PARTICIPANT AFTER DARK (VOL. 6): 18th Anniversary

VAGINAL DAVIS PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

DJ set by: April Hunt

Welcome by our host: Justin Vivian Bond

Toast to our outgoing Board President Jacqueline Humphries by: Lia Gangitano and Jeffrey Gibson

Presidential Acceptance Poem for Participant Inc by our incoming Board President: Vaginal Davis

Followed by remarks, performance and video interludes by: Jonathan Berger with Michael Stipe, Baseera Khan, Susanne Sachsse, Sofia Moreno, Charles Atlas, Glendalys Medina, CHRISTEENE, Narcissister, Ron Athey, and an astrological forecast by Constantina Zavitsanos and Tourmaline (see below).

ASL Interpretation: Candace Davider; Technical Director: Glen Fogel; Cameras and video tech: Lazar Bozic and Jordan Strafer

PARTICIPANT ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST:

solar return 2020 new moon 2nd venus rising cancer mc pluto conjunct ic

nodal return 2021

this is like moving from “love is everywhere” to “love is anywhere” it’s a real cush cruise spot tbh where uno u pick up on whatever’s around and in the 12th u pick up every flavor in the fridge and become this kinda dark capacious void or conjuring space this nothing from which everything comes ;)

transiting pluto in the 8th house this began in fall of 2019 actually and it continues til ahem spring 2031 so uno this will be some time but the vibe is v sexy and actually quite deep. this is the sex death and taxes house where intimacies become legacies it’s not the kind of flame and fame your sun is used to tho in terms of doing your own thing which the 5th house does so well—this is more O.P.P. other people’s property so you may have to at times bottom to some serious suits and at other times you may have to well top the whole room when all you rly wanted was was your lil cut. don’t worry the ppl you can trust in here are for this life and the next few lives too cuz this is deep bond. watch out for the calcified haters but don’t be afraid to take up a lot of space in defining and even defiling your image, manifesting yr mirage beyond every notion of space and time too, or crashing the whole shit down cuz what rises from the wreckage and sometimes even the wreckage itself will endlessly be to yr glory. remember this is a deep pool and youre only j beginning yr dive. this is where you find out from death itself how to live forever and as a an additional note jupiter who is always a bit of a size queen is here to start a brand new 12 year cycle that wants you to do things rly rly big. fame isn’t j the bright shine of yr 5th house but the legacy of life in nonopposition with death in yr 8th. and that’s what remembers your name.

neptune and chiron up top want to keep it spiritual and uranus in the 11th knows that the wild company you keep is the whole in and beyond every part. it’s time to get even weirder with ur anus in service of from and with yr wildest neighbors friends and communities. some of the the veil grows ever thinner as u straddle the threshold knowing not exactly what’s btwn yr legs but resting assured that yr in good company.

welcome president vaginal davis! fuckn love you lia! and happy new moon solar return participant—this year you actually can be *anything* and *anyone* you want to be! we’re with you literally anywhere!