Reading Queer is closely monitoring the news around COVID-19 and will suspend all community events through April 30th.
RQ Presents: QueerWrite Your Subversion with Eve Eurydice
QueerWrite Your Subversion! Transform Your Writing Practice with the Help of Queer Models Description: Queer writing is resistance writing & by necessity experimental in style. Queer identity is the future of gender: non-binary, non-normative, & non assimilative. The patriarchy has no space for us—no language, no morality, no gods, no…
#NotMyNeim with Elia Khalaf
11. 21st. 2019 | #NotMyNeim with Elia Khalaf DATE: NOVEMBER 21ST, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM LOCATION: MUSEUM OF ART AND DESIGN @ MDC (MOAD) @ 600 BISCAYNE BLVD, MIAMI, FL, 33132. Map here COST: FREE. Donations appreciated. Donate here. Description: #NotMyNeim with Elia Khalaf is a radical writing workshop & experience that highlights the power of names by reclaiming our queer and colorful names, one syllable at a time. The workshop takes…
“Burning The Veil” with Cathleen Chambless
Join Reading Queer for the launch of the 2019 – 2020 RQ Writing Academy Workshop Series with “Burning the Veil”…
“Stitch and Bitch:” A Creative Writing Workshop and Crochet Social Circle Led by Fabienne Josaphat & Jan Becker. No experience necessary.
DATE: APRIL 28TH, 2019 from11:00 AM to 2:00 PMLOCATION: DRAGONFLY THRIFT BOUTIQUE @3141 SW 8TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33135. MAP hereCOST: ALWAYS FREE. Donations appreciated. Donate to Reading Queer here. Donate to LEAP here. THIS WORKSHOP IS BROUGHT TO YOU IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LEAP. Get out your needles, pens, and…
Reading Queer Presents “Writing in Queer Spaces” with Freesia McKee
DATE: MARCH 24TH, 2019 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PMLOCATION: HISTORY MIAMI MUSEUM @ 101 W FLAGLER ST, MIAMI, FL 33130. MAP hereCOST: ALWAYS FREE. Donations appreciated. Donate here Queer individuals have always had to build their own havens and teach their own history, in remedying a society where division…
Write Your Surreal Memoir with Julie Marie Wade
DATE: FEBRUARY 2ND, 2019 from 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM LOCATION: ALASKA COFFEE ROASTING @ 13130 BISCAYNE BLVD, NORTH MIAMI, FL 33181. Map here. COST: ALWAYS FREE. Donations appreciated. Donate here Memories can be tender, funny, somber, or sometimes too saturated with color to be properly captured through the traditional…
Reading Queer Celebrates the New Year by Looking Back on 2018
With the holiday season over and the new year already begun, Reading Queer looks back on the projects put together thanks to our team, The Miami Foundation, The Knight Foundation, The Betsy Hotel – South Beach, The Miami Book Fair, FUNDarte, Anhinga Press, RQ individual donors, the LGBTQ+ community, the…
Start Your Year Motivated with Jan Becker’s Writing Boot Camp
DATE: JANUARY 19TH & 201TH, 2019 from 11:00 PM – 2:00 PM LOCATION: THE LIGHT BOX @ GOLDMAN WAREHOUSE @ 404 NW 26TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33127. Map here. COST: ALWAYS FREE. Donations appreciated. Donate here Start the year off queer and motivated with Reading Queer’s annual “‘Boot Camp for Queer Writers’ with Jan…
Reading Queer presents “The Shadow Self” with Cathleen Chambless
Reading Queer is excited to launch the 2018 – 2019 RQ Writing Academy with “The Shadow Self”, a creative writing workshop with Cathleen Chambless at The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse (Map) on Saturday, October 20th from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. “Reading Queer has been a unicorn’s breath of fresh air…