Join NeuroBloom and Solar Intentions on Wednesday, June 24 from 6–8 PM for a Pride Month and Juneteenth screening of Paris Is Burning, followed by a curated community discussion led by Zeb Hurst, artist, organizer, and theologian.
This gathering brings together a queer-affirming orgs to honor the Black and Brown queer communities whose creativity, survival, and cultural innovation continue to shape how we understand identity, family, healing, and freedom.
Paris Is Burning is a landmark documentary centering Black and Brown queer and trans ballroom communities in 1980s New York. The film offers an intimate look at ballroom culture, chosen family, gender expression, voguing, class, beauty, performance, grief, survival, and the deep human need to be seen.
Decades later, the film remains urgent.
At a time when queer and trans communities, especially Black and Brown queer and trans people, continue to face political attack, cultural erasure, violence, and isolation, Paris Is Burning reminds us that authenticity is never only individual. It is communal. It is protective. It is world-building.
Ballroom culture gave people language for who they were. It gave people family when family was unsafe. It gave people a stage when society denied them visibility. It created beauty inside scarcity, status inside exclusion, and belonging inside systems designed to reject them.
For Pride Month and Juneteenth, this film invites us to ask deeper questions about liberation. Who gets to be seen? Who gets to be safe? Who gets to define beauty, gender, family, success, and freedom? What does it mean to create a life when the world refuses to make room for you?
At NeuroBloom, we believe healing is inseparable from identity, culture, embodiment, and community. Living authentically helps liberate all of us because every person who refuses shame creates more room for others to exist.
Together, we’ll explore ballroom culture, chosen family, Black and Brown queer survival, gender expression, authenticity, and the ways queer communities continue to shape collective liberation.
Hope to see you there!
Free RSVP + Optional Community Contribution
This event is free to attend. Optional contributions are invited to directly support Zeb Hurst, our discussion facilitator, artist, and community member.
Zeb is a Black trans man bringing lived experience, creative insight, and community care to this Pride Month and Juneteenth conversation on Paris Is Burning, ballroom culture, chosen family, authenticity, and liberation.
All optional contributions will go toward compensating Zeb for their time, labor, facilitation, and cultural knowledge. Giving is not required to attend, but it is deeply appreciated as part of our commitment to valuing Black trans queer leadership and community work.
