Ahead of its seventh anniversary, NYLON catches up with the founders of New York City’s favorite party celebrating queer and trans people of color — and the people who love them.
Bombastic frequencies reverberate throughout Zone 1 of Papi Juice at Elsewhere, a nightlife venue in Brooklyn, New York. Time suspends as partygoers ambitiously push across the dance floor, making their way to the stage to show off their best bounce skills. Papis, mamis, and everyone expanding, compounding, and outright destroying gender, crowd together as the bass thumps.
Founded in 2013, bar-side after a day of gallery hopping, Papi Juice was launched as a party and arts movement dedicated to “celebrate queer and trans people of color and the people that love them.” Oscar Nuñez and fellow DJ Adam Rhodes found that there was not a nightlife space that could fill their needs as queer people of color.
KD: Mohammed, I was reading another interview where you were talking about how you get the inspiration for the fliers, which is another, of course, important aspect of the beauty of the party. And I wonder if you could talk about that process and how that works for you as an illustrator.Yeah, absolutely. When I sit down and do a new poster, I sit back and think about the actual event, being in this space, being around the people.
And it's funny, because as I've been sitting down to do our E-Papi posters, I've been having the hardest time because I'm so far from the space and the people. And Oscar can attest to this, I've been struggling with posters because I don't have the community to really just have that symbiotic relationship. I just can't see them.
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