Fire & Ink IV conference requests your witness

Fire & Ink IV: Witness (October 8-11, 2015) will address the urgent question of what it means to bear witness as LGBTQ and SGL writers of African descent and heritage in the 21st century.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS (deadline for abstracts: February 15)

If you're interested in being part of the conversation at Fire & Ink IV: Witness, submit an abstract not exceeding 1,000 words by Sunday, February 15 to let us know what you're thinking and ensure priority consideration.

For complete information, click here to download the Call for Proposals.

ABOUT FIRE & INK

Fire & Ink, Incorporated is devoted to increasing the understanding, visibility and awareness of works of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and same gender loving writers of African descent and heritage. As part of our mission, Fire & Ink sponsors a writers' conference and we invite proposals for workshops and panel discussions from our communities' writers, teachers, thinkers and critics.

Go ahead. Act Out.

Act Out Class Helps Gay Actors Find Themselves Onstage

by Erik Piepenburg, The New York Times, December 12, 2010

Daniel Beaty: It Gets Better

Fire & Ink's call and response

Black LGBT publishing house Fire & Ink and MC Books publisher Michael Christopher offer a list of good resources for education and discussion:

Call and Response: The Black GLBT Literary Community Adds to the Dialogue on Bishop Eddie Long and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church

Documentary on New York's "aggressives"

The Aggressives 
A documentary by Daniel Peddle

Saturday, October 9, 8pm

BAAD!

Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

841 Baretto Street, 2nd Floor, Bronx
(Directions)

Admission: Free

This striking and illuminating documentary explores and exposes the subculture of New York lesbians living as "aggressives." Often mistaken for men, these women range from pretty tomboys to the blatantly butch, boldly creating their own identities outside of society's established sexual categories, and the film explores their impact on gender identity in the modern world.

See a review of The Aggressives here.

The screening will be followed by a community discussion. 

Click here to RSVP or call 718-842-5223.

They're carrying the word

RedBone Press and Vintage Entity Press are co-publishing the second edition of Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books for early fall 2010. If you have or know of a black LGBTQ/SGL book published since 2007, or an upcoming book to be published in 2010 (*it must already have an ISBN assigned*), please e-mail the following info to info@redbonepress.com by August 15, 2010:

Title of book
Author(s)/editor(s)
Publisher
Year of publication
ISBN
Genre

We'd like to make sure Carry the Word is as complete as possible. We've already got a long list of titles, and want to make sure we're not missing anything.

If you're unsure whether the book belongs in the bibliography, here's the info from the jacket copy:

"Carry the Word is a seminal reference work, featuring over 600 titles by and about black Same-Gender-Loving (SGL) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer-Identified (LGBTQ) writers and culture, as well as interviews and articles about black SGL authors."

Feel free to pass the info on, and thank you for your assistance!

Lisa C. Moore, publisher, RedBone Press
Steven G. Fullwood, publisher, Vintage Entity Press