Pony Weeklies: Total Request Dec. mixtape, holiday sched, Bay Area meetup, shirts?!
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Hey Ponies!
How are you! We have something exciting to share!! Never before has Pony Sweat taken requests, but Emilia has found the curiosity, willingness, and desire to make the December mixtape PONY TOTAL REQUESTS! Not all songs that are suggested will be included, of course, but we will keep them on a list for future mixtapes! Emilia will curate a Pony Sweat mixtape and choreograph dance aerobics moves (to explore or fuck em!!). Please nominate songs that we haven’t Ponied to before — yes, we recognize that there are 10 years of mixtapes and you might not have memorized the contents of every one…that’s ok!!! Songs must be submitted by next Thursday, November 28th! Google form below. Your response is anonymous btw!
If you’d like to peruse past mixtapes for inspo, our Spotify channel is here!
Ponies, we only have 3 more November mixtape classes!!! Please join us Wednesday 10:15AM at Pickle Factory in Frogtown, Thursday 7PM at Pickle Factory, and Saturday 10:15AM at Pieter in Lincoln Heights! Firestarter has been the most EPIC way to bust open the Nov. mixtape and get muscles and bones and blood moving…love it. Don’t miss!!! Check out the class video if you’re an At Home Pony!!
Please note that our upcoming Saturday 10/23 10:15AM PT class is ALSO LIVESTREAMED!!! Here’s the link to sign up for online! Our Zoom classes are *included* for all OOOBNA maxi-zine subscribers! This includes biweekly dance aerobics mixtape class as well weekly Exercising and Listening to Records class!
There will be NO CLASS next Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday due to Thanksgiving. Looking ahead, class will also be cancelled Dec. 25th, 27th and 28th.
Update: Saturday 2:45PM class at Pickle Factory will start 12/14! We will be at Pieter November 21 and December 7th for 10:15AM class.
Calling all Bay Area Ponies!!! Join longtime Pony, Emily Newfield, for a public event for Bay Area ponies and any Pony-curious people at @ourdancefloor in Albany this Saturday afternoon!!! Emily is hosting this dance event as a fundraiser for the @abortionfreedomfund! Emily says: “I’d love all the Bay Area ponies to come through if they can be in community and enjoy the tremendous fabulous sweaty AF November mixtape routine.“ 🖤🖤🖤
Please note that Emilia/team Pony will not be physically present and are not involved in this event - it’s hosted by Emily and the November mixtape video will be ~projected~ across time and space!! Make new friends, raise money for abortion access, listen to music, and do some fiercely noncompetitive dance aerobics 🖤 Sign up at ourdancefloor.com :)
One last thing! A little self promotion…I wanted to let the Ponies know just restocked On Our Backs Classifieds tees, a design my spouse and I ideated and started producing in fall 2022. The latest batch of these shirts was screenprinted (front and back) by Machine (who also makes amazing gay shirts) - continuing the legacy of queer and trans artists contributing to the existence of these tees. The shirts are printed with our selections of tender, hot personal ads and community classifieds published in the fall 1986 edition of On Our Backs magazine, which my partner got from a lesbian in LA “clearing clutter” in 2012. I use high-quality 100% cotton blanks because I want them to last forever and be an archival item that my grandkid rocks in the future! Ponies can take 15% off with code ACROSSTIMEANDSPACE. I’m also going to be adding a light blue version over the weekend if u prefer color!
Also fun Pony Sweat fact — the first time I engaged with this hxstorical material in a public-facing way was making this Pony Sweat IG post in Nov 2020! And yes of course this epic personal ad made it on the shirt!!!
You can also cop that discount on the comfy, locally-made pants Michella is wearing below! Today I got an email that said: “I am a curvier nonbinary person and these pants feel so affirming and just GOOD! ” Mission in life accomplished!! Ok that’s the END of my shameless plug, holiday season must be approaching efffff!!! PS I’m very flexible with returns and exchanges so never feel like you’re stuck with something u can’t wear <3 Bye!!!
Lots of love, Ponies! Can’t wait to dance with you soon. Will absolutely be spending the next week scheming (and angsting only slightly) about my December mixtape song nominations — join me! How does Emilia do this every month?!?!
xoxoxo
Isabel