Queer Black Joy Like Fire
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING: Four films about Black queer people making space, and taking it.
Building banjos from earth materials. Styling identity on Baltimore streets. Searching for permission to exist in your own hometown. Staging a heist against the luxury brands gentrifying your city.
This is QWOCMAP’s annual screening to celebrate Pride & Juneteenth, and always, it focuses on liberation. Especially at a time when queer & trans Black folx remind terror and empire on the daily that by the light of our fire we can clearly see what they are, and we are NOT impressed. When we need joy to keep our memories burning, to make sure we are fueled, to keep us warm, and ready ourselves for what we will see in flames.
The Films
Hannah Mayree: Songs of Reclamation
In Songs of Reclamation, a musician and community organizer reclaims the banjo’s Black roots, literally, by building banjos from scratch out of earth materials, continuing a land-based practice of their diasporic ancestors.
Damn Y’all Fine
Damn Y’all Fine follows Baltimore’s Black queer artists and activists as they style identity on their own terms, how the city shapes the way they express gender, sexuality, and self.
Budget Paradise
Budget Paradise follows Chester, a Black, nonbinary painter searching for space and permission to exist in their own hometown.
Rainbow Girls
In Rainbow Girls, a group of friends stage a heist targeting San Francisco’s most exclusive luxury brands as the tech boom gentrifies their city.
Community Partners
