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FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OF QUEER BLACK HISTORY

This year's Black History Month program features Egyptian Pharaoh, Hatshepsut; big-hearted hustler Odessa Madre; Queen Nzinga, monarch of the Mbundu people; 19th century queer resistance pioneer, William Dorsey Swann; and Oshun, one of the most powerful of the Orisha gods.


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Members of Journey Writers, Inc. share what the group means to them and to their writing.

Excerpt from "Mama Thompson and Peanut" by Andre Keitt

      "They're back!" Mama Thompson said as she got up as fast as she could and grabbed the firecrackers she had kept hidden underneath her china cabinet. Squeezing quietly out of the back door, she reached up and unscrewed the bulb that lit the back porch. The entire backyard was blanketed in darkness. Then she picked up the floor mop and held it out like she was holding a gun.


      She heard the boys in the garden whispering,"there goes that old lady," she heard one of them say. "She got a gun," another boy whispered. Just then Mama Thompson took out some matches and lit the firecrackers, and quickly threw them over the trees in the garden. When the boys heard the popping, they screamed, "and she can shoot that thing too, run!"  ©

"The Future" by Regina Dyton

When I was a girl and used to think of killing myself, I didn't know yet


I didn't know you, hadn't seen or even envisioned you, much less your children and their children's children.


But now I know you and I'm so glad I didn't kill myself or die of cancer


How foolish I was, I thought I knew so much yet I had never even looked into a mirror and imagined my hair grey. Lord knows I didn't know of healing or redemption


Now I look at my grandchildren and imagine them old and as grandparents and smile

I feel the sun on my skin and think of how we go on and on. . ..lf we don't stop

And how each of us is burning planet

And that clouds do eventually blow by


Life is a long book, yet we read a few chapters and think we know the end

When you feel like giving up,

Think of preparing for grandparenthood, being the center of your family,

Carving the turkey for your son's son

Having him look up at you like you are the Statue of Liberty Holding up the family flame.


I love you son. 

2022 Annual Report

journey writer's grants and gifts

2022

$500 grant from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund in support of publishing an anthology of our members' work


$250 grant from Stanley Black & Decker to support "Journey Writers Tell the Whole Story:  Queer Black History - I Put a Spell on You"


$5100 grant from Connecticut Humanities, the statewide, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities


$7500 Small Agency Grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving


$5000 and $500 Grants from the Donor Advised Funds of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving


$1000 Supporting Arts Grant from the State of Connecticut

Connecticut Humanities Press Release

2021

$2000 grant from the Betty Knox Foundation to support “Word of the Month” on WQTQ-FM


$1000 grant from the Hartford Pride Committee to support three online programs for Hartford Pride Month

 

$100 gift from Kamora’s Cultural Corner to support three (3) online programs for Hartford Pride Month

2019

 $500 gift from New England Donor services to support the “I Love to Tell the Story” presentation

Ongoing

Thanks to the Center for Leadership & Justice, Hartford, the Free Center, Hartford and the Free Center, Middletown for allowing Journey Writers, Inc. to use their facilities.

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