Please join us and welcome the author and poet as she shares from her highly acclaimed memoir, The Other Side Of Paradise and other powerful insights about joy, love, art, and justice emerging from her experience. She will also be discussing what it means to challenge homophobia across the Diaspora and how we build solidarity as Black and brown LGBTQ people around the world. Bear witness to a person who has fought to shape her life against all odds and to have her voice heard!

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"Staceyann Chin's memoir is a heartbreaking feat of unflinching memory and language. Set in a Jamaica far from the tourist brochures, The Other Side of Paradise is Chin's rich and nuanced story of family and abandonment, love and brutality, and a child's struggle to survive and find a home that will accept her. A remarkable young woman emerges, whose gift for poetry has been forged by poverty, religiosity, and a circle of adults who found the child in their care. This is A Portrait of the Artist written for our age. I love this book -- and I am completely hamstrung by the feelings it evokes." -- Walter Mosley

This program is presented in partnership with Black Unicorn: Library and Archives Project, Braddock Public Library, BOOM Concepts, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh, Dreams of Hope, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Legacy Arts Project and Ace Hotel. With the support of The Heinz Endowments, The Sprout Fund Grand Idea Grant, and The Pittsburgh Foundation.