mother of the house. She was walking face, runway, realness, and she was collecting success in and outside of Ballroom.
But her life wasn't just fame and success. At the age of 15, Carmen ran away from home in Washington, D.C. to officially begin her transition process. During that two-year period, Carmen said she was “robbed, mugged, raped and incarcerated. Life was hard because I was on my own and had to hustle to survive”
After leaving home, she found ballroom, where she could become part of a family and a community.
She was fighting for trans rights and trans visibility, having the goal to make it easier for the younger generation of trans people to get access to medical help and acceptance in society. She was battling cancer for years, and we lost her in August of 2023.
Bring it in a seashell outfit for the category inspired by the iconic photo of her.
LUSCIOUS/BIG & BEAUTIFUL
TBA
SEX SIREN 🏆🏆 (FF, MF)
SEX WORKERS
As we all know, sex siren as a category was created by Jack Mizrahi Gorgeous Gucci in the 90s, to make ballroom more inclusive, and give a space for the sex workers who were and are taking up a great part of people in ballroom. A reason for this is also that back in the days the opportunities were very limited when it came to jobs and having an income for trans women, especially for black and brown trans femmes, often leading to choosing capitalizing off of their bodies. In many cases, the victims of transphobia-lead murders are trans sex workers, because insecurity of the male partners commonly leads to violence.
For this category we want you to pay homage to trans sex workers who are no longer with a mandatory sex work supportive statement.
Event Venue
Trafó House, Liliom utca 41, Budapest 1094, Magyarország, Budapest, Hungary
Tickets
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