basjia

I don’t even know where to start, honestly im still in disbelief! When I was you younger my mum used to collect Vogue and ultimately I become enamoured with magazines, I loved fashion, to me it was art and magazines were their museums. The models were always so beautiful and statuesque. However I never saw myself in them and whilst it was always so beautiful, it was a dream I truly never thought possible, a girl like me, I always thought I was too ugly to be a model. To be in a magazine let alone on a cover is something I just know my younger self is looking at in disbelief and complete pride! This one is for her, the younger me that just wanted to feel like she belonged, like she was beautiful, this one is for you bubba! This one is also for my community, for those who have believed in my, spoken life in to me and shown me love when my imposter syndrome hits! I’m so grateful to be surrounded by so much love and care! Vogue pride edition LFG!!!! This one is special, so many phenomenal voices and faces in this one, I highly recommend picking it up! Thank you angel @miguelurbinatan for always putting community on, and for such a beautiful edition! Thank you angel @joebrennarghh for photographing these beautiful shots and making us feel comfortable! @gillielove who always eats at the makeup!! My love @deeplyrootedhair who always has my braids looking right, and @_roryrice_ for styling them. A big thank you to my house father @xanderkhoury honesrly has shown me love and fatherly support I’ve never known and I don’t think I’d be anywhere without him always looking out for me. And also to my community and the friends who I call family for making me feel like I belong. I hope I’ve done the girlies proud ❤️ I’ve included some questions we were asked and my answers because they truly were some questions that meant a lot to me.

Sissy Ball 2019 was the first time I ever walked a ball, Sissy Ball 2020 was the first time I won my first Sex Siren GP, Sissy ball 2023 and to have won Sex Siren GP, I feel really honoured, to have walked for Icons and Legends, to have battled with an absolute top tier lineup of walkers, I’m thankful to be in these spaces, to be surrounded by family and friends, people who see eachother. I’m Thankful to those who created these spaces. Sissy Ball sex siren 2023 GP 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 For the the s/wrks past and present, the sex sirens who been walking, the newcomers changing it up, the femmes, the black girls, the lesbians, the chunky bodies and everything in between ✨ Thank you to @kiliatheestallion_ @rocky_stall0ne and @sydneymardigras for putting on the most Incredible ball, this one felt Really special in so many ways! Thank you to my partner @bossdembvt for helping me bring this vision to life. The reference is ‘From Dusk till Dawn’ (Salma Hayek) one of the hottest scenes I’ve seen in movie history. She helped research for the safest and sweetest way to make this possible! Thank you @kirsko_film_animals (Kirsten) for Candy the snake. I fell In love with Candy the moment we met, and wanted to make sure she was comfortable and also safe. Candy (all snakes) are deaf so she didn’t hear your screams but I’m grateful to have shared the stage with her, and for your help Kirsten prepping me and helping me learn how to work with Candy. Thank you @tracemi for help making this possible. Thank you @ya.ssi.ca for tailoring my bikini bottoms, they fit a dream! Thank you @transcending_reo and @reneelouise28 for these photos! Thank you my beautiful House of Silky, my parents @xanderkhoury @mirasia for always being the best family and support system I could ever dream. And thank you to Legend @newgenderwhodis these spaces, this community couldn’t have existed without you 💕

That 90’s and a lil 2000’s RnB type love (and make it gay) 🖤🤍 📷 @joebrennarghh

Diva 🪩 Full of so much love and gratitude to those who came to my 30th and the 2nd edition of @thep.yramid An appreciation for all those who helped, performed, contributed coming asap! For now, thank you @_mamacitxx and @sarzieeee for capturing these heavenly photos that just make me think how much my younger self would be so happy to see the woman she grew into. Feeling so beautiful and surrounded by so much love ❤️

Nectar 💦 Creative Direction by @annethupham @carlylim_makeup and Myself 📸 by @annethupham 💋 by @carlylim_makeup Tomorrow at The Pyramid I will be displaying a number of prints like this image and more, that will be available for purchase. The funds made from the prints sold will be evenly distributed towards fundraisers focused on aiding those affected by the genocides happening in Sudan, Congo and PNG. ❤️

Introducing @basjia, who will be joining us for the cast of Burlesque with Cervena Fox in Sydney! Basjia is a queer black artist residing on Gadigal Land. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose main focus is on movement. Her movement is rooted in expressing and sharing strength, power, joy and sensuality. Her art is about celebrating and elevating the black femme body, about unshaming it, and reclaiming its beauty in a colonised world. She has a strong focus on eroticism and self pleasure to remind you that woman's pleasure is sacred, she reclaims her sensual energy to create something both beautiful and freeing. Don't miss this unforgettable evening of tease, talent, and tantalizing performances that set the gold standard in burlesque entertainment. 📌 Sydney - Friday 3rd January - The Concourse Chatswood Featuring: @cervenafox, @evanadelune, @rubyslippers, @basjia, @porcelain_alice, @sinnflorescence, and @yvette_santos22. Tickets: www.edlstudios.com/events #burlesque #burlesqueshow #burlesquedance #burlesquesydney #whatsonsydney

It only seems fitting to finally post this full performance that I created and performed last year. I created this piece very soon after the (ongoing) Genocide on P4l3stine had been revealed to the rest of humanity. I created this piece because of the endless rage I felt and those who care as a collective felt that this could and is even happening. The rage I felt knowing that we were watching the brutality of colonisation play out in front of our eyes and that it feels so helpless to stop it. The rage all bipoc feel and are constantly told is too much, to aggressive, or unecessary. That we are not entitled to our rage but that those who colonise and kill are entitled. I created this piece out of the rage I felt watching people who are idolised and celebrated constantly whether it be celebrities, influencers or just people i know of not give a shit or say anything about what is happening. Or the sheep who just follow gvt rules. I created this piece on the rage I felt knowing a number of African countries have been destroyed by colonialism and that they too are experiencing multiple genocides, but these things are still kept quiet because racism is alive and well and has never ceased. I created it at the rage I feel on a daily basis knowing how unfair and unjust and cruel this world can be. At how women are constantly controlled and harmed and worse throughout the world and here on our soil whilst men face the most basic consequences of their actions. I created this out of the rage I felt of the big things that haunt my mind daily and the little things to. All the teeny micro aggressions and exclusions that I and people I know experience on the daily that ultimately are the building blocks that are the white ivory towers of fkn white supremacy. I created this because because rage is important and necessary and human, and not something only reserved for evil white men painting themselves as heroes whilst they destroy our earth. If I didn’t rage I’d truly go insane, my rage is not threatening or scary, it’s sacred, and I no longer wish to hide it for the comfort of those who take advantage 💚 Song: Pacer - Doechii Bikini: @highheels.com.au

It’s my 30th birthday today, and I’ve truly never felt more grateful for where I’m at in life and the journey I’ve gone through to be the person I am today. In these 30 years of life I’ve achieved so much, I’ve accomplished so many incredible things in my career and within the communities I exist in. But my biggest achievements have been loving, accepting myself and persevering through every stage of life I’ve lived. It hasn’t been an easy journey and if you knew me in my younger years you know how much I’ve changed and grown from someone who was so afraid, sad and unhappy with living in this skin. Im so proud of how far I’ve come and excited for how much more growth there will be in this next beautiful stage of life. I’m grateful to have done this life so far surrounded by so much love from the people around me, I couldn’t have done it without my love and my friends, I am merely their reflections. 30 and feeling beyond beautiful. Celebrating that with my annual birthday shoot, thank you @screenkate for capturing me so beautifully 🩷 Thank you my love @bossdembvt for your assist 🩷 Thank you @_shotbyjules for helping edit my hair in some shots 🩷

Another 1, thank you 🏆 GP FF BODY, 30 years young edition 💋 Haven’t walked body in a good couple of years, and really just wanted to walk for the ki. I’m 30 this week and I’ve never felt more proud, more settled, more in love with my body. So this one was purely to celebrate this moment in my life and to remind the kids that old bitches still got it 😛 But truuuuly this category was really special, seeing SO MANY beautiful bodies, so many black bodies, so many brown bodies of all shapes was an absolute dream. I haven’t seen it like this in Aus and I’m grateful to have shared it with the most beautiful bodies in the country, period. Congratulations to everyone who walked, especially all the female figures @hudathegoddess @itszarixo_ @victoriatuakimoana @homegirl_q @lady.t.yvette, miss silver, our bodies are often policed, criticised or shamed so being able to be free in our bodies I truly cherish and am in awe of that moment of celebration and liberation. ❤️ Included my LSS where god truly humbled me cos I was feeling so fkn sexy in my lil grey look and ofc god said hold on sweetie, lemme humble you real quick and pop this tissue on your shoe for this moment 😂 but tbh i just looked and felt so beautiful, nothing can take that away from me, not even that damn paper, so watch me work that mf tissue and make it sexy. Felt beautiful, looked beautiful, vibes were immaculate. Thank you @theehouseofcartier for a really wholesome ball 🫶🏽 Photos of me and @succubusmami by @victoriatuakimoana

My type is @basjia 😍 Also Guys, is this our first couple’s TikTok? Wait, should I return to TikTok? nah… should I? Nah… 👀

Honourable mention to this moment 🤩

Big News! I’m Very excited to announce I will be joining the HEADLINERS @headliners.burlesque tour as a guest performer. Honoured to be part of this fabulous lineup and be performing on Gadigal Land, Sydney. The show is: Sydney - 9th February @factory_theatre Going to create something special for this one 🖤🪽 Tickets on sale now, link in @headliners.burlesque bio