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@workdatcxnt @wirsinduns

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SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!!!! That’s all 💥
Thank you @siegessaeule_magazin @wirsinduns

Coverfoto: @jackowska.karolina
Model: @jacksan_manzamussa & @iamjotaramos
Make-up: @zui_i
Redaktion: @larahansen taken in Berlin, Germany by @jotakayode

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a year ago

Mandrake Mermaid 007*
I’m very happy to know that 985 people voted and see me representing this category. I’d like to thank @transnbmasc019 @ballroomtransmascbr @ballroombr_ all my friends who are always supporting me and everyone who took the time to vote.

Congratulations to all TM who carry the category and who have also been nominated.

This award goes to all the transmasculines who fight every day for their voices to be heard. NOBODY WINS ALONE.

EUROPE TM REALNESS É BR KRLH! 🇧🇷 by @jotakayode

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3 years ago

Quem cuida dos meus caminhos nunca se atrasa, está sempre a frente. Asè! Thank you Sascha and Siegessaeule. taken in Berlin, Germany by @jotakayode

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2 years ago

Three years ago, we dared to imagine a space that didn’t exist. Today, we live in it.

From a vision born in Germany to a global channel over 20+ countries, Workdatcxnt has become Europe’s pioneering force for BIPoC transmasculine, transmen, and masculine folks in Ballroom. We are an archive holding our history. A podcast speaking our truth. A quiet resistance that’s only warming up.

Under the leadership of Mandrake 007, Calvin 007, & Founder Fashion Daddy LaBella Máfia, we held the FIRST ball for our community in Berlin (Germany) then Salvador (Brazil). We built an International Alliance Channel of 200+ folks across the globe.

No big stages, no spotlights, just us, in circle, catching our breath and being grateful.

We decided to celebrate more intimately this time around. Less noise, more listening. Taking the space to look back, look within, and dream on what comes next, without rushing the answer.

Three years of building our own table. Now we’re sitting at it, figuring out what we want to serve up for the future.

Thank you for walking with us this far. Here’s to the road ahead, still unwritten, still ours. 🏳️‍⚧️🖤

Video by the amazing @ash_gass taken in Berlin, Germany by @jotakayode

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2 months ago

Gazing Back | Performance | Berlin, 2026 | Funded by The Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

Headpiece @kingoff.ashion
Outside Eye @jacksan_manzamussa
Documentation @ash_gass by @jotakayode

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3 months ago

The past is not behind us
it is a wound we carry forward
The future is not ahead
it is a technology
we must create to survive the present

The gaze is no longer yours to control
Behind the glass,
something watches back

You won’t know
what it is
until it’s too late
to look away

Gazing Back is a performance installation by Jota Kayodê Ramos at PLATTE, Memhardstraße 8, Berlin | Funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur - IMPACT Forderung 2026

July 16 - 18 | 6pm taken in Platte by @jotakayode

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3 months ago

Behind the scenes of Gazing Back | Performance | 2026 | Funded by The Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion | Berlin

Thank you to @platte.berlin for opening their doors to @nathann_santos_ for embracing my ideas and bringing to life this amazing headpiece, to @ash_gass for always incredibly documenting my artworks, to @gdebarbosa for the insights and to @jacksan_manzamussa for being my outside eye and my heart. taken in Berlin, Germany by @jotakayode

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3 months ago

Repost from @workdatcxnt
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Workdatcxnt TM Sesh | Berlin | 2026 video by @ash_gass by @jotakayode

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4 months ago

Let us introduce ourselves again:

Jota Kayodê Ramos aka MANDRAKE 007 is a 36 years old multidisciplinary artist, communicator, community builder and activist from Brazilian periphery. His journey in ballroom began in 2019 while he was living in New York. In the same year, he made his mark at the first ball held in Porto Alegre. Since 2022, he has been standing out in the TM Realness and AA Runway categories. In 2023, he walked TM Realness at the Látex Ball in New York and, in the same year, was elected TM Realness OTY Europe by the Ballroom Session, receiving nearly 1000 votes.

Mandrake has won around 30 Grand Prizes in Paris, Brussels, Germany, and Brazil. As the founder of workdatcxnt, the first collective dedicated to amplifying transmasculine voices in the ballroom scene of Europe, he sees the collective as a space for exchange and empowerment among racialized and immigrant transmasculine folks. He is also the founder of the International Transmasculine Ballroom Alliance Channel with over 200 members from around the globe.

Through his work, he hopes to inspire the community to reflect on transmasculine identity, to connect the folks to support, exchange knowledge and uplift each other, and to create spaces with a sense of belonging for the generations to come.

Photo by @ash_gass taken in Berlin, Germany by @jotakayode

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5 months ago

Workdatcxnt TM Sesh | Berlin | 2026 photos by @ash_gass taken in Berlin, Germany by @jotakayode

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5 months ago

Farol, saudades no varal
Vermelho, azul, marrom
Porto Alegre, 2026 taken in Porto Alegre by @jotakayode

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6 months ago

Presença Negra no MARGS, Catálogo. Apresentação Francisco Dalcol, Fernanda Medeiros e Carla Batista. Texto Curatorial @abreuizis @igormsimoes taken in Porto Alegre by @jotakayode

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7 months ago