Bebe Books continues its annual tradition with the release of the 2025 calendar. This year, we’ve joined forces with Melissa Mabesoone, who brought together an inspiring group of drag kings and drag queers from Belgium and the Netherlands to create something truly special.

This calendar is more than just dates—it’s a piece of living history, blending past, present, and future in celebration of drag culture. Featuring photography by Tom Berge and graphic design by Cloé Barbier, this edition is a visual treat you won’t want to miss.

With Pistache, Debutante K.I.N.G., Mama Tituba, Vinny von Vinci, Freeda Hole, Ernesto Coyote, Raoul Les Mécaniques, Dante Chaos, Cowboy Juicy, Enby Valent, Brad Titt, Chéri.e Chapstick.

Proudly supported by Kaaitheater, De Brakke Grond, and NW Aalst.


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Bebe Books 2024 Calendar is here!
For the 2024 edition, we collabrate with PrintRoom Rotterdam again and invite Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva. Masha writes  "This calendar is not my self-initiated project; the commission and the inspirational impulse to do it certainly came from Bebe Books. However, I accepted their offer without even thinking twice because some of the themes have always been interesting to me. The human body and the fluidity of gender and sexuality are certainly the central ones. I felt that I could experiment with them a lot in my drawings. I've decided to concentrate my attention on longing. Longing to connect with your own body, to play with it and pleasure it, which can come in a myriad of different ways and forms.

I was born and lived a considerable part of my life in Russia, where the ‘international LGBTQ+ movement’ (a ridiculous phrasing by the Russian government) has been officially banned since November 2023. Earlier, in July, gender changes were banned. So, this calendar is also a very political project for me. And it’s painful that, in this day and age, it has to be political."

Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva (she/her) is visual artist and illustrator, currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. What she does as a crossover of fine art and illustration. During her career, she worked both as an editorial, and commercial illustrator for publishing houses around the world and as an independent artist for galleries and museums. she is also teaching illustration at WdKA, Rotterdam.

• Riso Printed
  
• 3 colours
• 25 Euros

The project takes a stand on the domestic spaces: aiming to challenge the stigma around domesticity through a queer approach, it explores and tests ways of belonging in urban leftover spaces.

In a changing urban environment, the lines between public and private spaces are becoming less distinct. “Shifting Territories” invites a shared action to reconsider the notion of belonging and space. Using urban natural space as a mediator, we aim to explore the interactions that shape our sense of home, through a series of collective workshops and performative experiences

The event took place in two settings over two days, Saturday 26 August in Aalst and Sunday 27 August in Brussels. Shifting Territories is a project from a joint idea and venture of Every Island and Bebe Books: event programmation by Bebe Books, and installation design by Every Island. Below is a list of artists who performed both days in Aalst and Brussels.

Shifting Territories’ inhabitants:

Nixie, Eddy & Bobby
Cee Fülleman, Make your own lube
Prutsklub, Flower Pounding by Ruud van Moorleghem
Claire Stragier, The Birth of the Dendermaiden in two parts

“If you choose me as your president I will be one who desires to be overthrown again and again like how love has the ability to overthrow & shatte undo the lie that we are discrete individual separated from other discrete individuals”

Says our presidential candidate, Eddie. For this year's IDAHOT, we were invited by the Dutch Embassy in Belgium to celebrate 20 years of same-sex marriage. In response, we posed a question: "What do we want beyond legibility, beyond laws deciding which ways of being and loving are legal?" This led to a speculative presidential campaign where we raised our voices, chanted, sang, and danced around Eddie's speech.

_{Make-up
Friedl Verfroemel
Music
Winter Dieleman: trompet
Bernard Mestdagh: trombone
Robrecht Lasoen: sousafoon
Filipa Bettencourt: clarinet
Luís Melo: clarinet
Emma Amorim: clarinet
Photos
Alice Dooreman}