Showing Up: An Ode to Black Mutual Aid, Parties, and Pleasure

About Honey Pot Performance

Honey Pot Performance is a creative collaborative chronicling Afro-feminist and Black diasporic subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life. Honey Pot Performance enlists modes of creative expressivity to examine the nuances of human relationships including the ways we negotiate identity, belonging and difference in our lives and cultural memberships. For more on Honey Pot Performance– visit honeypotperformance.org.

About Chicago Black Social Culture Map–A Honey Pot Performance Initiative

A collaboration between Honey Pot Performance, the Modern Dance Music Research and Archiving Foundation, Actively Archiving, and a team of local cultural historians and cultural producers, the Chicago Black Social Cultural Map exists to preserve Chicago's black social cultural lineage - past, present, and future - through an experience that is both fun and informative.

The Chicago Black Social Culture Map (CBSCM) archive is designed by Honey Pot Performance (HPP) to reach a wide demographic, from the casually curious to academic experts. The archive documents the lived experiences of Black Chicagoans from the Great Migration through the rise of House music, giving this chronically under-documented constituency an opportunity to see their stories and histories represented as written record and archive. The act of creating and sharing the CBSCM archive not only serves to insert this important segment of American history into the official canon, but also engages those whom the archive represents, inviting them to actively help to build and shape this historical record, and increasing their agency from passive audience into participant and history-maker.