FREE SCHOOL CLASSROOM
Take pride in what you read at The Queer Care Book Fair, a much-needed day of rest, joy, and prioritizing your mental health.
Here’s what you can expect: Books by queer authors A book signing + Q&A with Dr. Tony Keith Jr., an award-winning poet and the author of Knucklehead A self-care workshop with journaling + a stress test A Make-a-Basket workshop where you’ll make your own bookish care basket - picnic style! A love letter writing workshop where you’ll write a letter to yourself based on a prompt A raffle for a chance to win bookish goodies Fellow book lovin’ attendees AND MORE!!!! Sponsorship tickets available to support access to queer care.
Presented by @lazyandlit | Tickets available on lazyandlit.co
Dr. Tony Keith Jr. is an award-winning Black U.S. American gay poet, spoken word artist, and Hip-Hop educational leader from Washington DC. Or, you can just call him an “Ed Emcee”. He is the author of How the Boogeyman Became a Poet and Knucklehead, both published by Harper Collins. A multi-year fellow of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Tony has featured performances at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington National Cathedral, Historic Lincoln Theatre, Bus Boys & Poets, and in schools and communities around the world including South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago and many more.
His poem Black Man On Fire won first prize in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest and his performance of Code Switched is featured in the award-winning documentary series Talking Black in America and published in Centering Possibility in Black Education. Also, his poem Views For Damani is published in Poemhood: Our Black Revival - a YA poetry anthology about history, folklore and the Black experience.
Source: Tonykeithjr.com
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