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Open Call for Non-Binary, QTBIPOC Artists/Activists | Deadline September 10, 2020

The virtual 2020 Melanin Pride III  Art Exhibition is a juried event curated for QTBIPOC visual artists. The exhibition will be held October 7 – 31, 2020.  Eligible entrants are selected to win grants (up to $1,000 USD)

Submissions are accepted through September 10, 2020 -- Submit proposals here.

Please note the 2020 Call for Visual Artists is Open Call is open to artists/activists of all ages, emerging and established. All mediums are accepted including, but not limited to, painting, sculpture, design, glass, metalwork, photography, video, performance, mixed media and installation art. The work can range from realism to surrealism to abstraction - there are no restrictions on style or context.

Each entrant is allotted up to three image/video submissions and three details for each. All images must be in .jpg/.png format and videos in .mov format.  

Contact Melanin Pride Festival to learn more about available opportunities and for questions or comments.

The Melanin Pride Festival is presented by the LOCS Collective. Established in 2012, The Lesbians of Color Symposium (LOCS) Collective, Inc is a non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to sustaining equitable and inclusive platforms and environments for lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (LBTQ+) identified women, non-binary black, indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) and our advocates.  More specifically, we provide community and cultivate resources through advocacy, education, programming and networking.

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Our hearts &prayers are w the victims of the#pulsenightclub massacre. #westandwithorlando#lovewins #guncontrolnow 

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#celezbration 2014 

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3rd Annual National #LGBTQ #Pride Soiree - Saturday , June 28th #Dorchester #Boston #NewEngland #solidarity 

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Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992

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gravyCAKE Productions unveils episode 2 of ‘i am QUEER in BROOKLYN,’ a web-based docu-series about the lives, passion and flair of queers living in Brooklyn, New York. This episode features indie songstress Adrienne Mack-Davis of Bushwick, Brooklyn.

 “The way people are ingesting entertainment is changing” says co-creator Alex Lloyd. “Creating a web-series promoting people of racial and sexual backgrounds that you wouldn’t normally see on network television is radical and freeing because you are maintaining creative control, thus shaping these images with authenticity.”

At the core, ‘i am QUEER in BROOKLYN’ follows those who are creating differently, loving enormously, living wildly or barely surviving, hustling, grinding, coming out, discovering themselves, taking chances, impacting, influencing and changing the world around them through their artistry, musicianship, fashioning and lifestyle. All participants sit comfortably under the LGBTAQ (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, allies/androgynous/asexual, queer) umbrella, embracing one or more terms; sometimes embracing none- which, as gravyCAKE defines it, is queer within itself.

  Follow gravyCAKE on twitter: @gravyCAKETV + Tumblr: gravycake.tumblr.com

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glennishamorgan covers the 2012 GLAAD Media Awards for Elixher.com.

Watch her speak with Kim Wayans, Russell Simmons, La La Anthony, Janet Mock, and more.

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Kit Yan talking about his brother, Edwin as his inspiration. Kit is a trans spoken word artist from Hawaii and part of queer band Good Asian Drivers.

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“QueenS” video directed by dreamhampton for THEESatisfaction. Inspired by Mickalene Thomas, of course. Cop the album here: www.subpop.com/artists/theesatisfaction

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Lesbians Po & Dice from LaLa’s Full Court life talk to the breakfast club (Angela Yee, Charlamagne tha God and DJ Envy) at Power 105 in new york. 

Peep some of the excerpts from the video below:

On being black lesbians out of the closet

Dice: I have a lot of people that will reach out to me like on Facebook or twitter telling me like ‘Yo, you just made it easier for me to come out to my family,” or “I look up  to you,” or they’ll hit me, “How can I come out to my family, I’m going through this or that, can you help me, give me words of encouragement.” So that’s definitely a great thing, if you could just reach out, especially to the young kids, cause you hear so much about bullying and all that, and I never experienced none of that, which I’m blessed I never had to.  I always had a supportive family, so that was good, but a lot of people don’t have that.

Dice On Why Women Are Better in Bed

What more to know what a woman likes than another woman and women take the time out to 4 play and all that and really get into it and guys just be rushin’ tryin’ to get theirs.

Dice on whether she uses strap ons (whoaaaa)

Angela Yee: Dice, do you use strap ons and everything?

Dice: Whatever they want mama, I’m here to please. You like it I love it.

Po to Angela Yee: I feel like you’re wondering.

Dice: I feel like the wheels are turning.

Charlamagne: Curiosity is gonna get ya cat licked Yee!

Po: I just know that face. I’ve seen that face. Thenthe next thing ya know I see ya comin’ out of Dice’s room, like “Hey,” “Good Morning Angela.”

Angela was wondering something serrrioussssss hahaha

Read more: Necole Bitchie.com 

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It's official ... the #2012LOCS was epic and HERstorical fersure! Meet the Chairs of the committee , (from Left to Right, Shaunya Thomas, Lateisha TJ Johnson, Tikesha Morgan). Congrates and Thank you Ladies! Stay Tuned...the Lesbians of Color Symposium Collective coming soon...

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Santigold just released the cover art for her new album “Master of My Make-Believe,” (Yesss MA’AMMMM!!) out May 1. For the picture, she hired the photographer Jason Schmidt to shoot her three ways: as attendants wearing custom bodysuits designed by Alexander Wang in what she calls “Bond-girl, gold of course!”; as a distinguished army officer in a painting by the artist Kehinde Wiley; and as a dominating mafia Don in the center — “Some sort of ruler in my own reality,” Santi calls it.

 Referencing the 18th-century British artist Joshua Reynolds’s painting of Banastre Tarleton titled “Portrait of an Officer,” Wiley’s depiction of Santi is, in fact, his first of a woman ever (up until this point his work has focused solely on African-American men, whom he places against vividly colorful and cartoonish floral backdrops).

More at T Magazine, and watch a behind the scenes video as well. 

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A look at African-American Trans Trailblazers by Monica Roberts 

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Season premiere of The Peculiar Kind. a monthly web series about queer women of color featuring Jade Foster (CereusArts.com), Ivette (Marimachobk.com), Milly (Lezfactor.com), and more!  The Peculiar Kind is directed by Alexis Casson and Mursi Layne (The Artchitects.com). The Peculiar Kind is a web series that candidly explores the lives and experiences of queer women of color with eye-opening and unscripted conversations.  Episode one of The Peculiar Kind explores “Party Etiquette” i.e. Jealousy, Flirting, One Night Stands, Using Protection, Getting Home Safely, & Hate Crimes.

  The Peculiar Kind can be viewed on www.youtube.com/ThePeculiarKind or www.ThePeculiarKind.com/episodes.

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