Chai & Roses Pride Party : A Sunday Tea Dance for QTBIPOC & Allies w/ Anjali, Black Daria and Drag
Chai & Roses Pride Party
A Sunday Tea Dance for QTBIPOC & Allies
Sunday July 19th
7-11PM (21+ only)
www.etix.com/ticket/p/97072138/chai-roses-pride-partya-sunday-tea-dance-for-qtbipoc-allies-21-portland-holocene
🌹DJ's
Anjali @anjaliandthekid
Black Daria @jenetorade
🌹Drag Artists & Performers
Anna Karenema @anna.kar.enema
Chiffon Chérie @chiffon.cherie
Hibiscus Lust @hibiscuslust
Willy Wankme @willy_wankme_
MC Princess Mercury @princessmercurydrag
🌹Pop Ups
ChaiWallahPdx @chaiwallah_pdx
Flowers for Palestine @flowers4palestinepdx
Jungle Candy Henna @jungl3grl
💕 Co-hosted with Pdx Queer Asians @pdxqueerasians
This is our 3rd Pride Edition of Chai & Roses! Thank you for celebrating Queer Joy with us!!
We are hosting another Sunday evening tea dance that centers Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) folks.
We honor the QTBIPOC folks who came before us — our radical ancestors who fought to be seen, heard and free to love.
We honor the rich diversity of people within the QTBIPOC community.
We invite QTBIPOC folks of all backgrounds & identities to come party with us.
We also welcome allies.
We expect everyone to contribute to a fun and respectful party.
We will not tolerate any form of prejudice or discrimination, such as biphobia, fatphobia, or transphobia.
See you on our liberation dance floor.
🌹Since her 2000 debut as a DJ and dance floor instigator, Anjali has worked to promote the future and vintage sounds of South Asia and the Desi diaspora within the larger Global Bass movement. She moves between two styles of performance, from behind the decks as a DJ to the front of the stage as a Bhangra & Filmi dancer, all the while exploring her own identity and utilizing the dance floor as a place to build solidarity. Her work is primarily concerned with pushing forward a working class, anti caste, immigrant feminist agenda through song, imagery and dance.
🌹DJ Black Daria is a Black American + Mexican international DJ and visual artist whose sounds center global Black and Afrolatinx club culture in CDMX and beyond.
💕Bring extra $$ for tipping!
🌹Anna Karenema is your favorite comet passing over the Portland sky once again! They are so excited to see you all and to share their magic. Happy Pride, remember to tell your friends you love them, and dance your pretty hearts out!
🌹Chiffon Chérie (she/her) is nothing short of a local legend. For over 15 years, she has been a trailblazer within Portland’s queer community proving that drag isn’t just for the boys — From Rosebud 33 to Ms. Gay Pride of Portland 2015, Chiffon Cherie continues to lead with a passion for her Desi culture and love of drag artistry.
🌹Hibiscus Lust (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, mixed Puerto Rican movement artist and choreographer based out of Portland, OR. Known for their volcanic nature, Hibiscus Lust will enrapture you with swirling smoke and drown you with fire. Currently you can find Hibiscus stunning the stage with their Boriqua magic, performing pole & burlesque. You can find them on Instagram & Venmo @hibiscuslust
🌹Here to pleasure this audience with his 'Big Willy' energy. It’s the uplifter himself, producer of Community King, an all king drag show and resource fair, all king & thing show - King's Gambit and dry open-call drag show - Full Bloom coming up on August 25th at The Marie Equi Center. He was the 2023 'King Dad' titleholder and a 2025 Emerald City King’s Ball featured performer. It's everyone's favorite 'bad dad' and Portland's favorite cocklatier.
It's Willy Wankme!
🌹Princess Mercury is a genderfluid drag artist and existential jester based in Portland, OR. Their art explores identity and power through the lens of community, comedy, and curiosity. You can find them performing at Kickstand Comedy or finding new ways to bring people together through the house of resilience (@thehouseofresiliencepdx)
💕Bring extra $$ to support local pop ups!
🌹Chaiwallah PDX is a small batch desi pop-up run by Sarena. Her recipes have taken years to perfect because they taste like she remembers… created with the flavors she grew up with, away from and returned to.
🌹Alexandria Rema Saleem is a first generation Palestinian artist and cultural worker, born and raised on the traditional lands of the Chinook and many others. She works with individuals, communities, and the land to reclaim our rite to sacred spaces, through land tending, world building, dance, ritual, risk, and tenderness. The flowers are her deepest ally and main medium. She works between the land, as a regenerative flower farmer, and community as florist, event designer, and installation artist. She is currently co-stewarding the black Oregon land trust and is director of Arts and Culture with The Center for Study and Preservation of Palestine. She started the Flowers for Palestine mutual aid project in October 2023 in Portland. Flowers for Palestine is a Portland led, mutual aid project that has continuously gathered community in fundraising efforts directly supporting Palestinian Portlanders aiding their family in Gaza amidst the ongoing genocide.
🌹Jungle Candy Henna was born and raised in Portland to immigrant parents from Sri Lanka & India. Kavi started art at a young age. She majored in painting for 1 year at PSU before dropping out to pursue tattooing. In order to get the funds for “tattoo school,” Kavi worked as a line cook for 5 years before finally enrolling and graduating with her tattoo license. Kavi is now at TigerLily Tattoo and tattoos almost anything and everything with a focus on black and grey botanical and nature themes and South Asian iconology and ornamentation.
💕 PDX Queer Asians hosts monthly social events for folx who identify as any part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and as any Asian nationality or ethnicity, including Desi and SWANA folx. We hold community, belonging, and social justice at the core. We create opportunities for connection and solidarity, through happy hours, dinners, dance parties and more. We aim to uplift and support local queer and BIPOC artists, business owners and community partners.
A Sunday Tea Dance for QTBIPOC & Allies
Sunday July 19th
7-11PM (21+ only)
www.etix.com/ticket/p/97072138/chai-roses-pride-partya-sunday-tea-dance-for-qtbipoc-allies-21-portland-holocene
🌹DJ's
Anjali @anjaliandthekid
Black Daria @jenetorade
🌹Drag Artists & Performers
Anna Karenema @anna.kar.enema
Chiffon Chérie @chiffon.cherie
Hibiscus Lust @hibiscuslust
Willy Wankme @willy_wankme_
MC Princess Mercury @princessmercurydrag
🌹Pop Ups
ChaiWallahPdx @chaiwallah_pdx
Flowers for Palestine @flowers4palestinepdx
Jungle Candy Henna @jungl3grl
💕 Co-hosted with Pdx Queer Asians @pdxqueerasians
This is our 3rd Pride Edition of Chai & Roses! Thank you for celebrating Queer Joy with us!!
We are hosting another Sunday evening tea dance that centers Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) folks.
We honor the QTBIPOC folks who came before us — our radical ancestors who fought to be seen, heard and free to love.
We honor the rich diversity of people within the QTBIPOC community.
We invite QTBIPOC folks of all backgrounds & identities to come party with us.
We also welcome allies.
We expect everyone to contribute to a fun and respectful party.
We will not tolerate any form of prejudice or discrimination, such as biphobia, fatphobia, or transphobia.
See you on our liberation dance floor.
🌹Since her 2000 debut as a DJ and dance floor instigator, Anjali has worked to promote the future and vintage sounds of South Asia and the Desi diaspora within the larger Global Bass movement. She moves between two styles of performance, from behind the decks as a DJ to the front of the stage as a Bhangra & Filmi dancer, all the while exploring her own identity and utilizing the dance floor as a place to build solidarity. Her work is primarily concerned with pushing forward a working class, anti caste, immigrant feminist agenda through song, imagery and dance.
🌹DJ Black Daria is a Black American + Mexican international DJ and visual artist whose sounds center global Black and Afrolatinx club culture in CDMX and beyond.
💕Bring extra $$ for tipping!
🌹Anna Karenema is your favorite comet passing over the Portland sky once again! They are so excited to see you all and to share their magic. Happy Pride, remember to tell your friends you love them, and dance your pretty hearts out!
🌹Chiffon Chérie (she/her) is nothing short of a local legend. For over 15 years, she has been a trailblazer within Portland’s queer community proving that drag isn’t just for the boys — From Rosebud 33 to Ms. Gay Pride of Portland 2015, Chiffon Cherie continues to lead with a passion for her Desi culture and love of drag artistry.
🌹Hibiscus Lust (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, mixed Puerto Rican movement artist and choreographer based out of Portland, OR. Known for their volcanic nature, Hibiscus Lust will enrapture you with swirling smoke and drown you with fire. Currently you can find Hibiscus stunning the stage with their Boriqua magic, performing pole & burlesque. You can find them on Instagram & Venmo @hibiscuslust
🌹Here to pleasure this audience with his 'Big Willy' energy. It’s the uplifter himself, producer of Community King, an all king drag show and resource fair, all king & thing show - King's Gambit and dry open-call drag show - Full Bloom coming up on August 25th at The Marie Equi Center. He was the 2023 'King Dad' titleholder and a 2025 Emerald City King’s Ball featured performer. It's everyone's favorite 'bad dad' and Portland's favorite cocklatier.
It's Willy Wankme!
🌹Princess Mercury is a genderfluid drag artist and existential jester based in Portland, OR. Their art explores identity and power through the lens of community, comedy, and curiosity. You can find them performing at Kickstand Comedy or finding new ways to bring people together through the house of resilience (@thehouseofresiliencepdx)
💕Bring extra $$ to support local pop ups!
🌹Chaiwallah PDX is a small batch desi pop-up run by Sarena. Her recipes have taken years to perfect because they taste like she remembers… created with the flavors she grew up with, away from and returned to.
🌹Alexandria Rema Saleem is a first generation Palestinian artist and cultural worker, born and raised on the traditional lands of the Chinook and many others. She works with individuals, communities, and the land to reclaim our rite to sacred spaces, through land tending, world building, dance, ritual, risk, and tenderness. The flowers are her deepest ally and main medium. She works between the land, as a regenerative flower farmer, and community as florist, event designer, and installation artist. She is currently co-stewarding the black Oregon land trust and is director of Arts and Culture with The Center for Study and Preservation of Palestine. She started the Flowers for Palestine mutual aid project in October 2023 in Portland. Flowers for Palestine is a Portland led, mutual aid project that has continuously gathered community in fundraising efforts directly supporting Palestinian Portlanders aiding their family in Gaza amidst the ongoing genocide.
🌹Jungle Candy Henna was born and raised in Portland to immigrant parents from Sri Lanka & India. Kavi started art at a young age. She majored in painting for 1 year at PSU before dropping out to pursue tattooing. In order to get the funds for “tattoo school,” Kavi worked as a line cook for 5 years before finally enrolling and graduating with her tattoo license. Kavi is now at TigerLily Tattoo and tattoos almost anything and everything with a focus on black and grey botanical and nature themes and South Asian iconology and ornamentation.
💕 PDX Queer Asians hosts monthly social events for folx who identify as any part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and as any Asian nationality or ethnicity, including Desi and SWANA folx. We hold community, belonging, and social justice at the core. We create opportunities for connection and solidarity, through happy hours, dinners, dance parties and more. We aim to uplift and support local queer and BIPOC artists, business owners and community partners.
Where is it happening?
Holocene Portland, Snap 90's Dance Party, 1001 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR 97214, United States
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