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10/10/2026

PUMPDABEAT UNIVERSITY | LIBRARY & BOOKSTORE WEEK
Saturday, Oct 10: The Speculative Wing is open.

How many trans superheroes are there? Not enough. So the Library shelved a whole house of them.

In ballroom, a trans woman is a Fem Queen. FEM QUEEN AVENGERS is out now and it's required reading for the semester.

The setting is Versatopolis, a city stacked in three tiers and run by J.U.D.Y., an algorithm with one mission: make everyone Standard. Same look, same voice. Down in the Sunken Sectors, where the ballroom lives, that is a declaration of war.

Enter four sisters and one very opinionated chrome cat. Today's lecture covers their coursework:

✨ Siren: Glamour and illusion. When she lets go, the whole air turns gold.
🌀 Vogue: She folds space like fabric. Strike a pose and the world bends to meet it.
👠 Giselle: One heel to the floor and the floor answers back.
🎤 Mother Lex: She drops her voice low enough, through a chrome mic, and walls listen.
😼 Fitz: An AI cat who hacks the grid while giving live commentary on the chaos. Level Eight, always.

Inside, you get a raided ball, a plan that sounds impossible, and a crew with the nerve to try it. You also get a city gone dark that answers back with light, a youth ball that needs protecting, and a tower that thinks it owns the culture. Whose history gets erased, and whose gets heard by everybody? No spoilers. Check it out of the Library and find out.

Ballroom has always turned survival into spectacle. This book gives that spectacle superpowers. Tens across, honey.

📖 Link in bio. Open the Library & Bookstore Week page and tap Fem Queen Avengers.
🎓 Students: Homecoming is coming. Finish your reading.

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10/09/2026

Nobody hands you a rulebook when you walk into ballroom. So we wrote one.

Welcome to Ballroom: A Newcomer's Complete Guide is the required text for the College of Ballroom Studies at Pumpdabeat University. It's 97 pages and 19 chapters from someone who has been in the room since 1998.

Inside you'll learn:
How the house system works, and what a house expects from you.
What it really costs to compete.
How the categories are judged and how a ball runs.
What's expected of you on the floor.
How to protect yourself, your music and your archive.
How to turn what you do in ballroom into a real resume.

It doesn't skip the hard parts. There's a chapter called The Ugly Truths They Hide.

Teaching a class or running a youth program? Every chapter comes with discussion questions, and companion instructor materials are available for the classroom.

The 19 chapters:

1. What You Are Really Entering
2. The House System Decoded
3. The Financial Reality Check
4. Competition and Categories
5. Ball Structure and Survival
6. The Ugly Truths They Hide
7. Protection Strategies
8. The Career Roadmap
9. Survival Stories and Lessons
10. Leaving a Legacy
11. The Soundtrack of Survival
12. Digital Presence and Cultural Stakes
13. Reading the Room
14. Walking Away From Home
15. Are You Ready? Mental Health and Self-Management
16. The Real Resume
17. Legal Protection for DJs, Music Makers, Video, and Archives
18. The Culture Travels: Ballroom International
19. The Next Era

Get the book on Amazon, and read the preface free on the Week 2 page. Both links are in the bio.

Tag the person who needs this one.

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09/27/2026

09/27/2026

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08/25/2026

1st Annual DMV Kiki Scene Field Day is here. Produced by the DMV Kiki Ballroom Council and Us Helping Us — People Into Living.

Sunday, September 6, 2026. 3PM to 8:30PM. Us Helping Us — The D.E.N.I.M. Collection, 8240 Professional Pl, Suites 203 and 207A/B, Landover/New Carrollton, MD 20785.

Music by DJs of the DMV. Microphone by Voices of the DMV.

Kickball tournament. Three legged runway race. Tug of war. Double dutch. Card games. Food, refreshments, music, field day games, and a mini vogue lounge. Free confidential HIV/STI testing on-site, plus access to the DENIM Cupboard food pantry, clothing bank, and wellness resources from 3PM to 8PM. Indoor access for restrooms, air conditioned seating area available.

All houses welcome.

08/25/2026

The 2nd Annual Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Cookout & Fish Fry is back. Presented by the Tri-County Health Network of Maryland, powered by Gilead. Free food, resources, games, and giveaways.
Friday, August 28th. 4PM to 8PM. The Denim Collection, 8240 Professional Pl Suite 207, Landover, MD 20785. Free event — register at the link in the flyer.
PUMPDABEAT stands with Tri-County Health Network, AHF, CCI, Greater Baden Medical Services, Heart to Hand, ViiV Healthcare, the African American Health Program, and every organization doing the work to get our people tested, informed, and cared for. Community health is culture work too. Pull up.

08/25/2026

Cookout & Fish Fry The DENIM Collection Sounds by PUMPDABEAT

08/13/2026

And we are back! The SECOND ANNUAL Back To School Supply Drive and Open Practice for the DMV Kiki scene 💋💋 yall know we did it BIG last year. Let’s do it again. Ft the ICONIC VJ Pumpdabeat on the ones and twos.

08/08/2026

08/06/2026

Legendary Baltimore Father Romeo Louboutin
Founding Mother Arielle Glamorous
Cool For The Summer Mini Kiki Ball

August 15,2026

🎤 : Nezuko Louboutin & PUMPDABEAT

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