Poets and teaching artists Ariana Brown and Alan Pelaez Lopez join forces in The Kindred Tour, offering a dual virtual performance with LibroMobile!

Combining Brown's 10-year-long spoken word and teaching career and Pelaez Lopez's 10 years of organizing with Black and queer migrants, this tour creates an interactive experience that addresses the joyful and traumatic conditions of the Black child in the U.S.; imagines Black queer futures outside of state-sanctioned violence; and offers concrete tools to help individuals and their communities rethink how we offer and accept care from one another.

This joint event echoes Brown’s sentiment that “I have never needed heaven, just Black people,” and Pelaez Lopez’s notion that “we create abundance where we thought there was none.”

About the Poets:

Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet from the Southside of San Antonio, TX. She is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion and the…