Join us on Tuesday June 25 for a celebratory reading for PRIDE on our virtual stage! This year we are featuring our co-presenter Kay Ulanday Barrett, along with Anaïs Duplan, Jas Hammonds, Jubi Arriola-Headley, and Lamya H!

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Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, & A+ Napper. They are a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. They have attended residences at Tin House, Millay Arts, Baldwin For the Arts, Macondo, Baldwin for the Arts, and MacDowell. Their work has been published in The New York Times, Lit Hub, them., The Hopkins Review, The Rumpus, Vogue, Brevity, and more. Their book More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) was a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book and a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. For more info: Kaybarrett.net or @brownroundboi on social media.

Jas Hammonds (they/she) was raised in many cities and between the pages of many books. They have received support for their writing from the Highlights Foundation, Baldwin for the Arts and more. They are also a grateful recipient of the MacDowell James Baldwin Fellowship. Their bestselling debut novel, We Deserve Monuments, won the 2023 Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Her second novel, Thirsty, was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. She lives in New Jersey.

Lamya H is a former Lambda Literary Fellow whose writing has appeared in Vice, Salon, Autostraddle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and others. Her memoir, Hijab Butch Blues, was awarded a Stonewall Book Award and the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. They currently live in New York, with their partner and rambunctious toddler.

JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian, and the author of two collections of poems: ORIGINAL KINK (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Award, and his most recent, BOUND (Persea Books, 2024). He’s currently at work on a collection of essays, an excerpt of which received the 2023 First Pages Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Jubi lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands.

Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017). He is a professor of postcolonial literature at Bennington College, and has taught poetry at The New School, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College, amongst others.

As an independent curator, he has facilitated curatorial projects in Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and Reykjavík. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, and in 2021 received a Marian Goodman fellowship from Independent Curators International for his research on Black experimental documentary.

He is the recipient of the 2021 QUEER|ART|PRIZE for Recent Work, and a 2022 Whiting Award in Nonfiction. He was also awarded a Black Visionaries Award by Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum in 2022. In 2016, Duplan founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One.

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COMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY

This event will be streamed on Zoom Webinar. Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link via email in advance of the event. The event will be uploaded to the AAWW YouTube channel at a future date. This event will be streamed on Zoom Webinar. For other access needs, please contact msaleh@aaww.org. This event will be captioned and ASL Interpretation is provided by our friends at Pro Bono ASL.

At AAWW, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind, including but not limited to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, class or casteism, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith, or any action or assault against marginalized identities, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome, and will be asked to exit the space.

Event Image Description: The image is a promotional flyer or poster for an LGBTQ+ pride event titled “Celebrating Pride Showcase.” It features portraits of four individuals who will be showcased or performing at the event. In the top left is a portrait of Anaïs Duplan with curly dark hair, smiling warmly against a green nature background. Next to them is a portrait of Jasmye Hammonds with short dark curly hair, and glasses, wearing a black and white floral print shirt and gazing directly at the camera with a slight smile. Below is a portrait of Jubi Arriola-Headly, dressed in a black shirt, with a powerful, confident expression. In the bottom left is a portrait of Lamya H wearing a black hijab, from behind the sheer fabric. The event details are displayed prominently in the center, stating it will feature “Anais Duplan, Jas Hammonds, Lamya H., & Jubi Arriola Hable.” It is curated and hosted by Kay Ulanday Barrett, taking place on Tuesday, June 25th at 7 PM ET online, with auto-captioning and ASL provided. The background has a vibrant rainbow gradient, symbolizing LGBTQ+ pride, with colorful paint splatters adding an artistic flair. The Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) logo is displayed at the bottom.

Thank you to the incomparable team at Pro Bono ASL for providing interpretation for this event. Should you need ASL interpretation services for your own events, please email probonoasl@gmail.com.

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