Join Reading Queer & Lutze Segu for a Zoom-based creative writing workshop that re-imagines queer futures through the lens of crisis, social justice, and resilience.
Reading Queer Presents “Anything Else Under Heaven: A Writing Workshop” with poet Mia S. Willis
RSVP HERE Description: Poetry frequently offers glimpses of Black and queer joy in times of societal turmoil and uncertainty. As Black creators become increasingly essential to local and national movements for change, participants in this workshop will encounter the bop poetry form created by Afaa Michael Weaver at the Cave Canem…
Paris Is Still Burning: A Kick Off Event Featuring Queer Poets
Friday June 26th @ 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM EDT | RSVP HERE The Candela Literary Pride Festival opens on the hot and sultry virtual carpet with PARIS IS STILL BURNING, a reading featuring queer poets voicing work born out of protest and the queer experience. Virtual doors open at 7:30…
FREE EVENT: CAPTURING FIRE, Saturday June 20th, 2020
Jumpstart your writing with queer spoken word artist Regie Cabico.
I Am Not Your Negro
Join Magnolia Pictures, O Cinema and the Knight Foundation this Sunday in watching the Oscar-nominated documentary I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO for FREE and participate in a virtual town hall Monday evening to discuss what we all can do to make our communities more equitable. Let’s finally have a conversation…
Earth Day: 2 Events, 1 Day
MDC Live Arts and Reading Queer present a webinar with Miccosukee artist and activist Houston Cypress on writing a Land Acknowledgement. Click here to register for free and receive a link to the Webinar: Zoom Link. Land Acknowledgements are formal statements and public rituals that recognize and respect Indigenous Peoples as…
COVID-19 UPDATE: RQ SUSPENDS ALL COMMUNITY EVENTS THROUGH APRIL 30TH
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
Hailing from Lesbos, Greece, Eurydice is a multimedia artist, podcaster, journalist, educator, single Mom, & the author of 3 books & numerous stories & articles. She is currently at work on a memoir titled The Lesbian that tells the story of Lesbian women–a genealogy that spans from Sappho to her great grandmother to her grandmother to her mother to her–& of our Lesbian language; on a nonfiction book titled Speak Sex to Power; & on a novel retelling the story of Eurydice in her own words.
Breaking Binaries: A Writers Workshop led by Clayre Benzadón & Caitlin Andrews
Join Reading Queer, Clayre Benzadón & Caitlin Andrews for “Breaking Binaries”, a writing workshop that celebrates creative possibilities. RSVP here.
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…