[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Organized by Queens Museum, Caribbean Fairness Undertaking (CEP), and Photoville, “Stay Pridefully: Love and Resilience in Pandemics” is on view till June 30, 2023, at Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto Park in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York.
Proven at Brooklyn Bridge Park through the 2022 Photoville Competition, this exhibition is “the primary Photoville set up in Richmond Hill, house to largely Indo-Caribbean and South-Asian immigrant communities the place Caribbean Equality Undertaking is predicated.”
Description: Stay Pridefully: Love and Resilience in Pandemics is an interdisciplinary exhibition curated by Caribbean Equality Undertaking founder and government director Mohamed Q Amin. The exhibition celebrates queer and trans Caribbean resilience by means of a racial justice lens, whereas fostering important conversations associated to satisfaction, migration, surviving colliding pandemics, and popping out narratives. Caribbean diasporic immigrant rights, gender justice, and trans rights advocates dwell on the intersections of outdated immigration insurance policies, anti-Black violence, racism, homophobia, transphobia, gender-based violence, xenophobia, and misogyny in the US and all through the Caribbean area. Because the starting of the COVID-19 pandemic, queer and trans immigrants of shade have lived in a relentless state of worry and isolation, from meals insecurity, and a scarcity of entry to equitable healthcare, to rising charges of anti-Asian violence and police brutality towards Black individuals.
Stay Pridefully reimagines and affirms undocumented Black and Brown LGBTQ+ immigrants and asylum seekers as important employees, creatives, and contributors to the cultural range of New York Metropolis, by highlighting the work of seven activists and neighborhood members: Rajiv Mohabir, Qween Jean, Theo Brown, Tannuja Devi Rozario, Darren J. Glenn, Rohan Zhou-Lee, and Tiffany Jade Munroe.
Pictures by Christian Thane and visible path by Richard Ramsundar.
About Photoville:
Based in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air pictures competition in New York Metropolis, a variety of free instructional neighborhood initiatives, and a nationwide program of public artwork exhibitions. By activating public areas, amplifying visible storytellers, and creating distinctive and extremely progressive exhibition and programming environments, they be part of the reason for nurturing a brand new lens of illustration. By means of inventive partnerships with festivals, metropolis businesses, and different nonprofit organizations, Photoville affords visible storytellers, educators, and college students monetary help, mentorship, and promotional & manufacturing assets, on a variety of exhibition alternatives.
About Caribbean Equality Undertaking:
Caribbean Equality Undertaking (CEP) is a Queens, New York-based 501(c)3 non-profit group that empowers, strengthens, and represents the marginalized voices of black and brown, lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, and queer+ individuals of Caribbean origin and descent within the higher New York Metropolis space. The Caribbean Equality Undertaking’s mission is to serve the native LGBTQ+ Caribbean inhabitants by means of advocacy, neighborhood organizing, training, cultural, and social programming. Since being based in 2015, by Mohamed Q. Amin in response to anti-LGBTQ+ hate violence in Richmond Hill, CEP has been the one education-based company serving the Caribbean-American LGBTQ+ immigrant neighborhood within the higher New York Metropolis space and acts as a liaison between our most susceptible neighborhood members and authorities businesses and elected officers.
For extra info, see https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/live-pridefully-love-and-resilience-within-pandemics