Come and experience Black queer Philadelphia’s literary history through voices of today’s Black queer community. In an evening of live readings and performance, members of Philadelphia’s Black queer community revive rare works by prolific Philadelphia writers Anita Cornwell and Adrian Stanford. Published in 1983, Anita Cornwell's Black Lesbian in White America was the first essay collection by a …

Black Queer Writers Remembered: Philly’s Black Queer Community Reads Anita Cornwell and Adrian Stanford Read More »

Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition closes with a performance by folk and soul singer Talie Cerin. Join us for an evening of music and stories connecting Black resistance in Haiti and Philadelphia. The concert will take place in the Skyline Room, but come early and take one last look at Chronicling Resistance with extended hours in the Dietrich Gallery. Solèy Midi, …

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Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition asserts that "what was lost can be found again in new poems, stories, songs, and dances." Like the Black queer Philadelphia creatives whose work is presented in the exhibition, Vernon Jordan, III's varied forms of creative expression offer ways to remember, re-envision, and amplify our stories. In the short narrative, afroqueer jazz film, One Magenta Afternoon, a young African American boy, …

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