Riot Productions

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Theatrical production company focused on developing new works, especially music, reflecting intersectional feminism and representation for womxn, people of color, and the lgtqia+ community.

06/04/2026

It takes zero courage to love you.

06/04/2026

Truer words.

06/04/2026

No time is the time for continuous compromise.

06/03/2026

Many conservative book burners and conservative school boards intent on closing libraries or keeping lgbtqia+ representative books off shelves think that the words “turn” kids…when in reality kids see options, kids see representation, kids see other people feeling what they feel and know they’re not alone, they’re not weird, they’re allowed to be happy.

They have more exposure to language that helps them feel they belong and q***r kids, particularly trans and nonbinary kids, suffer fewer symptoms of depression and suicidal ideation. They learn that they are okay. That there are adults out there who not only live they way they want to but that there are adults who accept q***r folk and families that stay together and friends who are accepting.

It’s the language that matters. Giving words to feelings.

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At Riot we take our name from this vibrant portrait of the Queen mother of Pride, Marsha P Johnson, conceived by the ar...
06/02/2026

At Riot we take our name from this vibrant portrait of the Queen mother of Pride, Marsha P Johnson, conceived by the artist

Marsha was a drag queen and a s*x worker, a performer and an activist who is credited for throwing the “shot glass heard round the world” when she hurled a shot glass into the mirror at the Stonewall Inn when police raided the bar attempting to arrest the gay and cross dressing patrons and screamed “I got my civil rights!”

The stonewall was one of the few places of refuge the most marginalized folk of the gay community could find a safe place to rest: drag queens, trans folk, effeminate young men, hustlers and homeless youth. Police raids on gay bars were routine in the 1960s—but at the time it was routine to alert the precinct and to attack when crowds were small. Police attacked late on a Friday night and quickly lost control of the situation, which escalated into a riot and drew the attention of the entire community of Greenwich village. This kicked off a series of riots which were memorialized every year to this day with global Pride parades and celebrations.

But Marsha p Johnson because of her dark skin, her status as a s*x worker, because of living as a trans woman, was marginalized and pushed aside from history—as bipoc and trans folk have been within the q***r community, as s*x workers and homeless youth have been, always. Marsha went on to be an adamant activist for the gay liberation front and formed the street transvestite action revolutionaries (STAR). She was instrumental in community resistance demanding the right to be openly gay without retaliation and supported unhoused transgender youths with a shelter she and Sylvia Rivera funded by begging and engaging in s*x work.

Throughout the 70s the q***r community removed and excluded Marsha and Sylvia and the transgender community despite their ongoing contributions to the lgbtqia struggle for rights.

Marsha was an adamant activist for AIDS patients; organizing the AIDS walk in LA, marching, fundraising, as well as being the caretaker for a critically ill friend. She would later test positive for HIV herself. +

In 1992 there were no protections keeping a person from being fired for being gay, so my mom was out in private but clos...
06/01/2026

In 1992 there were no protections keeping a person from being fired for being gay, so my mom was out in private but closeted at work. In the 90s anti-lgbtqia+ violence, as the AIDS epidemic stormed across the nation, scapegoating the LGBTQIA+ community, vicious violence and police brutality against the LGBTQIA+ community was at an all time high. Brutal and vicious attacks constantly made local and national news.

A rainbow then wasn’t a happy tee shirt at Target that you could wear with impunity. It was a gesture of defiance that could bring violence down on you and your family and anyone that rainbow glow fell on. More common was the triangle my mom defiantly wore as a pin on her bag and on a little sign at our house.

Pride then wasn’t a celebration of s*x and love and joy. It was showing up in ways that took up space and made folks uncomfortable—and the gay men who bravely showed up in b***y shorts and leather, bare chested and defiant, and the le****ns who showed up, with their cropped hair and their piercings, holding hands and kissing, understood that this parade could be the thing that tipped over into violence.

And still they danced and kissed and held hands and threw glitter and love in the air. Past the people who might be waiting to kill them for it.

This design is by Bracken LeClair for Riot, honoring their grandmother and all the le****ns who lived through that time and chose love anyway. The stones and the bottle represent the Stonewall Inn, where the first Pride riots took place when Marsha P. Johnson, a young trans s*x worker being arrested for the crime of wearing a dress, flung a bottle into the mirror at the Stonewall crying “I got my civil rights!” The colors on the bottle are the colors of the le***an flag, to honor the women who were incarcerated on the same street for the crime of being gay and dressing in pants, who set their mattresses on fire and threw them out the windows in protest and support of the gay and trans folk being beaten by police down below.

Happy Pride month, loves. I see you, for all you suffer and sacrifice to live authentically. I love you, for how hard you choose love.

Serena Williams shows over and over again that fashion is the art of the marginalized, the rallying cry of the fearless,...
06/01/2026

Serena Williams shows over and over again that fashion is the art of the marginalized, the rallying cry of the fearless, the visual f**k you to those who want us to be silenced. When Serena was told her pantera catsuit was banned despite her needing it for circulation to stop her risk of blood clots following the birth of her daughter, she did what she’s always done when she and her sister Venus were vilified for their blackness in a white dominated sport which demand conformity. She SHOWED UP.

It’s been a career long fight for both sisters to express themselves in any way beyond the typical white dresses required of predominantly white tennis players, despite both sisters dominating the game with their physical skills and drawing new viewers in with their dynamic performance and personalities. Still the tired game pushed back, demanding conformity. Demanding the performance of whiteness. Quiet. Demure. Blending in. A performance which most white female players have discovered leaves them largely unknown in the global stage, while Venus and Serena and many male players who stand out have learned means corporate sponsorships, bigger contracts, and a global fan base.

Serena pushed back on this rule demanding skirts and the performance of femininity with the most feminine dress possible, a lilac tutu by Virgil Abloh at Off White, and spun and twirled and in every way performed femininity and demure while absolutely f**king dominating the sport.

She and Venus had to be the best and be perfect to keep their footing in a white dominated sport. And it took her voice and her power to maintain herself within that sport—making space for young powerhouse Naomi Osaka to manage HER mental health and find her own footing.

05/31/2026

I don’t always allow men to roll in and tell me what to read…but thank you for this respectful and thorough list.

05/31/2026

Origin story. Just out in the woods of Alaska happily playing absolutely alone and hoping no one sees me.

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