You've Always Belonged is an imagined campaign project, spanning print, digital, and environmental mediums. It holds space for and aims to educate BIPOC Queer youth all around the world who have known what it’s like to feel isolated in their intersectional identities by seeking to highlight Queer & Trans BIPOC (QTBIPOC) history and remind folks that there are spaces where they belong, in all their BIPOC queer joy, and that there always have been. This zine focuses on the origins of Ballroom culture and the Black and Brown icons that started it all.

Photo/Content Sources:

It's Nice That

Chantal Regnault

Google Arts & Culture: Ballroom History

Van Vouge Jam: Vogue History

Madre Mezcal