Po'Chop

Po'Chop Chicago based performance artist that uses elements of burlesque and drag to inspire.

It’s ya girl’s birthday week and I’m packing my bags to head to May 14-17 to perform alongside a stellar cast.Stay tune...
05/11/2026

It’s ya girl’s birthday week and I’m packing my bags to head to May 14-17 to perform alongside a stellar cast.

Stay tuned for birthday reflections on Saturday when I celebrate 41 years on this 🌍.

Been dreaming of becoming a Drag King?Tomorrow, Tuesday April 21, our next 4 week session of Drag King 101 at starts.đź”— ...
04/20/2026

Been dreaming of becoming a Drag King?

Tomorrow, Tuesday April 21, our next 4 week session of Drag King 101 at starts.

đź”— in bio or visit www.houseofthelorde.com/classes to reserve your spot.

Notes on Masculinity is BACK!April 14 at You already know what do. Bring your people and your singles for this drag kin...
03/26/2026

Notes on Masculinity is BACK!
April 14 at

You already know what do.
Bring your people and your singles for this drag king centered cabaret.

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Hosted by your favorite uncles
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with slinging đź’µ as our dollar daddy!

A new session of classes begins on April 12th!If you’ve been craving something new, this is your invitation to join us a...
03/21/2026

A new session of classes begins on April 12th!

If you’ve been craving something new, this is your invitation to join us at House of the Lorde.

Our classes are beginner friendly. Absolutely no experienced needed.

Come just as your are.

Swipe to discover how you can join us.

đź”— in bio or at www.houseofthelorde.com/classes

What does it mean to truly define ourselves?Yesterday was International Women’s Day. Happy belated!More and more, I’ve b...
03/09/2026

What does it mean to truly define ourselves?

Yesterday was International Women’s Day. Happy belated!

More and more, I’ve been wrestling with my identity. What does it mean to identify as a Black, woman-loving woman?

Lemme tell you the way, Spillers’ “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” has made me question all the labels I’ve clung to.

Lately, in the solitude of my home with Tiff, I said, “I think I’m a nonbinary woman.”

Tiff asked me the question that was ricocheting through my mind as I offered a laugh for a distraction.

What does that mean?

I said something like: it means something more expansive and uncontainable. It means acknowledging the socialization that comes with gender norms, that I am something beyond what can be named as woman or man or even human.

But honestly I’m still trying to find words for what it means to me.

All of this feels incredibly vulnerable to share, especially in a space, like IG, that often desires easy consumption.

I say I am a Black nonbinary woman because I need to acknowledge all the lineages that have lived so I could know life.

I’m grappling with how to honor all parts of myself in a world hellbent on demanding we name it, define it, label it.

I’m reminded over and over again of Lorde’s words found in Learning from the 60s: “If we don’t define ourselves for ourselves, we will be crunched into others’ fantasies of us and eaten alive.” Yet, even when I name and claim myself, folks still project their own images onto me…

Anyways, happy International Women’s Day lol..

P.S. This carousel of images ain’t got nothing to do with Women’s Day. Maybe they are a February dump. Maybe they capture moments when it felt like folks were claiming a part of themselves or their truth or maybe it ain’t that deep and I just wanted them all to be here together. So yeah. ✌🏾

What March looking like…
03/07/2026

What March looking like…

02/27/2026

Who taught you what’s sexy?

Last summer I took Hair O’Graphy class.

Rather than focusing on hair whips and tricks, it felt like a call to consider our relationship to hair and what we desire. That what we deem attractive is directly connected to what we’ve been conditioned to consider beautiful.

During class, Jo talked about witnessing sit on the edge of the tub at Bath Tub Gin. Remove her wig. Untwist her natural hair. Dip it into the water and fling it with a toss of her head.

Jo talked about the tension of that moment. The layers held in the simple act of a Black woman revealing her natural hair and dipping into water.

Someone shared they had taken a college class outlining the history and politics of Black hair. Later, when prompted to name what they associated with sexy or attractive hair, that same person responded, “straight, silky hair.”

I was reminded that folks can be confronted with knowledge, but the work of undoing ourselves from our conditioning only happens if we commit to it.

What I have committed to in burlesque is showing up as my full self.

I pick out my fro and allow the beams of the spotlight to illuminate each follicle.
I luxuriate in the softness of my coils as my fingertips massage my scalp.

For the eighteen year old me who walked into a salon and said cut it all the perm off and ain’t looked back.
For who taught me how to do a twist out.
For my momma who still lets me sit between her legs for cornrows.
For who answers when I say, Sis I need a trim.
For who labors over my head for hours to ensure every stitch braid is perfection.

When I pause to feel my fingertips on my scalp I do it as an act of care.

I am loving on myself the way I have been loved, full of gratitude for knowing that beauty is not a texture but a state of being.

📸 x from

Shoutout to who got us all reflecting on what burlesque is.

Our next 4-week session of burlesque and drag classes at starts this Sunday.Our classes at there core are an invitation...
02/20/2026

Our next 4-week session of burlesque and drag classes at starts this Sunday.

Our classes at there core are an invitation to practice presence, study the art of tease,and reimagine how we embody gender.

✨ Sunday
Intro to Burlesque is SOLD OUT
Uses of the Erotic: Burlesque as Power | 3:30-4:45 Pm

✨ Monday
Intro to Burlesque | 11 am - Noon

✨ Tuesday
Drag King 101 | 6:30 -7:30 pm

Two scholarship spots per class are held for Black, Indigenous, People of Color and q***r folks for whom cost is a barrier. www.houseofthelorde.com/scholarship

Reserve your spot at houseofthelorde.com/classes! đź”— in bio

Happy birthday to our beloved ancestor, Audre Lorde.Today we not only celebrate the legacy of the self described Black, ...
02/18/2026

Happy birthday to our beloved ancestor, Audre Lorde.

Today we not only celebrate the legacy of the self described Black, mother, warrior, poet, we also honor the 4 year anniversary of our Black feminist sanctuary,

Lorde’s life and work changed everything for us. She illuminated parts of ourselves we did not yet have language for. So much so that we continue to feel an urgency to share her writing, her values, her life with anyone who will listen, and perhaps even those who will not.

We hope today you find a moment to pause. To read her words. To reflect on what silences live within you.

Thank you, Audre Lorde, for insisting on the power in our differences. For naming the necessity of transforming language into action. For reminding us that feeling deeply is a form of wisdom. For demanding we do our work and for teaching us that honoring the deepest parts of ourselves is a radical act.

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