Events By Quarter
Race Matters Series
Mouths of Rain: Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Briona Jones
Online
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought opens with, "Uses of the Erotic," to honor Audre Lorde's description of the erotic as an empowering creative energy and knowledge that creates space for our work, our loving, our language, and our dancing to breathe. We will explore erotic resonances through the voice of the Blues Woman, poet, and essayist, to map the various ways in which Black lesbian writings have constructed capacious hermeneutics of love.
Conscious Conversations Series
The Future is Black, The Future is Intersex
Sean Saifa Wall
Online
The concept of intersex justice is a response to the systemic conditions that harm intersex people. For Black people and people of color who are intersex, we contend with multiple identities that shape our relationship to the world, our friends and loved ones and even ourselves. This talk will explore the birth of intersex justice, the campaign to end intersex genital surgeries on infants and children and why this work is vital to our survival across communities.
Co-sponsors: RCSGD
Photo credit: Harry Daniels ATL
Cup of Culture
Rocks
Director: Sarah Gavron
Film Screening/Online
Starring Bukky Barkray as Olushola, nicknamed “Rocks”, as a black british teenage girl in London whose troubled single mother abandons her and her younger brother Emmanuel, forcing them to fend for themselves and try to avoid being taken into care by authorities, with the help of loyal friend Sumaya and others. Gavron enlists a mainly female crew, including cinematographer Helene Louvart, editor Maya Maffoli and composer Emilie Leveinsaise Farrouch, and their empathy for the vulnerable characters lives the film. 2019. 1 h 33 m. No post film discussion.
Spoken Word
More Than Organs: A Night of Poetry
Kay Ulanday Barrett
Online
Paying homage to audre lorde: “I do not believe in single-issue politics, because we do not live single-issue lives,” avenues of critical intersections as brown, poor, trans, im/migrant, Disabled, and “other” are explored. How do competition and respectability politics impose oppression in our actions, our lives? How do we embrace a politic that doesn’t isolate or accommodate, but engages everyday movements to show up for those who are affected & not talked about? How can we come to a place of honoring ourselves fully? You are invited to embrace a sexy, complicated, sacred, powerful, and amazing lineage. To Sick & Disabled Queer/Transgender Indigenous or People of Color (SDQTIPOC) daily survival!
Kay Ulanday Barrett (@brownroundboi) is a poet, performer, and cultural strategist; their collection More Than Organs received a 2021 Stonewall Book Honor Award and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Barrett has featured at NYU, Lincoln Center, the United Nations, Princeton, Harvard, and the Brooklyn Museum. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, them., NYLON, Vogue, Buzzfeed, The Advocate, The Rumpus, RaceForward, and more. Currently, they remix their mama's recipes in Jersey City with their jowly dog. www.kaybarrett.net.
[Description: A flyer with purple background and large organ photo overlayed by large yellow type "more than organs", including a photograph of Kay Ulanday Barrett, a brown round boi wearing glasses with short hair. They wear a gray tweed blazer. They perform on stage with one hand out while the other holds a microphone, in front of a rainbow & Transgender flag.]
ASL Interpretation provided
