Events › Queer Voices: Curators, Past and Present

Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) writers.

This program takes place at Quatrefoil Library. Join us during Pride month to celebrate the 32-year history of Queer Voices, a Twin Cities based LGBTQIA+ literary arts group that began with founding curators Andrea Jenkins and John Medeiros.

Current curators LM Brimmer and Sherrie Fernandez-Williams will join Jenkins and Medeiros in a discussion of their writing lives and share stories about how the queer literary community in Minnesota creates space for all voices across our big, beautiful and bold rainbow. Followed by Q&A. Collaborators: More Than a Single Story, Queer Voices and Quatrefoil Library. This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Andrea Jenkins is a soulful poet, educator, artist, respected historian and political powerhouse. In 2017 she became the 1st out Black Trans woman elected to public office in the United States.

John Medeiros is a poet, memoirist, and lawyer living in Minneapolis. He co-curated the Queer Voices Reading Series from 2005 to 2018.

LM Brimmer is an interdisciplinary artist living on Dakota land in Minneapolis, MN. A Randolph College MFA alumni, they are Artistic Director of Queer Voices of Minnesota.

Sherrie Fernandez-Williams is a Black, Queer writer who earned her MFA from Hamline University. Sherrie is Operation Director of Queer Voices.