ItsQwere’s Mighty Real events reflect the energy of what’s current within our community. Still mostly quarantined inside this year, reading groups took on new popularity, and we started a book club. Keeping with the book theme, this year’s Mighty Real features award-winning authors and poets reading their works.

Mighty Real: Black Voices In Conversation is nearly one week away, and we’d be remiss to not rundown the moments that paved the way to our 2021 virtual event.

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*Promo illustration for Mighty Real 2018 by Aaron Gonzalez*

Our annual event started in November 2018 with the idea of hosting an intimate concert of queer BIPOC performers, a lighter-weight occasion than the pop-up conversation salons we’d been hosting. Dubbed Mighty Real: a live musiq event, the series was born at The Peppermint Club in West Hollywood, featuring singer-model-advocate Laith Ashley, LA-based songwriter and queer ally Karlina, and queer pop-synth duo TWINKIDS.

The following year, we took the festivities from Southern to Northern California.

Under the bullshit of America’s 45th president, our 2019 event begged to be a laugh. The Bay Area’s queerest funny-folk took the stage of San Francisco’s Piano Fight for Mighty Real: a comedy night. Benefitting Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, proceeds raised nearly $1000 and a fundraising bar was set for us.

Mighty Real: Black Voices In Conversation is virtual on Sunday, November 7 at 12 p.m. PST., benefitting Oakland LGBTQ Center and our majestic lineup of queer poets and authors. Grab a ticket, and tell a friend to do the same.

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