QCP X RAWIYAH TARIQ
A ritual. an initiation. a mirror.
A REVIVAL, A CREATIVE CATHARSIS
“I waNT THE AUDIENCE TO FEEL LIKE THEY’RE IN SPACE”
Save The Date:
October 2022
Over a background of a full moon over a magical purple watercolor dusk, Rawiyah Tariq (they/them), in turquoise hair and a red top, faces the camera. Their gaze is welcoming, challenging, compassionate. Text reads: TBD by Rawiyah Tariq, Queer Cat Productions Artist Offering 2022, Coming This October.
ABOUT RAWIYAH
Rawiyah Tariq is a gender non-binary artist and kink aware professional with roots in queer, poly-amorous, fat community. Their tone is reflective of these roots and their work is informed by how these intersect with their Blackness. Magic, massage, storytelling and performance art are tools they use to liberate, heal and reclaim space for marginalized communities. They believe in cohesive and somatic practices that align body, mind and spirit.
Rawiyah Tariq has danced on stages throughout the country with the award winning and internationally traveled troupe Rubenesque Burlesque as Magnoliah Black from 2009 to 2015. As a solo performer their work (often preformed on mainstream stages) continues to reflect body liberation, visibility and self possession beyond the static sizest and often racist Eurocentric beauty myth. Rawiyah was celebrity model for the first annual Queer Fashion Week in 2015 & 2016, Curvy Girl Lingerie and has been photo’d for Curve magazine in Bertha Pearl’s Size Queen Fashions.
A former member of Santa Clara County Leather Association since and former Associate Producer of Red Hots Burlesque the country’s longest running queer burlesque & cabaret show Rawiyah has worked to create and maintain space for artists and players of diverse backgrounds and talents.
Rawiyah is a past Board Member of good standing and FeMCee of The Body Political and has continued with the organization in creating programming for queer youth.
Rawiyah is the co-founder of A Sovereign Embodiment Healing Collective. As ASE Collective’s Certified Massage Therapist and spirit worker they focus on QTPOC, Disabled, Elderly, Fat and Other’ed bodied folk. Their prices are set to support low income communities. They offer barter and trade options as well as free monthly massages to community members in need. For more see A Sovereign Embodiment
They have facilitated and spoken at events such as Baycon, NOLOSE, Fat Activist Conference: Tools for the Revolution , Fatty Affair, Pantheacon, Mystic South, The Northwest Pagan Conference and the Modern Witches Confluence. They have spoken at several universities including UC Berkeley, Stanford, Stanulious and San Jose State regarding intersectionality, sex, fat, feminism and health.
As a producer and presenter they consciously centers marginalized groups for spotlight appearances at events such as BayCon, Folsom Fringe and the Hubba Hubba Review.
Rawiyah’s most recent published work can be found in “The Politics of Size” co-authored with Juana Tango and edited by Ragen Chastian and their journey documented in interviews in Nia King’s “Queer and Trans Artist of Color”. Connect to them on social media via facebook, twitter and instagram or follow them at their blog mammyisdead.com. You can also catch them as a feature in the film Fattitude and Heavenly Brown Body
Currently, Rawiyah is living in the Bay Area while continuing work on their book and A Sovereign Embodiment as well as providing care to Black Queer & Trans therapists via Project Ete Sen with Ella Ofori LMFT and launching a Black centered podcast My Black Body Podcast with Jessica Wilson MSRD
RAWIYAH TARIQ IS OUR 2022 SELECTED ARTIST!
RAWIYAH X QCP
We are SO PROUD do be welcoming back an artist we have loved and admired and who has brought so much to our company. We have been so lucky to work and make art with Rawiyah:
RAWIYAH was STAR in Felix B. Love is NOT alone!
RAWIYAH was part of the inaugural Artist Offering Manifestation Council, first as a community advisor, then as a reader;
RAWIYAH was part of our first (and only) Curious At the End, at The Stud, in February 2020. We are so proud to get to welcome Rawiyah as a lead artist. WATCH THIS SPACE! We’ll have MEWS soon!
The artist Rawiyah Tariq (they/them), close up, looks straight at the camera through luscious hair. One eye is hidden, the other looks straight into the viewer with power and magic. They wear only an amulet reflecting the colors of the galaxy.