CANCELLED - Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem with Denice Frohman Tue, April 21, 2020 7:30 P.M. Parkway Central Library. . I woke up yesterday & thought about all the LGBT girls of color & mixed girls who don’t fit in with the inherited scripts of womanhood, who—like me—prefer pants over dresses & like sports. Born and raised in New York City, she is a CantoMundo Fellow, 2014 National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures grant recipient, 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, 2013 Hispanic Choice Award winner (Creative Artist of the Year), and former Leeway Transformation Award recipient.

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Her childhood was filled with music: rap and freestyle from the thriving New York hip-hop scene and Latin jazz from her musician father, who played with greats like Tito Puente. By Denice Frohman. This is part of a longer poem I wrote & it’s wild to see it grow in this way. Poet, performer, and teacher Denice Frohman was born and raised in New York City. DENICE FROHMAN is a poet, performer & educator from New York City. Her work can also be found in the following books, Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books); Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (OR Books); Jotas: An Anthology of Queer Latina Voices (Korima Press/forthcoming); Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word (Rethinking Schools, 2nd ed. She was named "Top 20 Emerging LGBT Leader" by the Philadelphia Gay Newspaper, and one of "5 LGBTQ Latinx Hereos for Every Classroom" by GLSEN.Her secret passion is songwriting and she played professional basketball in Puerto Rico after college where she earned a four-year athletic scholarship.Currently, she tours the country and is based in Philadelphia.AAE is one of the premier celebrity booking agencies and top keynote speakers bureaus in the world. Activist, feminist, poet, performer, and educator Denice Frohman first gained major notoriety — and mad respect — a few years back when she won the Women of … She has worked with digital media companies and brands to write creative content; collaborated on projects with classical music foundations, theaters and non-profits; and written original spots for TV campaigns (see commissioned work for more info).Other notable speaking engagements and performances include: Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity (France), Lincoln Center, ACLU (PA), TedxPhilly, the National Latino Association of Arts and Culture Awards, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Office of LGBT Affairs (Philadelphia), WPP Stream conference, U.S Hispanic Leadership Institute and more. Also, I put up a few Spring dates on the website, including events in: California, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Iowa. I spent a loAnd we back, and we back... Fall Tour kicks off tonight, can’t wait! She is a poet, a performer, and an educator, and her creative work and activism address identity, social change, and compassion. She hopes to inspire people, particularly young folks of color, to see themselves as writers and to tell their own stories.As a former Program Director at The Philly Youth Poetry Movement - a literary and youth empowerment non-profit organization - she worked to create safe spaces for Philadelphia teens to discover the power of their voices. In her poem, Denice Frohman revisits her childhood on the basketball court and how the hoop resembles a wedding band. Natalie Diaz is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec, an “ambitious .

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