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♡music rehearsal and video production space
♡cultivating a radical music scene
♡QT+BIPOC TO THE FRONT

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Pigeon Cult Records presents
Queen of Cardboard
Thank you.

📸: @rossie.world
📍: @qtstudios415

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…Queen of Cardboard

#sflocals #sfbayarea #originalband

📸: @rossie.world
📍: @qtstudios415

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To wrap up the year which will forever be known as our debut year (2025) we want to share some portraits & band photos taken by Rossie (fellow studio mate) who so gorgeously captured our honest & raw essence. We are beyond grateful for these captures, we hope you’ll like them as much as we do too.

📸: @rossie.world
📍: @qtstudios415

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come see me this winter for a tattoo and I’ll tell you stories about how clay takes the shape of emotional memory and how music is an endless well of possibility portals <3

💌December 5: Baltimore at @fruit.camp
💌December 12-13: Brooklyn at Flower World
💌December 27: Berkeley at @dollhouse.tattoo
💌January-March: Bay Area

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SANCTUARY OF COMPASSION made during Halloween flash fundraiser day for @qtstudios415. thank you to everyone who came through to get tattooed and support this rad qt+bipoc music space <3 thanks @prettyininkelectric for having me as a guest artist. I loved being unplanned jester baddies together

I’m booking for November 8 in Los Angeles @angelkissesstudio ~ flash & custom tattoos. hit my line here or inkportals@proton.me with your tattoo dreams :)

#latattoo #oaklandtattoo #qttr #queertattooartist

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🖤💀🕯️ SANCTUARY OF COMPASSION 🕯️💀🖤 new flash first available on October 31 at @prettyininkelectric Oakland location

15% of what I make on Halloween will be donated to @qtstudios415 to support their transition to a cooperative music and photo production space for QT+BIPOC babes in the Bay Area. QT Studios is rad af and creating the world I want to live in, check them out!

SANCTUARY OF COMPASSION flash designs are also available:
💌November 8 @angelkissesstudio in Los Angeles
💌December 5 @fruit.camp in Baltimore
💌December 12-14 at Flower World in Brooklyn

DM or email inkportals@proton.me to reserve a spot

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may all empires crumble, may we build altars to freedom and co-creation in their dissolution ⚔️🖤🌱

healed empire smashing ace of blades made at @dollhouse.tattoo for Court. thanks so much for your trust and getting this sailor moon coded flash piece :)

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After the teach-ins, we will gather in the Project Space to collectively imagine an alternative future for 111 Taylor while listening to DJ DeAlma !

This expansive vision is meant to be grounded in a transecological approach: understanding the site as part of a living system and recognizing justice across movements, connecting the struggles that shaped Compton’s riot—policing, carcerality, poverty, racism, housing insecurity, and more.

At the Artbuild Dream Stations, facilitators will offer alternative media for the audience to express their ideas. Prompts will draw from our framework: engaging with the layered histories of the site while envisioning possibilities for a liberated future.

We have invited incredible facilitators to support participants in expressing their ideas:
Drawing Dream Station w/ Messy Beck
Audio Dream Station w/ QT Studios
Collage Dream Station w/ Dio Brooks and
Writing Dream Station w/ stevie redwood
(Bios in comments)

Artwork will be archived and featured in an exhibit for Compton’s 60th anniversary next year. Together, these creations will contribute to a collective vision for the site.

Join us!
When: Saturday, August 23
Time: Doors open at 4:30pm · Teach-ins start at 5pm
Where: CounterPulse, 80 Turk St.
RSVP here: bit.ly/59thComptonsRiot (case sensitive) — link in bio
Free event · Masks required · ASL interpretation · ADA accessible
Tabling by @hroc.sf · @blueopinc · @stopcopcitybayarea

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Come together for an evening of celebration and collective imagination marking the 59th Anniversary of Compton’s Riot.
We’ll ground ourselves to expand the liberatory visions for the future of the Compton’s site, share art, music, food, performance, and create together at our Artbuild Dream Stations!

Saturday August 23
Doors open at 4:30pm
Counterpulse, 80 Turk St.,Tenderloin
RSVP—> bit.ly/59thComptonsRiot <—Case Sensitive
Link in bio | Free Event | ASL Interpretation available | Free Food | Masks required

Teach-ins:
Holy Old Man Bull @marcus.arana
Dr. Susan Stryker @susan_stryker
MC: Dan Kabella (CxC) @dan.kabella

Soundscape by resting between waveforms: @transcriptions01 & @dreamscapesandwhatnot

Artbuild Dream Stations:
Audio Station w/ QT Studios @qtstudios415
Writing Station w/ stevie redwood @homotrashittalker
Drawing Station w/ Messy Beck @messybeck
Collage Station w/ Dio Brooks @sentientdumpling

With DJ Tecuani Feroz @tecuani.feroz

Performance by The One And Only Rexy @theoneandonlyrexy

Survey Party with Wilder Zeiser @zeiseriser & Dakota Rose @dope.rosepeddlez

Harm redux tabling by Blue Orchid Project @blueopinc & HROC @hroc.tl

Documentation by @chanibocks

Flyer design by Spencer Bundoc @spencerbundoc
Special thanks to @ach_attackh
This project is supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission

ALT TEXT: Event poster with bold, hand-painted white text on a purple and dark pink background reading “59th Anniversary of Compton’s Riot.” Details include: “80 Turk St, CounterPulse, August 23, 5–8 PM, Free Event.” Additional text reads: “Art Build Dream Stations, DJ Sets, Teach-ins, Performances, Food, Masks Required, ASL Interpreters.” The lower section shows the building at Turk and Taylor Streets with a mural of two large portraits of feminine figures on. Logos for SF Arts Commission, CounterPulse, and Compton’s x Coalition appear at the bottom.

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Welcome to QT Studios! 🎸🎥 We’re a radical, inclusive space for queer/trans/BIPOC artists to create, collaborate, and disrupt the status quo. 💥✨

QT Studios offers a creative and experimental space equipped with the resources artists need to bring their visions to life. Our space provides shared access to photo, video, and sound equipment, enabling artists to produce high-quality work without the financial burden of purchasing costly tools. More than just a studio, QT Studios is a community built on radical, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperial values, advocating for the voices of queer, trans, and BIPOC artists in entertainment and the arts.

We're also lucky to be located across the street from the historic site of the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot and this past weekend's celebration of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) Trans Fest ☆ (scroll for pics!)

⋆｡°✩ t4t 4evr ✩°｡⋆

Tag an artist who needs this space~

Learn more about us on our website, link in bio ;)

music featured is "Trans 101 (Scarim)" by @bobbysanchezmusic

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DM if interested in organizing a Trans Liberation/Visibility rally at Comp on’s

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🌹PALESTINE WILL BE FREE🌹it’s my role as an artist to integrate truth and dream beyond the horrors of what we’re conditioned to think is normal. that means joining @fruit.camp and @qtstudios415 in calling for a Free Palestine, an end to white supremacy and colonial conditioning!

#FreePalestine #EndTheOccupation
Repost @ojosmagnificos
ARTISTS AGAINST APARTHEID! 🇵🇸

As artists and cultural producers, our work has the power to shape public opinion. Today, as the media wages a war against truth and strips this conflict of its historical context, we have a unique responsibility to use our voice and artistic practices to say NO MORE! Now is the time to protest apartheid and amplify the just cause of the Palestinian people and their resistance against 75 years of occupation.

Artists and cultural workers, join us in standing firmly on the side of the oppressed. We say DOWN WITH OCCUPATION, UP WITH LIBERATION!

In solidarity with oppressed people everywhere. Blessings ❤️‍🔥♾️

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