This week’s featured guests are Julia Wallace of Queer Renaissance and Alexis Pauline Gumbs of BrokenBeautiful Press. They are the force behind A Queer Black Mobile HomeComing, a project to collect and amplify the social organizing herstories (1980’s and before) of black women who have been refusing the limits of heteronormativity and opening the world up by being themselves.
Out Loud & Proud IV
Curated and Hosted by Pandora Scooter
Friday, April 9 at 7:30
Gay, straight, queer, lesbian, bisexual—how do you identify? For this fourth annual gathering at NJPAC, some of the scene’s most provocative new hip-hop and spoken word artists (who collectively represent all orientations) come together to voice their views on one of life’s hottest topics: sexuality. This cutting-edge performance also incorporates an open forum for conversation. This performance contains adult/mature content and language. Part of NJPAC’s Alternate Routes Sacred Circle Café.
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Newark Is Burning:
From Cakewalk to Catwalk
Saturday, April 10 @ 7:30
Gender-bending balls have been a fixture of the underground social scene for nearly a century. These “Houses” parodied the fashion houses of haute couture and first gained mainstream attention with the 1990 documentary, Paris Is Burning. Now NJPAC gets a cat walk of its own. A part of Newark’s house culture since 1990, Fire Ball is sure to take NJPAC by storm with outrageous runway performances, fierce competition and an absolutely fabulous display of the audacity and love that resides in a community that’s doing a whole lot more than simply surviving. This performance contains adult/mature content and language.
This week’s featured guest is Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, a Nigerian dyke performance activist, poet, dancer, essayist, playwright and actress who was born with a mouth full of dynamite and sugarcane.
Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene
Lone Star marks the much anticipated return of singer/songwriter/artist Jomama Jones. The cd features all new music including Show Pony, Jomamasong, Endless Summertime, Open and many more. Love is woven through these lyrics/music–do your soul a favor and get yourself a copy.
This week’s featured guest is Angel Brown, founder of Queer Black CinemaTM–New York’s first and Only Black LGBTQ Monthly micro-cinema and Annual film festival.
Angel Brown
This week’s featured artist is musician and entrepreneur
e. Katrina Lewis
Our Firsts is an anthology of autobiographical short stories, novel excerpts, memoirs, erotic essays, and poetry by women of color who share their experiences of their firsts—their first kiss, their first sexual experience with another women, their first lesbian relationship, their first heartbreak, their first lesbian awakening, and the list goes on.
For more info and submission guidelines–check out Our Firsts.
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