A reading for queer and trans poets.

TUESDAY, MARCH 18TH
DOORS @ 7:30PM + SHOW @ 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

Adoom Cusack was born and raised in Philly. This city with its unique and multicultural communities kept them here for over four decades. Attending CAPA High School and UArts, now closed permanently, to pursue in film and animation. Receiving a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts; BFA. After years of freelancing and networking, Adoom found another calling in mental health. Working with at-risk children in the Philadelphia region. Communicating coping skills and tools to thrive in a challenging and ever changing world. Next goal is to enroll in Grad School for a Masters in Art Therapy. Using this year to research and network with other professionals on how to get grants and other means to receive this title.

Instagram: @adoomcusack

Nico haven (they/them) is a queer, trans non-binary, autistic writer and poet. They are working to get published A EULOGY AND A CHRISTENING: Poems & Prose in Transition, their first poetry collection about their gender transition and personal growth journey, and DECADE OF UPSTREAM SWIMMING, an essay collection that traces their personal and political awakening through their 20s.

Nico is also working on A QUESTION FROM THE IMMOLATING, a poetry collection engaging in the politics of climate change, and THE FOURTH WORLD WAR, a long poem about life during the wartime of globalization and collapse.

Before moving to Philadelphia in August 2024, Nico was volunteer Program Director for the Harrisburg Writers Group, leading weekly workshops and craft conversations in both poetry and prose.

Instagram: @nico_haven

Gray Agpalo is a writer whose work has appeared in Apogee, baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, TLDTD: a biannual journal for Filipino poets and poetry, and elsewhere. Their work is concerned with intertextuality, slow practice, and chronic pain. They are a member of the collective, Sick in Quarters.

Taylor Alyson Lewis

Taylor Alyson Lewis is a poet and high school teacher based in Philly. Taylor has received fellowships to support his writing from Lambda Literary, Fine Arts Work Center, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, where he was awarded the Queer Writer Fellowship in Prose.

Instagram: @blackboipoet

Maia Brown-Jackson: After an incredibly practical literature degree from the University of Chicago, award-winning, pushcart-nominated Maia Brown-Jackson then braved the myriad esoteric jobs that inevitably followed, ultimately straying to Iraq to volunteer with survivors of ISIS genocide. Inspired with a new focus, she caffeinated herself through a graduate degree in terrorism and human rights and now investigates fraud, waste, and abuse of humanitarian aid in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Also, she writes.

Instagram: @tilting.at.windmills

Audrey Zee Whitesides is a poet & musician from Elizabethtown, KY, currently living in Philadelphia, PA. Her work touches desire, queerness, capital, & the social. You can find her live or recorded with artists like Speedy Ortiz, Mal Blum, & Mel Stone, or on the internet talking about reality tv, anime, & movies on the Shadow Play Gays podcast. Her work is published or forthcoming in Bullshit, Bone Bouquet, Eoagh, Glittermob, and more.

Instagram: @audreyotherway

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Tuesdays, 4-10pm | The triumphant return of Taco Tuesday is finally here! Y’all better zoom down for $1.50 beef or bean tacos every Tuesday!! And wash it all down with $3 Tecate!

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.