Disruption Lawn Party

Disrupt with Haus of Glitter! Join in a lawn party that centers joy, community, and Queer BIPOC music and dance to disrupt Linden Place’s connection to the DeWolf family, one of the most prolific families engaged in the Transatlantic Human Trade. Estimates are that between 1649 and 1819, at least 953 voyages to Africa were conducted by ships registered in Rhode Island, enslaving over 113,279 individuals. Bristol ships with multiple owners were responsible for 166 voyages, with the DeWolf family business transporting 12,000 Africans on 88 different voyages to the Caribbean and British North America. 

How can we gather as a community to remember and honor the tragedy that this represents? What does it mean for us to celebrate Queer and Afro-Latinx music and dance as a protest to shift the energy of a space with a racist history? The Haus of Glitter will be performing, and DJ-ing beats for Queer Ancestral liberation on the Linden Place front lawn.