IN THE PAST - FALL 2024
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IN THE PAST - FALL 2024 ☆
OuT iN tHe StAcKs
The Land Under Your Feet
crafting relationships with land & place; collectivity, place and queer community
In The Land Under Your Feet: crafting relationships with land, place, collectivity, and the Queer Community, Queer writers will share about the role of land and place as motivations for their writing craft. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we want to gather with intention, community, and (of course!) craft.
10/14
7 pM
At quAtrefOiL
Where Does Your Identity Live?
on identity, craft and queer embodiment
In Where Does Your Identity Live? On Identity Craft and Queer Embodiment, we explore the internal motivations that ignite queer writing and, specifically, craft-based relationships to embodiment from the Queer perspective.
10/07
7 pM
At quAtrefOiL
The Queer Home of Craft
a deconstructed creative panel
Join the expanded Queer Voices curatorial team in a deconstructed creative panel that builds community and kicks off our Out In The Stacks panels this Fall. This LGBTQ+ History Month, Queer Voices wants to explore the ways that Queer creatives in Minnesota craft our lives, our creative work and care for our voices.
9/30
7 pM
At quAtrefOiL
PaNeLISts:
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Ashembaga (Ashe) Jaafaru
she / her
Ashembaga (Ashe) Jaafaru is an actor + dancer, writer, artistic administrator, + creative/arts director. She has been involved in theatre + film + movement + voiceover work in the Twin Cities + beyond since 2009. Ashe creates art for liberation of the mind, body and SPIRIT + will continue to write + produce imaginative stories. -
Aegor Ray
he / him
Aegor Ray is a writer and organizer for the decriminalization of sex work in Minneapolis. He was a 2021 and 2022 Tin House Summer Program participant and a Lambda Literary Scholar. Aegor is writing his first novel. -
Davi Grey
they / she
Davi Gray is a queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, storyteller, artist, activist, and abolitionist. They live in North Minneapolis (Bde Óta Othúŋwe), on unceded lands of the Dakota and Ojibwe. Gray has work published in Poetry, Hayden's Ferry Review, Rogue Agent, NonBinary Review, and elsewhere. They can often be found performing around the Twin Cities. You can learn more about their work, including upcoming events, at davigray.com. -
Carson Faust
he / him / esenv'
Carson is the debut author of If the Dead Belong Here, forthcoming from Viking. He is two-spirit and an enrolled member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina. His writing has received support from fellowships, residencies, and grants through the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.
PC: Jaida Grey Eagle -
Tarik Dobbs
طارق دبس
Tarik (IPA: /tɐʼɾIʜk ˈdɑbz/) (b. 1997, Dearborn, MI) is a writer and artist. Dobbs is assistant professor of English in creative writing (poetry) at Southwest Minnesota State University. The debut poetry collections by Dobbs, Nazar Boy (2024) and Dearbornistan (2026), are from Haymarket Books. Alongside indigenous peoples at home and around the globe, they urge you to spotlight and support the people of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen, in their collective struggle for liberation. -
Halee Kirkwood
they / them
Halee is a poet and teaching artist from the western Gitchigami region now living in Minneapolis. They were an inaugural and returning IN-NA-PO fellow in 2022 and 2023. They are a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board grant recipient. Kirkwood was the winner of the James Welch Poetry Prize, published with Poetry Northwest. Their work can be found in Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, The Thunderbird Review, Seneca Review, Gulf Coast Journal and others. They are a first generation direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.
PC: Carla Rodriguez
This work is funded in part by MHC with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008
OuR PhotOGrApHeR
Wordsworth M. Musinguzi is a Black Trans first-generation Ugandan-Liberian American image-maker, visual artist, cultural organizer, and educator based in Minneapolis, MN. He earned a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science from Rutgers University in 2013. His visual artist and archival practices include analog and digital photography, web design, publications, installations, workshops, artist talks and panels. He has exhibited and published locally and nationally on his work documenting intergenerational social movements and subculture in the U.S. He is a member of Burn Something Collective, co-lead of BOI TOY Studio and co-founder of The Brass Strap Cooperative.
mEeT oUr HOstS
QuaTreFoil liBraRY
Quatrefoil Library is a member-supported, 501 non-profit library and community center for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. It is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where it was founded by David Irwin and Dick Hewetson in 1983.
Quatrefoil Library is a community center that cultivates the free exchange of ideas and makes accessible LGBTQ+ materials for education and inspiration.
