Readings by:

Cecelia Gentili Originally from Argentina, Cecilia Gentili came to the USA pursuing a safer life as a transgender woman. She lived undocumented for 10 years, hustling doing sex work which came with drug use. After surviving arrests and an immigration detention, she accessed recovery services and won asylum. She subsequently served as Director of Policy at GMHC and founded Transgender Equity Consulting, which works to ensure all people living on the margins receive dignity and respect. A storyteller and actress, Cecilia has appeared in FX’s Pose and her own one-woman show The Knife Cuts Both Ways. Faltas is her first book.

Joss Barton is a writer, journalist, and spoken word performance artist exploring and documenting queer and trans* life, love, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the soundtrack of the American nightmare. Combining prose poetry, non-fiction confessional essays, drag artistry, and spoken word stage performances, Joss examines the myriad states of queer trans womanhoods from historical, political, and pop cultural identities of death, desires, dreams, and disco.

Demian DinéYazhi s a transdisciplinary artist who uses social interventions to interrupt colonial power structures. His blog Heterogeneoushomosexual contemplates “Radical Indigenous Queer Feminist Art” and how a marginalized body navigates and resists assimilation. DinéYazhi’s practice includes curation, zine production, public interactions, as well as writing and poetry. DinéYazhi’ graduated with a BFA in Intermedia Arts from PNCA in 2014 and is the founder of Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment (R.I.S.E.) an activist initiative for education and preservation of Indigenous art and culture.

Dahlia Damoiselle is a queer, transgender writer, educator and child of war refugees of Vietnamese heritage. The assemblage of her experiences at war, alongside gender, sexual, and migrant experiences of violence form the foundation for her work. As a sex worker, she seeks to normalize trans sexuality and desire in pornography. Currently, she serves as an Adjunct lecturer in American Studies, writing, and literature in New York City. She lives with her two cats in Brooklyn, NY.

THE SPACE (*please read*):

Wet Spot is an outdoor DIY performance venue in Bushwick. The event space is located on a 1,000 sq ft deck attached to a 2nd floor walk up apartment. The bathroom will be located inside the apartment. To get to the deck you will need to enter the apartment and climb out a window–there are steps in and out of the window. Due to recent COVID restrictions, all guests must be vaccinated. We request that you wear a mask when inside the building or using the restroom. You cannot hang out inside the building for any reason. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns (@wetspotnyc).

Our Mission

Wet Spot is a queer-centric performance showcase that elevates and champions local artists in an inclusive and welcoming space. Storytelling is the heart of these events, and it is our mission to curate dependable and wild performances each month. Wet Spot fosters safer spaces for all who wander from the edges, a place where folks can come together to collaborate and find community through education, activism, and celebration.

Safer Spaces Policy

In an effort to create a space where all people feel safe, we don’t tolerate any of these things in the virtual or real world of Wet Spot:

– Violence
– Non-Consensual Touching
– Racist, Homophobic, Transphobic, Sexist or Other Discriminatory Language
– Leering

If someone says or does anything to make you feel uncomfortable while you’re here please let anyone with a rainbow wristband know.

NO dogs will be allowed. This venue is not BYOB.

If the event needs to be cancelled for weather or safety reasons, you will be able to use your ticket for a future event.