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Don’t miss an all-new live A Beautiful Resistance event, celebrating Pride Month and LGBTQIA+ voices of Boston from Boston Globe culture columnist, Jeneé Osterheldt!
In her own words, Boston Globe culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt created A Beautiful Resistance “to carry on the tradition of Black artists and Black journalists in reclaiming the truth of Black folk. Like Frederick Douglass taught us, there is power in representation. Too often, we are measured by our suffering. Blackness must not be defined by our brutalization. We are more than death. When we are depicted by our extremes, the truth of us is lost. We live, fully. Our joy, our dreams, our everyday stories? That's a beautiful resistance.”
Every season consists of a weekly mixtape featuring a short film, a longform story, and a Q&A. The community is invited to share their own beautiful resistance on Instagram. There is music, there is story, there is love. Joy lives here. Join them.
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Wednesday, June 7 | 7:30 pm
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Jeneé Osterheldt is a culture columnist who covers identity and social justice through the lens of culture and the arts. She centers Black lives and the lives of people of color. Sometimes this means writing about Beyoncé and Black womanhood or unpacking the importance of public art and representation. Sometimes this means taking systemic racism, sexism, and oppression to task. It always means Black lives matter. She joined the Globe in 2018. A native of Alexandria, Virginia and a graduate of Norfolk State University, Osterheldt was a 2017 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where her studies focused on the intersection of art and justice. She previously worked as a Kansas City Star culture columnist.
Hailing from Boston, MA, DJ Slick Vick is a young music visionary best known for her diverse range of musical interest and high energy DJ sets. She believes that music is a universal language that connects humanity, and she values the dance floor as a sacred space where human connection is not only found but amplified.
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OOMPA is a nationally-acclaimed, Boston-born artist and artrepreneur who was recently named one of Boston Magazine's 150 Most Influential Bostonians, Boston Music Awards Live Act of the Year, and an inductee into the prestigious Recording Academy. Following the success of her release show for her 2021 album, Unbothered, she performed on the main stage at the 2022 Boston Calling festival. She was then invited to perform at TD Gardem in 2023 for Governor Maura Healy's Inauguration, as well as the coveted halftime show for the Boston Celtics. WBUR’s the Artery describes the lyric-focused rapper as having a “natural tenderness with language” and calls her verses “funny...incisive and memorable.” She has shared the stage with renowned artists such as Marc Rebillet, 2Chainz, Phony PPL, Smino, Charli XCX, Lupe Fiasco, 24KGoldn, Tinashe, UMI, and Rico Nasty and more .
Oompa is also the founder and CEO of the collective and cultural agency, Outlaud Entertainment, which focuses largely on strengthening the arts sector by providing opportunities for artistic, cultural, and economic development.
Her latest album, UNBOTHERED was released independently in October 2021 to popular and critical acclaim and featured in a number of publications and media outlets including OkayPlayer, Consequence of Sound, Revolt TV, Apple Music’s EBRO show, GLAAD, Boston Magazine, amongst others. She has partnered with a number of brands including Bubly, Vice, Happy Valley, ESPN, XFL, Bose, and more.
Priscella Shum is a legendary streetwear designer. For over twenty years she has had a hand in everything from the Baby Phat puffer to the Sean John leathers. Over a decade of Reebok Collaborations have been Priscella's creations. Having worked on designs for Pyer Moss, Cardi B, Alicia Keys, Gigi Hadid, and Pyer Moss, she is iconic.
She has always designed with the culture in mind. The girls in the hood with Bamboo earrings, at least two pairs. The people who aren't afraid to be unapologetically themselves and hella proud.
In her next chapter, she’s leaning into the power of the pivot and daring to dream new dreams in tech and in a vision of her own. She built a career helping bring other brands and dreams to life, it’s her time now. She was a student of both FIT and Miami International University of Art & Design. Her roots are planted firmly in Miami and Brooklyn. Her life is in Boston.
