COMMANDO

A San Francisco-based
collective of queer
and trans artists,
coming together together
to use the traditionally heteronormative vocabulary
of heavy metal, rap, and poetry
as a unified site
to aggressively celebrate queerness and dismantle hetero-patriarchy

COMMANDO is a project started by The Living Earth Show in 2016. The project facilitated the creation of a San Francisco-based collective of queer and trans artists, coming together together to use the traditionally heteronormative vocabulary of heavy metal, rap, and poetry as a unified site to aggressively celebrate queerness and dismantle hetero-patriarchy. The collective has presented numerous public performances in San Francisco and Oakland, and is working to create a recorded album of the collective’s work to be released nationally in 2021, with an accompanying nationwide tour.