? Inviting queer and trans creatives – writers, poets, musicians, thinkers ?
?️ Welcome your inner voice
? Express all aspects of yourself
? Share space with community

#speaQ, our queer, Trans, and intergenerational writing & sharing circle is back this month!

Want to make a statement, express solidarity, comment on current events… and have fun at the same time? Join Almah LaVon (@agentsubrosa) for a madcap collaborative poetry game, a mixed media word-experiment, and other writing exercises to get your creativity hopscotching and poplocking. Writer’s block to the chopping block!

Register at dreamsofhope.org/events or through our link in bio! See you Friday, April 19th from 4-6pm at Prototype PGH (Blumcraft building) — 460 Melwood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Almah Lavon (theyy/themme)
Almah LaVon is a neurQueer writer, mixed media maker, and fairy marsh monster. Theyy write creative nonfiction and short fiction engaging unfettered Black imagination and dreaming a new world many-petaled. Almah is a recipient of the Exposure Artists Program First-Time Grantee Award from The Pittsburgh Foundation. Theyy were selected for the global Orange Tangent Study grant in 2022. Theyy were also awarded the 2022 Fable Grant, an initiative led by the New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young, who wrote, “Almah’s groundbreaking & pioneering artist vision are exactly what the storytelling world needs.”