Freedom Writers: LGBT/SGL People of Color Resources

Book of Daniel - Austin, Texas

2005-04-18T12:33:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: sharon bridgforth 512.472-2001 ext. 106 or
sharon@sharonbridgforth.comALLGO| 701 Tillery Street, Box 4 Austin, TX
78702 http://www.allgo.org

ALLGO'S CULTURAL ARTS PROGRAM AND
THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES (U.T. AUSTIN) PRESENTS:

The Book Of Daniel
Performed by Daniel Alexander Jones and Kitundu
April 24-27 8PM
AT ALLGO'S TILLERY STREET THEATRE
701 Tillery St | Austin, TX 78702
Pay What You Can

ALSO:
Friday, April 22nd
Center for African and African American Studies
Diaspora Talk with Daniel Alexander Jones/Dr. Edmund T. Gordon/Kitundu
Location: U.T. Campus Winship Bldg. Rm. 2.112
Time: 3:30-5:30 (Free)

The Sakia Gunn Film Project Needs You!

2005-03-04T11:24:00.000-08:00

Sakia Gunn. A life cut short by homophobic violence.

Fundraiser for
The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Sunday March 20th at 3:00pm.
Langston's 1027 Atlantic Avenue
[Near Franklin Avenue]
$15
Food, Fun and Dancing!
Screen starts promptly at 4:56pm.

Hey folks,

Let's come out and support this project. I know we only have a few dollars to spend, but for $15 it can make the difference in this film being produced. Think about the investment. To see a film produced about the tragic death of Sakia is a small price to pay when you compare it with the value of her life - priceless.

I have had several conversations with people who decry the lack of unity in the black LGBT/SGL community. We have no this or that, they say. We don't stick together, they say. Well, here's an opportunity to help birth something beautiful, something that will hopefully remind us of our humanity, of our struggle to simply have our stories told. This young black lesbian's death went virtually unnoticed by popular media, and in the wake of Matthew Shepard's murder, she was almost erased completely.

Why? Only you can answer that question because we are all culpable.

See, Sakia's life will not be erased. Chas. Brack, Executive Producer of the film, has a vision, and I plan to support it. He sees value in Sakia's life, indeed, in our lives as black LGBT/SGL people. So do I. In fact there are hundreds of us, doing the work everyday to show our communities just how much we value black LGBT/SGL life.

How do you stand in relationship to this work?

So the next time you hear someone talking about how black LGBT/SGL people don't stick together, ask them how they contribute to the community. I can personally name dozens of organizations, conferences, film projects in the works, publishing houses, pride organizations, etc., that need help, financial or otherwise.

Fuck being a whiner or a uninformed critic about the state of black LGBT/SGL people. There is a lot going on.

Plug in.

A few words from Chas. Brack:

Please join us for this fundraising event towards the completion of this important film. And, meet and talk with the filmmakers! To find out more about the project, visit our website at www.sakiagunnfilmproject.com.

Don’t forget to stop by our “Contributions Page” to learn how to make your 100% tax deductible contribution to the project. Also at this event, see bonus footage by filmmaker Chas. B. Brack

Chas. B. Brack
Executive Producer/Director
Sakia Gunn Film Project

DOROTHY RANDALL GRAY FEATURED AT THE WORLD STAGE

2005-02-23T17:58:00.000-08:00

Dorothy Randall Gray feat at the World Stage
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:30 PM
4344 Degnan Blvd, LA 90008
(one block east of Crenshaw, north of Vernon between 43rd Place & 43rd
Street)
Free and ample parking

Best-selling author of Soul Between The Lines, poet and motivational speaker, Dorothy Randall Gray will be the featured reader at the internationally acclaimed World Stage.

From Brooklyn to Bombay, Napa Valley to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Dorothy's reading and performances have been featured on radio and television, at universities and cultural centers throughout the world. She is a former Poet-in-Residence at Hunter College, NPR commentator, and New York University faculty member, columnist for NiaOnline and literary consultant to the United Nations.

Contributor to Best Black Women's Erotica, SisterFire, Drum Voices, the NY Times, Essence, Personal Journaling, San Gabriel Quarterly Review, Conditions and several other anthologies, Dorothy is also author of Muse Blues, The Passion Collection, Woman, Family, Rituals for Creative Living, and A Taste of Tamarindo.

She has facilitated creative writing workshops, self-improvement seminars and healing ceremonies for the National Writers Union, PEN America, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon Institute, the International Women's Writing Guild and the Open Center. Dorothy has shared the dais with the Dalai Lama, danced with James Baldwin. _DRGheartland@aol.com_ (mailto:DRGheartland@aol.com)

Wednesdays at The World Stage ANANSI WRITERS WORKSHOP is the Wednesday night place to be. This three-part night begins with a critique segment for writers seeking feedback followed by a featured reading and a "no b.s." open mic where ten readers present polished work (five minutes or two poems, whichever comes first). $5. Free parking.

Wednesdays, 7:30-10:30 pm.
The World Stage, 4344 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles 90008; 323.293.2451;
www.theworldstage.org/lit.html.

Yvonne Etaghene Goes on Tour and Needs Your Help!

2005-02-23T17:47:00.000-08:00

greetings & blessings, extending prayers of love & bliss your way…this is yvonne and if you are on this list you are fam to me. we may have went to school together, you may’ve seen me perform or vice versa, or we may be on the same list serv, however we met, I’m emailing you to let you know I’m launchin a cross country tour this spring--I will be slammin poetree from coast to coast and am currently booking dates. (visit my www.writeordie.com to put a name to the email)

this is independent, underground, guerilla art, which means it womanifests thru sweat, prayer and by way of the love of fam like you. what I’m looking for from you is contacts from wherever you’re at, have been or are familiar with (in the u.s. and beyond): I want to know about the poetry venues, theaters, community centers, community organizations, public/private/charter schools, colleges and universities, coffee houses, artist collectives, performance lounges, and any sort of space that you know of that might be receptive to my fire breathin words. I want to know about spots where I can feature, hit up an open mic or work with some folks to organize a performance. whatever space you know of please holla at me with as much info as you
have (contact person, phone #, website, address, etc.) if you’d be willing to host a slam at your home let me know and we can hook that up. if you don’t personally know of a space but know someone who might, their info would be greatly appreciated.

whatever city you’re in, if you’re down to let me crash with you while I’m in your city, pleeze let me know. I ask that you please send positive energy and prayers my way so that together we can make this happen.

my spirit is telling me to travel with these words goddess has put inside me and so that is what I’ma do, but it’s people like you that make it possible. for those of you that have already reached out, thank you so much!!! I hope to see all your faces soon and I thank you in advance in your help in making these visions womanifest.

cell: 215.681.6334 please direct your emails to afrocrowndiva@yahoo.com. call/email me whenever.

tour’s purpose & mission: thru out this tour yvonne (a fierce femme Nigerian poet) will use her words to chisel a verbal sculpture of her soul, while speaking about race, class, gender, sexuality, women’s empowerment, war, imperialism, materialism, love, self esteem & family …the set of pieces she performs will vary in length and subject matter depending on the needs of the venue but no matter the space her voice screams & whispers uncomfortable truths and familiar wisdoms, weaving verses that detail the delicacy and resilience of our collective humanities.

spittin lullabies to soothe and anthems to motivate, yvonne is on a mission to plug her art into ongoing social justice movements thru out the country and world to lend her voice towards the progression of those movements.

*yvonne*

"…who and how we love
is just as political
as every penny spent on war..."

yvonne o. etaghene
aka I AM MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER

poetess, freedom fighter, actress, playwright, dancer

www.writeordie.com

Call for Submissions - Think Again 2

2005-02-15T06:01:00.000-08:00

Writers, start your keyboards...vroom, vroom!

Call for Submissions - Think Again 2

Published by the New York State Black Gay Network, Institute for Gay Men’s Health (AIDS Project Los Angeles & Gay Men’s Health Crisis); Black AIDS Institute and The National Black Justice Coalition
Co-edited by Frank Leon Roberts and Marvin K. White

Submissions are currently being accepted for the second volume of the 2004 LAMBDA Literary Award-nominated anthology Think Again to be published by the New York State Black Gay Network, The Institute of Gay Men’s Health (a collaboration between AIDS Project Los Angeles and Gay Men’s Health Crisis), The Black AIDS Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition.

The first volume, which featured contributions by a diverse array of writers, critics and artists such as Roderick Ferguson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Tim’m T. West and Vincent Woodard, among others, attempted to re-think the relationship between black men and HIV/AIDS. It is through this "re-thinking" that new truths were told, old lies unearthed and the way forward made clear. A forum for black men practicing same-sex desire to hear and read one another's experiences was born; narratives were connected.

This new volume will speak in even greater volume to and from black gay men and black men who practice same-sex desire about the intersections of family and social value. In Think Again 2 our personal narratives, poetry and cultural criticism will speak to how black gay men and black gay men anchored in various communities of same sex desire, construct, are denied, and (re)imagine notions of kinship and belonging as well as the social value of their lives, practices, and performances in the age of the global AIDS pandemic. Think Again 2 will be a gathering of diasporic black voices, re-locating our (dis)located bodies, minds and spirits to these pages, the family album of our dreams. Think Again 2 will be a landmark conversation about same-sex marriage, the “down low” and black masculinities in the age of AIDS as well as the institutions of black cultural belonging (church, ‘home,' etc.) to which same sex desiring black men are often excluded.

Submit your stories about family, both your biological and your extended. Tell the story of how you got your name: gay, DL, SGL or Other. Answer the question "Are you family?" Is there/has there been/will there be "value" in identifying as gay or as being "family?" Tell the story of when you changed your name from one to the other. Speak to feeling like "The Other." Speak to constructing virtual and on-line family and how your electronic life is performed and played out. Speak to the exclusion of your life from your family's history. Speak to a literary lineage. Speak to fatherhood, yours and your fathers. Speak to your children, both biological and found. Speak to the media shaped masculinities that you choose from and the "hand-me-down"ness" of labels that just might not fit you. Tell your story of aging in or aging out of "the family." Speak to ‘staying in’ and ‘coming in’ rather than ‘coming out’ to black communities. Write to love and how your love is re-enforced or torn apart by the places where love is supposed to reside. Write about our lives' worth, our heart's worth, our mind’s worth.

Committed to reaching various and broad publics, we especially welcome submissions from those involved in activist and community based organizations; unofficial historians of black gay cultures, those that have "seen and heard it all", public health agencies targeting black men of diverse sexualities and their clients; writers from film, performance, and entertainment industries; ‘queer’ burgeoning and subcultures including cultures of hustling, public sex and “ballroom/house/club” and J-Sette cultures; black gay and black communities of same-sex desire outside of the U.S., including by not limited to London and Europe, Jamaica and the Caribbean, Africa and ‘Latin’ America, as well as those centered in traditional academic institutions.

The volume will be edited by Frank Leon Roberts, a young scholar, activist and editor of Brownstone Magazine based in New York City and Marvin K. White, former member of Pomo Afro Homos, co-founder of B/Glam, and author of the LAMBDA Literary-Award nominated collections of poetry Last Rights (Redbone Press) and Nothin’ Ugly Fly (Redbone Press), based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

All submissions should be single-spaced, copied in the text of the email and sent as an attachment to THINKAGAIN2@GMAIL.COM, and should not exceed 3,000 words. Please include a brief two to three line biographical sketch at the end of your submission. Do not attach jpeg, tif, or mpeg images with your work. Also, while we encourage narratives to be both poetic and critical, please do not send poetry (unless it is incorporated into your essay) or traditional academic essays (large blocked quotes, extensive footnotes, etc).

Submissions will be accepted for consideration until March 15th, 2005. Publication Date: JUNE 2005

One Tongue: Reginald Harris

2005-02-08T08:34:00.000-08:00

Reginald Harris, author of Ten Tongues.

Tell us about your writing process. When/how/why do you write?

To be honest I wish I HAD more of a formal process in terms of the "when, where, etc." of writing. Sadly I'm pretty much of a slacker, particularly when it comes to first drafts, and would much rather be doing almost anything else than getting that first pass at something down on the page.

I try to block out time in the evenings to work or do something even if its just sit in a chair and stare. You can imagine how successful that was during the holiday season! But I don’t get too upset about missing *a little* butt-in-chair time, because I am usually reading something that gives me ideas, or I encounter something every day that starts something flowing. I’m always writing notes to myself, things to work on later, so that when the time comes to sit down to work I’ve got all these little slips of paper to pull together and get started from.

I also tend to have a preference for leaving home and going off, usually to a college library, to work on the weekends: I pull a few ‘inspirational’ books off the shelves, sit in a carrel, and pretend to be a grad student. Those are usually the best times for me to work.

You’re writing’s been widely anthologized, Brown Sugar, Bum Rush the Page, Role Call, and Black Silk and in journals, 5 AM, African-American Review, and the James White Review. What have you published recently?

I’ve been very fortunate to have work appear in a variety of different places. Anthologies are great ways for someone starting out to get their work seen widely, and the 'lit mags' and poetry journals are pretty much the life blood of the more 'page-oriented' ('page' vs 'stage' as in slam poetry) writing.

The latest place where my work can be found is a poem in the new issue of Gargolye (#48) the huge (each issue is the size of an anthology) Washington DC-based semi-annual journal, and a story in Best Black Gay Erotica, edited by Darieck Scott for Cleis Press. The story originally appeared in an issue of POZ magazine, and I'm glad to see it find another home. Its a bouquet to friends and family I knew and loved who are no longer with us.

Share a little about your partner, Marcus.

Actually, I feel very lucky that he's put up with me for as long as he has. I'm sure I'm not the easiest person to live with...For some reason people can be very intimidated by him at first. I’m not sure why, neither is he. People think he’s "mean", when actually, he’s really a little teddy bear. Once people get to know us, they usually wind up being totally fascinated by him, and talk to him more than they do to me. Certainly he's a better conversationalist than I am!

Ten things all black same sex loving men and women should know about being in a relationship?

10! Gee, well, hmm…
1. Most people not in a relationship want to be in one, or at least think they do. They don’t realize that it’s a lot of work to deal with the same person day in and day out, and keep the relationship alive. The word 'partner' tends to be too ‘dry’ for most people when talking about who they’re with, but in some ways its accurate: it’s a job, it’s a dual commitment, it’s work.

2. I always keep remembering a line from an old Billy Joel song, “You may love them forever, you may love them forever, but you don’t have to like 'em all the time.” Want a "Perfect" relationship--get a goldfish.

3. Resign yourself to the fact that one day you will realize that you're imitating your parents, or mirroring the relationship the people who raised you had with their significant others. How could you not? People always tend to imitate what they see as children. Once you recognize this you have to decide what parts of that relationship you are mirroring do you want to keep, and what do you want to toss out.

4. You have to have a discussion about monogamy. A lot of people, and this is only going to increase with the advent of gay marriage, think to themselves "we’re together and we’re going to be monogamous," but never talk to their partners about it. This is a difficult conversation and you both have to be honest with each other and with yourself, but it has to be talked about: Are we going to be monogamous? If not, what are the ‘rules’ we’re going to follow. If we are, what do we do when people try to split us up (some people love sleeping with one or both haves of a couple), or offer themselves to both of us? I don’t think heterosexuals have this conversation (their loss) but we have to.

4a. Just because you're married doen't mean you're blind. You will still find yourself looking at other people, and other people will be looking at you. The two of you need to find ways to deal with that. (Just a personal aside here: from time to time I mention to Marcus, "Saw this guy today and thought of you...he's just your type...")

5. You’re in love, yeah well okay congratulations.... But do you LIKE the person? Can you imagine spending the entire day at home with them (and the whole time is NOT spent in bed, either)? You may be ablaze with desire now, but when those flames fade and what do you have then?

6. You may find yourself having more in common with straight married couples than with single gay people, single gay men in particular. Are you prepared to find yourself spending weekends at Target instead of in the club?

7. Recognize that a lot of the work in the relationship will be work you will do on yourself. Don’t think ‘I’ll change him,’ cause you won’t. HE won’t change, but you will.

8. It is not a bad thing to have friends from before you were together, or to make friends based on interests you don’t share with your partner. In fact, long term relationships do not equal 'social death' or shouldn't. Share things together but if you like something he can't stand, that's okay too.

9. To quote Pedro Almodovar "Talk to Her"...or Him. All the relationship books drone on and on about 'communication', and it's true. You've got to talk to each other (even if it seems sometimes that you can read each others minds)

10. Vacations. I'm a firm believer in getting away. There are probably going to be pressures in the relationship and stress, and going away to the beach or the mountains or just out of town or to a hotel for the weekend could work wonders. And a brief time away from each other occasionally may not be a bad idea either. Absence IS supposed to make the heart grow fonder....

You published your first book of poetry, Ten Tongues, Feb 2003. What is your relationship to the book now that you’ve read from it, toured with it, and lived with it for over a year now?

It is still a strange experience for me to see my name in print anywhere. And to hold an entire book in my hands with my name on it…its still a little surreal. Having said that, it is a little odd to have this book, and have people have ‘expectations’ based on this previous work for what the next thing I put out will be. It sort of sets a standard, a bar that you either have to meet, or be willing to go off into a different direction from.

Since I can be very critical of my own work, it does surprise me that after all this time I don’t dislike anything in Ten Tongues. I haven’t yet had the experience of looking at something in there and saying, “Ugh!” I may claim to be tired of reading some of the poems, in there, but I also know I'm not being entirely truthful when I say that (and, just like an actor in a long-running play, it may be 'old' to me but it's 'new' to the people hearing it for the first time) On the other hand, it’s also interesting, and a reflection on the places where I’ve read, that there are poems in there that I really haven’t read very much after all this time. You have to judge the crowd and the space and decide what will work where and with whom.

How do poems come to you?

They sneak up on me whenever the heck the feel like it. They do not have a set time or place; they just spring up, like some wild animal attacking its prey.

Usually I find myself starting with an image that speaks to me, or to the way certain words fit together with each other, or how they clash. There’s something about the movement of the words themselves that really speaks to me, that makes me want to take them for a walk, or, rather, follow them, see where they are going to take me.

Besides being a poet, you occasionally publish articles as well. Journalism appears to be a growing interest of yours. What drives you to the page?

Well, you know I think at a certain point I just got tired of saying, ‘Someone ought to write about this,” or ‘This is a really great book, someone needs to tell people about it,” and decided to do it myself. A number of writers, Toni Morrison comes immediately to mind, have said similar things: They write the books they want to read. They didn't see them on the shelves, no one else seemed to be writing them, so they decided to write them themselves.

I’m not sure if this is cynical or not, but I don’t think most people outside our community gives a damn about the lives of black gay men (sadly not even enough black gay men give a damn about the lives of black gay men) to suddenly take us up as their cause. No one is going to swing in and save us, or take an interest in our work or what we do. There are a lot of writers, artists, etc. who fall through the cracks because not many people have written about them, or discussed their work. No one is going to do this for us: We have to do it ourselves. We have to create the spaces, texts, avenues for ourselves and stop waiting for someone outside to ‘discover’ us, so we can be the next ‘flavor of the month’ or something, or the new exotic tourist attraction.

Finish the sentence. The reason I write is because….

I feel bad when I don’t. Seriously, I feel physically awful when I haven't written something in a while. So I write in order to make myself feel good, to get this urge, compulsion out of me. Because if I didn’t I think it would fester and die and I’d be a really terribly sad and unfulfilled person. And who wants that?

Keith Boykin's "Beyond the Down Low" book signing 3 Feb 05 in NYC!

2005-02-03T08:54:00.000-08:00

Tonight is the first Manhattan book signing for Keith Boykin's new book, "Beyond The Down Low." He will be at Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem tonight (Thursday) at 6 p.m., and he could really use your support.

Even if you already have the book, stop by, and bring a friend. It makes a world of difference to publishers and bookstores when they see people are interested in a title.

Thursday, February 3, 2005 (6 p.m. E.S.T.)
Hue-Man Bookstore
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (between 124th and 125th)
New York, NY
212-665-7400

See Keith's website for more details!

Brownstone Magazine Call for Submissions

2005-02-01T09:40:00.000-08:00

OPEN CALL FOR BROWNSTONE FEBRUARY 2004 ISSUE
Deadline: IMMEDIATELY

Brownstone is currently accepting open submissions (2,000 words and less) for it’s latest issue to be released this month. The journal is looking for essays that follow in the tradition of the topics most often explored in its pages: cultures of race, gender, and sexuality as they relate to NYU, New York City and the diaspora. Check out the Brownstone website for examples of previous stories.

Especially welcome for this upcoming issue are stories on Hip Hop and identity; women of color at NYU; war and politics; queer subcultures; men of color in the NYU community and in New York City at large.

All submissions must be received immediately ( no later than Wednesday 1/2) in order to be considered for our February issue. Submissions received after that date will be considered for future issues.

To submit send us an email with a word document attachment at brownstonemagazine@gmail.com

CHECK OUT PREVIOUS BROWNSTONE ARTICLES:

HIP HOP LITERARI….ALL WRITE, AND THEN SOME

WHY I HATE MADONNA

A BLACK VAGINA MONOLOGUE

Le Mic Vient D’Afrique:

NOTES ON HIP HOP GRIOTS, BLACKNESS AND AFRO-FRENCH FLAVA

MY FIRST DATE WITH HIP HOP: POLITICS AND POETICS

FOR COLORED BOYS WHO’VE CONSIDERED THE DOWN LOW WHEN THE RAINBOW’S NOT ENUF

COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES

LOVE?

On the Lower Frequency: Jean Grae

NABJ Approves Lesbian and Gay Task Force Caucus

2005-01-28T22:00:00.000-08:00

NABJ Approves Gay Caucus, Members Achieve Long-Sought Recognition

The National Association of Black Journalists approved the creation of a Lesbian and Gay Task Force over the weekend, a milestone in efforts by black gay journalists to gain acceptance within the organization. NABJ becomes the first journalist of color organizations to recognize an internal gay group.

More about this story here.

To join the NABJ, go to their site.

Brother to Brother opens in DC this weekend - limited engagement

2005-01-28T21:54:00.000-08:00

Brother to Brother opens this Friday, Jan. 28, at Landmark's E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street NW. Filmmaker Rodney Evans will host Q&A sessions following the 7:30 and 9:35 p.m. showings on Friday, January 28th and Saturday, Jan 29th. Call 202-333-FILM for a full list of showtimes and to purchase advance tickets.

Two black LGBT/SGL events at NYU this weekend

2005-01-28T21:25:00.000-08:00

DANCING THE DOWN LOW? BLACKNESS, QUEERNESS, AND THE ‘NEXT’ GENERATION
A slam/showcase/conversation/ dialogue on contemporary Black politics as they relate to Black and Queer identities

Saturday, January 29th, 2005
2:30-3:30pm
Room 804
At the annual NYU Black Solidarity conference
Kimmel center for university life
Corner of West 4th Street and LaGuardia place
Free and open to the public

Panel/performers:
Tim’m T. West, author, Red Dirt Revival & founding member of Deep Dickollective
Yvonne O. Etaghene (“Yvie E.”), poet, dancer, and fierce femme Nigerian dyke
Michael Roberson, director, People of Color in Crisis (P.O.C.C.)
Letisha Seamans, writer, Brownstone Magazine
Adrian Austin, musician, 2004 alumnus NYU
Moderated by Frank Leon Roberts, editor-in-chief, Brownstone Magazine

and

One Love, Many Voices: Collective Expressions Against Homophobic Violence in Jamaica
A special fundraiser for Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG)

Please join NYU Office of Student Activities, Amnesty International OUTfront Program, NYU LGBT Student Services, and the Office for African American, Latino, and Asian American Student Services for a PUBLIC FORUM and NIGHT OF PERFORMANCES in support of the work being done by J-FLAG to address the horrific violence and discrimination against LGBT people in Jamaica
Monday, January 31, 2005
6-9 PM
NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, RM 914
60 Washington Square South (btwn Thompson and Laguardia)
Suggested Donation $5 (at the door) No one will be turned away!

Panel Speakers will include:
Karlene and Gareth
(last names withheld for privacy and protection), *J-FLAG
Shante Smalls, Amnesty International OUTfront Program
Colin Robinson, New York Black Gay Network

Performers will include:
Tim'm West
ButtahflySoul
Yvonne Etaghene
Claudia Alick
Ingrid Rivera

Supported by NYU Clive Davis School of Recorded Music, Caribbean Student Association, NAACP @ NYU, African Heritage Month, NYU Center for Gender & Sexuality, NYU Law School Center for Human Rights & Global Justice, and Queers for Economic Justice.

Welcome writers and event planners!

2005-01-27T01:00:00.000-08:00

Hey Freedom Writers,

Our love of the WORD and LIFE and COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT just moved into a HIGHER gear for 2005, for me and for you. For all of us.

Two months ago, writers extraordinaire Sharon Bridgforth and Marvin K. White and I talked about the possibility of creating a website that would list writers workshops, events, conferences, etc., specifically by/for/about LGBT/SGL people of color. Until that website comes along (maybe as a part of the Fire and Ink website?) we offer Freedom Writers: LGBT/SGL People of Color Resources. This blog will list announcements of workshops, events, readings, conferences, calls for submissions, interviews with writers, and contact information for freelance editors, graphic designers, artists, photographers, web designers, and other folks interested in the production of literature. You got something to broadcast, tell us. We want to help get the word out, pun intended.

This blog is for everyone who wants to know about, participates in and cares about LGBT/SGL people of color letters.

Contact Sharon at sharon@sharonbridgforth.com, Marvin at cptimed@aol.com, or Steven at steven@stevengfullwood.org to have your announcement posted on the site.

Do more, be more, live your life and remember that you have resources.
Sharon, Marvin and Steven