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"A show about being black...and everything else." |
Black, And... focuses on the growing up of a queer black girl living in America. It goes through the highs and lows of discovering oneself and acquiring the tools to express that. It’s funny, and angry, and it pulls no punches. It tackles subjects like absent fathers, sexuality, gender, learning one's worth, body image, race, and many other crucial central ideas that arise in the lives of black queer girls all across the world.
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"Most importantly, I am black and magic."Jay Délise is a US/UK based poet and performer creating in the combined world of theatre, poetry, and storytelling. A native of the Jersey shore, her work lives in the universe of activism in the form of LBGTQIA+, black, female and female adjacent human empowerment.
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"I just want to sit in a room, and talk about black women for an hour."Black, And... was born out of a chapbook called Poems For Growing which focuses on the perils and good places that come with growing up queer and black in America. The poems chronicle many of the formative moments in the life of today's black girl, and uses feminist and political lenses to create a narrative in which we can understand these moments and their societal influences.
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