Conversations about race and gender.
A Live Streamed
Panel Series
For A Place Gallery, Orlando, Florida
The Project
A panel series organized in partnership with A Place Gallery (Orlando, Fl) tackling conversations around race, gender and sexuality. The events were public and live streamed, the highest attendance digital event in the gallery’s programming. The events attracted important conversations between community leaders in an attempt to unify the community in a healthy, radical dialogue.
After Pulse, Orlando was having some difficult conversations about race, gender and sexuality.
And the conversations reflected the perspectives of the (very straight, white and cis) Orlando community— from Millennials to the Boomer politicians. A Place Gallery, an organizing space of Orlando’s artists and independent organizers, lead by artist Vanessa Andrade, recognized a need for black, brown and queer lead community discourse. Though there was a lot of interest in the issues surrounding the Pulse shooting (racism, homophobia, transphobia), there was an equal amount of ignorance about the intersectional dynamics that shape public response. A group of creators was organized and given an open brief: do whatever you want. We decided to respond with a series of conversations designed for those who seek to understand how to be allies and build solutions to the problems, black, brown and queer people face but lack knowledge. We knew that there were certain questions that cis, hetero, white folk just didn’t want to ask for fear of showing their ignorance.
