The Body is a Home: a Blk Pleasure Social Club

Schedule

Sat Aug 23 2025 at 05:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

National Public Housing Museum | Chicago, IL

Join us for #LetUsBreathe's Annual Fundraiser: Featuring Burlesque, Kink Workshops, and Celebration.
About this Event

DJ - DELICIOUS BITES - COCKTAILS - IMPACT PLAY - BODY PAINTING - MASSAGE - PLEASURE-CENTERED PERFORMANCE & FELLOWSHIP - SILENT AUCTION

Hosted by E'mon Lauren! | Sounds by DJ Sadie Woods | Impact Play with Madame Trixie Melonbottom | Massage by Toni Asante Lightfoot | Body Painting with Jai Kalondra & Kamera | ...& so much more!!!!

5:30pm VIP Cocktail Hour includes an intimate impact play demonstration with Trixie! Curious about flogging, spanking, paddling, rope play? Learn more about these kinks and how to find your power, surrender, and release in rewriting our relationship to a range of sensations. Workshop followed by first-come first-serve scenes with femdom Madame Trixie Melonbottom!

Madame Trixie Melonbottom practices transformational kink with sacred intimacy techniques, sensory and impact play. As an artist and motivational speaker with experience in life coaching, Trixie assists people to their greatest desires through exploring the possibilities of "Yes," self-expression, healing, and freedom.

She works with individuals and groups to amplify their authentic selves. She is a sacred intimacy coach, artist, reiki master teacher, womb care practitioner, sacred sound healer, Asian body worker, priestess , & doula. Trixie's work is here for all embodiments to heal, grow, explore desire & connect with self, partners, and tribe.

6pm General Admission includes pleasure-centered performances, body painting presentation, first-come first-serve chair massages & assisted stretching to get the kinks without pain--unless that's your thing!-- silent auction, and music by DJ Sadie Woods! Enjoy access to the beautiful National Public Housing Museum, where our lives are celebrated across several multidisciplinary exhibitions.

Silent Auction open now! Start your bidding early on these

Parking available in the adjacent lot -- as well as ample street parking.

Your ticket purchase or donation supports the operations of the #LetUsBreathe Collective and our Breathing Room Space! The #LetUsBreathe Collective is an alliance of artists and activists organizing through a creative lens to imagine a world without prisons and police. The Collective operates the Breathing Room space, a Black-led liberation headquarters for arts, organizing, and healing on Chicago's South Side. Here we create access to arts-based political education, free laundry, nourishing meals and produce, collective grief practices, various healing modalities, and JOY! We are what we need.


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Hosted by E'mon Lauren!


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Sounds by DJ Sadie Rock!!


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Impact Play with Trixie!!!


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Body Painting by Jai Kalondra!!!


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Chair Massage & assisted stretching to get the kinks without pain--unless that's your thing!-- with Toni Asante Lightfoot!!


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Where is it happening?

National Public Housing Museum, 919 South Ada Street, Chicago, United States
Tickets

USD 20.00 to USD 1000.00

The #LetUsBreathe Collective

Host or Publisher The #LetUsBreathe Collective

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