Posted on 05/17/2021 11:54:17 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
Mistress Velvet championed many causes as an activist, including Black and transgender liberation, sex workers' rights and anti-sexual violence. They died May 8.
CHICAGO — Music, tears and laughter filled the halls of First Lutheran Church of the Trinity in Bridgeport on Saturday, where loved ones of well-known dominatrix Mistress Velvet shared stories celebrating the trailblazing activist’s life.
Visitors created artwork and lit candles in Velvet’s memory, and the church was decorated with altars covered in flowers, photos and knickknacks from the iconic dominatrix’s apartment.
Friends sang and danced to a playlist of Velvet’s favorite music — a mix heavy with Beyoncé, Rihanna, SZA and Coldplay — as Velvet’s dog, Kuma, patrolled the room, giving affection to loved ones when they teared up and needed comforting. Visitors were encouraged to mingle during the four-hour memorial, which at times felt more like a ceremony in celebration of Mistress Velvet, known personally as Dani Achiaa Boachie.
“This is a community that we all built — a community that Dani built — and that’s why we’re here and we should get to know one another,” said organizer Erica Kadel, one of Boachie’s close friends.
Mistress Velvet died by suicide May 8 after months of struggling with their mental health, friends said.
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Velvet was famous for making their white, male clients read about Black feminist theory. And they advocated for multiple causes as an executive director for the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA and as director of education and training for Resilience, an Illinois-based nonprofit that advocates for survivors of sexual violence.
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I’ll bet her appearance and judgement in front of the throne of God was not very pleasant.
Which one in the picture is Mistress Velvet? My money is evenly split between the dog and the black person.
From the article:
Mistress Velvet died by suicide May 8 after months of struggling with their mental health, friends said.
(I believe the “their mental health” refers to Mistress Velvet’s mental health, not the mental health of her friends.)
Hi.
Suicide is common among mentally ill people.
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Who are the two flanking Mistress Velvet?
I don’t run with that crowd.
Y’all have to pick up on the clues...
The plural pronouns in the piece are used by some trans-wacks in place of gender specific ones.
This was a dude, who dressed like a gal, who beat and had sex with white dudes, while making them read black feminist literature.
Suicide is not a shocking result.
I had to let you know I laughed out loud when I read your comment...
Does this mean my Wednesday night appointment is cancelled?
“Family And Friends Mourn Mistress Velvet, Activist And Dominatrix Who Made Clients Read Black Feminist Theory”
Whips and leather are one thing, but talk about TORTURE!
“They” denotes plural. As in more than one. The author is just as confused as Velvet.
Not in the least surprised it suicided its confused self.
Prayers for a sick soul.
I’m sure glad I don’t write for the Babylon Bee. How they can stay ahead of the actual news is beyond me!
The old 41% Club!
Another prostitute commits suicide...
This is news?
And a path to an even more miserable afterlife.
Whatever she was, she had terrible taste in music.
ELCA, of course. This is literally sickening.
It was the ELCA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a formerly mainstream denomination which is now dead to scripture. Dead, dead, dead. Dead as a doornail. Last summer or the one before, for ELCA’s annual youth rally, usually attended by around 30,000 teenagers (of hellfire-indifferent parents), the featured speaker was transgender.
NOT to be confused with the LCMS (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod), that remains true to the Bible.
What's shocking is that "they" wasn't beat to death by a client. Happens frequently in that demographic.
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