About the speaker
Joni Renee Whitworth (they/them) is a poet and community organizer from rural Oregon. They have performed at The Moth, the Segerstrom Center for the
Performing Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art alongside Marina
Abramovic. They are the founder of queer artist collective Future
Prairie and local business Mint & Mirth. Joni served as the inaugural Artist in Residence at Portland Parks and Recreation and was recently
named a 2020 Queer Hero by the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific
Northwest. Their writing explores themes of nature, future, family,
and the neurodivergent body, and has appeared in Lambda Literary, Tin
House, and elsewhere.
Jolie Brownell (she/her) is a 20-year-old, award-winning poet, speaker and author of "Me Too.” Jolie is currently a junior at Loyola Marymount University where she is majoring in Women and Gender Studies and minoring in African American Studies and Sociology. In her free time, you can find Jolie dancing to Beyonce, writing articles for AGENCY, illustrating, and Facetiming friends.
Additional details
This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom and Joni’s talk will not be recorded or available to watch afterward. Please join us that morning if you’d like to hear from them. :)
👌An ASL/English interpreters can be provided for this talk.
If you have questions about accessibility or need other accommodations, please email pdx@creativemornings.com.
Location
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Portland, United States
When
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Photographer Christopher Diego
Photographer Samantha Reynolds
Videographer Tyler Nordby