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Black Women’s & LGBTQ+ Literary Cultures in the City of Brotherly Love
Saturday, March 26, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Despite recent attention to Black Lives Matter, Black literary cultures and the voices of Black women and LGBTQ+ people rarely take center stage. As writers, teachers, organizers and cultural workers, we reflect on Philadelphia's rich Black feminist literary life. How do we center Black women, girls, and trans and nonbinary people in our writing and community work? We discuss nurturing Philly's Black feminist literary imaginaries and gather insights for cultural workers in other cities and beyond.
This virtual discussion room will take place live and will not be recorded for on-demand viewing.
Participants
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of Blue Talk and Love, The Poetics of Difference, and More of Everything (Norton/Liveright 2022). She has earned honors from Lambda Literary, the Center for Fiction, Bread Loaf, Yaddo, and the NEA. She is an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.
Yolanda Wisher is the author of Monk Eats an Afro. A Cave Canem and Pew Fellow, she was the third poet laureate of Philadelphia and works as the curator of spoken word at Philadelphia Contemporary.
Trapeta B. Mayson is the City of Philadelphia current poet laureate and a 2021 poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American Poets. She is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in Literature and Leeway Transformation Award, among others.
Jeannine A. Cook is a writer, educator, and curator. She is the shopkeeper at Harriett’s Bookshop in Philadelphia and Ida’s Bookshop in Collingswood, New Jersey.
