How do we fellowship across/beyond geographies, genders, and languages to celebrate our blackness and uplift our communities? What are some of the stories we hold and share that make our resistance possible and to help us manifest more just futures? In this celebratory event, Black writers and educators join in conversation and offer readings that speak to the intimacies and possibilities of Black belonging and community across their Caribbean, Indigenous, and Latinx contexts.

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The Poets:

Alan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet, installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México. Their work attends to the quotidian realities of undocumented migrants in the United States, the Black condition in Latin America, and the intimate kinship units that trans and nonbinary people build in the face of violence.

Mercy Tullis-Bukhari is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer who is Bronx-bred Afro-Latinx, Honduran and Garifuna, of Jamaican descent. Mercy is a Callaloo Fellow, and obtained her MFA in Creative Writing from The College of New Rochelle. She was named one of the “8 Authors Being Afro-Latina Stories to the Forefront” by Remezcla Magazine and was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2016.

SA Smythe is a poet, translator, and assistant professor of Black European Cultural Studies, Contemporary Mediterranean Studies, and Black Trans Poetics at UCLA. They primarily write about Black belonging beyond borders.