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Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A 1993 Honors graduate of Bowdoin College and a graduate of Brown University, Glave traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica, where he studied Jamaican historiography and Caribbean intellectual and literary traditions. While in Jamaica, Glave worked on [...]
Have you heard about the Creating Change conference that’s coming to Dallas on February 3rd through 7th, 2010? Did you know you could play a part in welcoming people to our city and working with individuals on important issues to our community? Find out more about the Creating Change conference be visiting the [...]
Okay, so you say you haven’t purchased your tickets yet for Fire & Ink III:Cotillion in Austin, Texas, happening October 8-11, 2009? Well, you’re in luck because I’d just got word from the website that the discount rate which saves you $50 is extended through August 31, 2009!
Plus they’ve added a more extensive [...]
Many of the workshop descriptions and performances for this year’s Fire & Ink event in Austin, TX are now listed at the website. Billed as the “Writer’s Festival for GLBT people of African Descent”, workshops will be presented on writing for the media and screenwriting and well as finding poetic voice, developing radical voice, and [...]
With a blood clot behind his right eye, Chad Gibson is at home and he speaks to CBS 11 News reporter, Selena Hernandez, about the role he feels Ft. Worth Police still play in this raid of Rainbow Lounge in Ft. Worth on June 28, an event he is still unable to recall.
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This weekend, several individuals came to the 7A Ranch in Wimberly, TX, to learn about the historical and present work happening by and for queer people of color. This was my second year attending such an event produced by the statewide organization, allgo, based in Austin. It was a great time of rest [...]
Statewide Queer People of Color organization, allgo, is hosting the 2nd Annual Statewide Queer People of Color conference at the 7A Resort, 333 Wayside Drive, in Wimberly, TX. Here’s more from the organization’s website:
The Texas Queer People of Color Statewide Summit, is a gathering of individual and organizationally connected queer people of color [...]
Well, in a long line of “million”-themed marches (thanks, Farrakhan), a new coalition of activists from California and interested parties have teamed up to put together The Million Gay March on June 28, 2009, and organizers around the country are holding fundraising events for their local/regional march. The organizers of the Million Gay March [...]
