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32nd Street Stage
On 32nd St., next to Greenmount Avenue.
Saturday, September 19th
10:00 am
Drag Story Hour, featuring Chanel Janaé Chloè and Jesus Vice
Jesus Vice
Chanel Janaé Chloè
11:00 am
Stories Begin Here: A conversation with derrick adams, D. Watkins and Lawrence Burney
Derrick Adams
D. Watkins
Lawrence Burney
12:00 pm
Kim Phillips-Fein presents “COUNTRY OF LORDS” IN CONVERSATION W/LESTER SPENCE
Kim Phillips-Fein
Lester Spence
1:00 pm
Mark Anthony Neal presents “Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood” in conversation w/Jessica Marie Johnson
Mark Anthony Neal
Jessica Marie Johnson
2:00 pm
Susan Stryker presents “Changing Gender” in conversation w/Jamie Grace Alexander
Susan Stryker
Jamie Grace Alexander
3:00 pm
Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents “Primary: AFTER AND WITH ALMA THOMAS” in Conversation w/Joël Diaz
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Joël Diaz
4:00 pm
Sheree Renee Thomas presents “Ring Shout on Saturn” & “The Tongue I Dream In” in conversation w/B. Sharise Moore, Nadine Finigan-Carr & Lawrence Brown
Sheree Renee Thomas
B. Sharise Moore
Lawrence Brown
Nadine Finigan-Carr
5:00 pm
Ibram X. Kendi presents “Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age” in conversation w/D. Watkins
Ibram X. Kendi
D. Watkins
6:15 pm
DewMore Baltimore Presents marcellus vinson, baltimore’s youth poet laureate
Marcellus Vinson
DewMore Baltimore
7:00 pm
Laverne Cox presents “Transcendent,” in conversation with dr. Melanie Bryant
Laverne Cox
Melanie Bryant
Sunday, September 20th
11:00 am
Becca Rea-Tucker presents “The Abortion Companion” w/the Abortion Fund of Maryland
Becca Rea-Tucker
12:00 pm
Molly Crabapple presents “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund” in conversation w/Margaret Killjoy
Molly Crabapple
Margaret Killjoy
1:00 pm
Austin Channing Brown presents “Full Of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession” in conversation w/Tarana Burke
Austin Channing Brown
Tarana Burke
2:00 pm
Sustaining Our Legacy, Building Our Future: Black Publishing in perspective
w. Paul Coates
Kassahun Checole
Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson
Stephanie Henderson
3:00 pm
One Maryland One Book 2026 Spotlight: Lawrence Burney presents “No Sense in Wishing” in converSatioN With Doreen St. Félix
Lawrence Burney
Doreen St. Félix
