Black Voices In Conversation Virtual Event Highlights Modern Queer Storytellers

Encouraging the LGBTQ community to embrace reading and literature as art, ItsQwere presents Mighty Real: Black Voices In Conversation. On Sunday, November 7 at 12 p.m. PST, comedian Sampson McCormick will host the virtual event celebrating writers who expand social narratives through storytelling.

Mighty Real features a Q&A segment with Robert Jones, Jr., author of the highly-acclaimed New York Times bestseller, The Prophets. Futurist, poet, dyke, hip-hop feminist Porsha Olayiwola (i shimmer sometimes, too) will offer a show-stopping poetry set. Also joining the Black Voices In Conversation lineup is Morgan Rogers (Honey Girl), Brontez Purnell (100 Boyfriends), Randy James (Shifters), and Junauda Petrus (The Stars And The Blackness Between Them).

Ticket sales from Mighty Real: Black Voices In Conversation will benefit the Oakland LGBTQ Center, a uniquely all-inclusive LGBTQ community center led and founded by African Americans.

After Mighty Real, event attendees are invited to join virtual book club discussions during November about The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr. For information about Lil Nappy Book Club, visit our Book Club page.

In 2019, Mighty Real: A Queer Comedy Night raised nearly $1000 benefitting Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, and event partners included GLBT Historical Society, Plant Therapy, Radically Fit, and Code Tenderloin.

ItsQwere is an international conversation salon and event series highlighting Black people and people of color within the LGBTQ spectrum. Since 2018, ItsQwere has engaged communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York City, Paris, Bucharest, and Istanbul.

For more information, contact info@itsqwere.com or visit our About Us page.