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PAFA Celebrates Pride Month |
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Pride month commemorates the June 1969 Stonewall Rebellion and the series of marches and parades organized by grassroots activists and community organizers. One of the earliest gay rights demonstrations in the United States took place 4 years before the Stonewall Rebellion when 39 members of gay rights organizations planned a rally to remind the public that basic rights of citizenship were being denied to the LGBTQIA+ community. Known as Annual Reminders, these demonstrations took place every year on July 4th at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. To date, only two presidents have declared June Pride Month: President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama. Since its inception gay pride events and parades have taken place in major cities around the world.
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Self-Care, According to Black Queer Social Justice Advocate
Everyday Health: Your work is all about promoting the well-being of others. How do you promote the well-being of yourself at the same time? CBT: I learned pretty early on in my career that taking care of myself was going to be important.
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www.everydayhealth.com
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Examples of Cooperative Self-Care:
– Femmes to the Front: Care centered events that include scholarship options and accessibility support
– Transgiving and Queersmas: Creating safe and supportive spaces during hard times
– Queer Clothing Swap: Clean out closets and welcome ALL bodies to find clothes that work for them without judgments about size or gender expression.
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Why Young Queer Artists Are Trading Anguish for Joy
A generation of painters who came of age after the height of the AIDS crisis are focusing on romance, domesticity, and the pleasures of the everyday.
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www.artsy.net
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Source: Data from Center for American Progress 2020 Survey & HRC Healthcare Equality Index, 2020
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Cooperative self-care is a community-led movement that empowers individuals to be willing participants in their own health care process. In practice, this means creating impactful ways to come together, support each other, pool resources, and build cooperative capacity that supports you and your community.
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Source: The Gender Spectrum Collection
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Self-Care Reflection Questions:
- What's a morning habit that builds me each day?
- How do you find new hobbies & interests?
- What is one thing that's bringing you joy today?
- What is the value of having an inner safe space?
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Queer: Designer Charles Jeffrey Talks on Queer Community, Self-Reflection and Safe Spaces |
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How Six LGBTQ Artists Feel About the Business of Being Queer
In the age of Gay, Inc., queer artists have to negotiate not just how to be gay but how to sell gay. Shura, Hayley Kiyoko, Shamir, Jamie Stewart, G Flip, and Madame Gandhi on coming out to their labels and how they've seen their queerness marketed.
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www.vulture.com
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5 History-Making Queer Activists on What We’re Fighting For
Phillipe Cunningham, Andrea Jenkins, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Cynthia Nixon, and Chase Strangio.
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www.them.us
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Many believe that a revolution is unfolding in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. Do you agree? Why or why not?
"Yes, I think we are in the midst of a revolution — one that has been centuries in the making. It’s happening not just because of the striking of the match of Floyd’s murder, but years of organizing on the part of Black Lives Matter, which came on the shoulders of hundreds of years of fighting back. Something has been unleashed; a door has been opened that must not be shut. We’ve been waiting for this moment. We can’t let it evaporate."
-- Cynthia Nixon
What was your reaction to the Supreme Court’s Title VII ruling?
"When I woke up that Monday morning and heard the news, I was elated. I have been advocating for this outcome for almost 30 years. However, we still need Congress to pass the Equality Act, which protects LGBTQIA+ folks in public accommodations, housing, healthcare facilities, and more. Let me be clear. I know that laws alone don’t change hearts and minds. That’s culture work, which is why I use poetry and art as an integral part of my activism and advocacy."
-- Andrea Jenkins
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PAFA Celebrates Juneteenth |
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The Juneteenth Institute at MICA
In this 5-part workshop series, The Space for Creative Black Imagination offers an opportunity for participants to reflectively revisit and critically think, together, the historic ruptures of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, and the 1865 Juneteenth origin story.
In the intimate context of these workshop gatherings we hope to both commemorate Black lives relegated to the worlds of racial slavery, apartheid, and white supremacy, and reaffirm (& reimagine) the possibilities of Black Freedom/Black Time.
In each workshop, a group of invited guests will present an object of their choosing - an ornament, artwork, film, song, or text - and reflect on the ways in which it animates key concepts or practices they associate with these histories of struggle, loss, and aspiration, and their resonance in the present. These interactive sessions will call for active participation and discussion in an affirming community context.
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"In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation had declared all enslaved people in the rebelling states free. Because Union forces did not control Texas at that time, the Proclamation had no practical effect in that state until Union General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston on June 19, 1865, and read the order. In Texas, June 19 came to be known as Juneteenth, on which day African Americans celebrated their freedom." -- Juneteenth.com
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Free and Open to the Public
Celebrate the history, culture, and legacy of Juneteenth with the African American Museum of Philadelphia at its Juneteenth Block Party. In partnership with Wawa and Welcome America, AAMP will host a daylong, family-friendly outdoor festival that features a rich lineup of the region's best and brightest creative luminaries. Guests will enjoy live performances from international and local artists, a community marketplace featuring Black-owned businesses, vendors, community partners, and food trucks, and hands-on activities including art-making, line dancing, and more!
Courtesy of Wawa, AAMP will also offer FREE admission to the Museum with online registration.
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Caribbean American Heritage Month |
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Caribbean American Heritage Month was formally recognized in 1999 with a petition to President Bill Clinton. But celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month did not start until the Institute of Caribbean Studies began holding festivals in Washington DC in 2000. |
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Island SPACE Caribbean Museum in Florida
The Island SPACE Caribbean Museum is an archive, exhibit and event space in Plantation, Florida featuring a collection of artifacts, iconic paraphernalia, cultural relics and historical data and fine art representing South Florida’s Caribbean communities. Inside the facility, guests learn the story of the history, heritage and culture of the Caribbean people and the impact of the Caribbean Diaspora on the American landscape. Our mission at Island SPACE is to elevate the profile of Caribbean art, history, and culture in every form throughout South Florida and the broader diaspora.
The goal of the Museum is to establish a one-of-a-kind space to unify the fragmented Caribbean communities and celebrate the shared Caribbean experience while building a prestigious, well-respected attraction for visitors from around the world. Additionally, Island SPACE Caribbean Museum will preserve and promote history, culture, art and traditions, and engage multiple generations of Caribbean-Americans in the diaspora to learn about their ancestry and heritage. | Read More
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In 2020 the Island SPACE Caribbean Museum began raising funds to sponsor a Reggae documentary project. The Reggae documentary explores the island origins of reggae and its affiliated genres, how it has evolved, and how it has taken hold on the international music scene, in a story told by engaging voices in music.
The story will include broad themes around reggae and its derivative genres, as well as
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niche angles such as the impact of Rastafari, the dancehall, sound system and dub cultures, the challenges faced by Jamaicans in capitalizing on reggae’s global popularity, and how the music has been successfully appropriated by cultures from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and Africa. |
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Wawa Welcome America is Philadelphia’s premier July 4th festival, the largest July 4th celebration in America, and one of the largest free festivals in the country. Wawa Welcome America offers residents and visitors alike sixteen days of free, family-friendly programming across the city, with a focus on arts, culture, diversity, education, wellness, history, and performance. Festival attendees can enjoy free concerts, fireworks, complimentary museum access, Wawa Hoagie Day, and more!
In 2021, Wawa Welcome America expanded the festival to include a new slate of programming entitled “Freedom – Liberty,”
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in commemoration of Juneteenth. The expansion, in partnership with African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) and VISIT PHILADELPHIA®, has been designed by AAMP to provide education and awareness of Juneteenth, and to explore the historical significance of and thematic ties between these two important U.S. holidays.
Wawa Welcome America is committed to creating platforms to nurture diverse perspectives, raise diverse voices, and celebrate our nation’s evolving history through the lives, voices, and experiences of all Americans.
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Image: Violet Oakley (1874-1961), Helen Taylor, Pastel on gray paper, 18 x 11 in., Gift of the Violet Oakley Memorial Foundation, 2013.23.1.33 |
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Special Tour
Pride in PAFA's Collection
Join us for a guided tour that knits together works from PAFA's collection to explore gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ perspectives and communities. Led by Aylish O'Hare Barrows and Dennis Robinson, members of PAFA's Visitor Experience team, the tour will examine the work of a wide range of artists including Kehinde Wiley, Violet Oakley, and Cecilia Beaux, to name a few. Aylish and Dennis will highlight the queer networks and communities featured in our current exhibition, Women In Motion: 150 years of Women's Artistic Networks at PAFA.
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We challenge you to check PAFA’s Diversity Awareness Calendar monthly and attend monthly OISE sponsored events. The purpose of this calendar is to celebrate and raise awareness of religious obligations, ethnic and cultural festivities, and significant events that may affect students, colleagues, and friends in the PAFA community.
Being an ally for a S.A.F.E. Community at PAFA
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