May 16th, 2024
Heiress Siren Amani Savage (she/her) is a 29 year old Trans Woman of Color. She is a drag performer at night and a make-up artist and stylist during the day. She has been in the Ballroom scene for about 11 years. Heiress Siren performs every Monday night at Tabu nightclub. You can follow and support her on Instagram @prime_instinct27 or Facebook: Heiress Serenity Amanii Savage.
Mika Romano (she/they) is a lifelong artist and musician, doing her best to walk through this world with humility, love, and wonder. She is honored to contribute healing music on dulcimer for this important and powerful event. Her Instagram is @ringingdulcimer
Jennifer Turnbull’s artistic practice is rooted in the belief that environmental & racial justice are inextricably linked, that Blackness and indigeneity are integral to the protection of the earth in the face of the ongoing genocide of all earthlings.
Based in a lifelong practice of training in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip Hop, and West African dance Jennifer has focused on site specific performance & experimental film within the context of natural bodies of water & their surrounding habitats for the past seven years, integrating written and spoken word, sound and projection. Turnbull has co-led the production of parades, live interactive performances & created movement for direct-action and protest, site-specific to city streets and parks with Spiral Q.
Turnbull’s practice as a cultural organizer uses participatory art making and presentation to center the expression of marginalized communities toward justice and collective liberation.
Under the moniker of Honeychile, Philadelphia-based musician, singer, and songwriter Becca Graham (she/they) explores themes of identity, relationships, and coming-of-age by taking on the roles of a hip-hop emcee and a jazz diva. With a mix of humor, vulnerability, and sass, Honeychile wishes to challenge listeners’ perceptions of the Black musical canon, following in the footsteps of giants past and present. You can follow and support HoneyChile on IG: @honeychilemusic
APRIL 27, 2023 @ 6:00 P.M.
Interested in getting involved? Email us at phillytbtn@gmail.com
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13th ANNUAL
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT PHILLY – 2023
APRIL 27, 2023
MEET UP AT 5:45 for Community March at 36th & Chestnut
MARCH STARTS AT – 6:00
BUST THE MYTHS & SPEAK OUT – following march at 21st & Chestnut
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Interested in getting involved? Email us at phillytbtn@gmail.com
Make a donation here:
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT PHILLY – OUR 13TH YEAR (gofundme.com)
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@Robin-Strough-2 – Venmo or
$RStrough – Cash App
Please comment TBTN 2023 Donation
You are loved.
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12th ANNUAL
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT PHILLY
We appreciate everyone who donated, came out to bust the myths, speak, support, and stand in solidarity with the Take Back the Night Philly Community.
Check out the Gallery for our pictures from our amazing photographers
Stay in touch, stay well.
You are loved.
See you next year.
Details for Take Back the Night Philly 2022
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We hope to see you there….
OUR 2022 LINE UP/AGENDA !
6 pm – Gather, rally & connect at The First Unitarian church at 21st/Chestnut.
6:15 pm – “Bust the Myths” street action.
6:30 pm – Welcome & History from the Philly TBTN Organizing committee.
6:45 pm – Story/experience sharing speak out/”Breaking the Silence”.
7:45 pm – Mika R performing on the Hammered Dulcimer.
8 pm – Story/experience sharing speak out/”Breaking the Silence”.
9 pm – Jennifer Turnbull – “Healing & Reconciliation Dance: a flash mob style participatory dance that embodies the violence done to BIPOC bodies throughout US history. In moving together may we embody & experience acknowledgment and seek ongoing reconciliation of this deep trauma on our peoples”. – JT
9:15 – Story/experience sharing speak out/”Breaking the Silence”.
10:15 – Candlelight Vigil.
COVID precautions for
TBTN Philly 2022:
Everyone must wear a mask when you are indoors/inside the church..
Hand sanitizer will be provided and regular use is encouraged
Microphones will be wiped off with Clorox/Lysol wipes after each use.
Every other row in the Sanctuary will be taped off – please do not move these markers.
A dot sticker color system will be in place so people know your comfort level with being approached:
Red = Please don’t approach me
Yellow = Please ask to approach me
Green = It’s all good to approach me.
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TAKE BACK THE NIGHT 2022
APRIL 28, 2022
THE 12TH ANNUAL TBTN PHILLY WILL LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR AS WE PLAN TO ALL GATHER AT THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA LOCATED AT 2125 CHESTNUT STREET FOR THE SPEAK OUT PORTION OF OUR USUAL EVENT – DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE A MARCH FROM THE 4 POINTS, BUT HOPE YOU STILL COME AND RAISE YOUR VOICE IN SOLIDARITY WITH OTHERS FROM THE COMMUNITY.
A MESSAGE FROM ONE OF OUR FOUNDERS….
dear all,
this year’s Take Back the Night Philly was one of the biggest, most beautiful, intensely powerful, intentional, and connecting ones to date. each year seems to grow & become more inclusive and more amazing than the last. in our ninth year, we doubled our supporting organizations, our number of marchers & “Bust the Myths” participants, and the number of brave, strong, brilliant people who risked their vulnerability & their silence and traded it for safety and support; i am truly humbled and inspired by your strength & your stories of struggle, survival, resiliency, unpacking, reclaiming, & growth.
thank you to all who came out and participated, who spoke & shared, who made signs and art, gave donations, promoted & shared about it, bought t-shirts, and supported and created a safer space for each other. you made your burden and the burdens of others a little less heavy with your presence. 5 hours of powerful humans sharing their stories and energy and lives together. thank you all for supporting my and your ever-changing, always evolving process.
it means more than you could ever know.
it was:
honesty. passion. love.
support. brutality. resistance.
resiliency. growth. unlearning.
unpacking. believing. seeing.
growing. hearing. healing.
being.
transforming.
realizations.
community. bonding. vulnerability.
boldly and bravely believing this life can be more.
building power through presence and intention.
you are strength. you are power. you are loved.
thank you for believing and manifesting that this world can be stronger, better, and safer for survivors. thank you for trusting our organization, our dedicated volunteers & organizers, and the safer space we created, to share with us and grow with us.
please take care of yourself in the weeks to come. process, write, run, purge, sleep, eat well, exercise, draw, yell, share more – do whatever you need to do to feel safe, seen, heard, and supported. talk with your friends and loves about your experiences listening & sharing and feel free to write to us at tbtnphilly@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, comments, concerns, excitements, or other thoughts you have.
we hope to see you – and five of your friends – next year.
keep loving. keep fighting.
- amanda spitfire. (2019)