Black queer people, we are so great at finding beauty and joy and celebration in abundance
and loss and also grief.
JD Stokely is a trickster-in-training who creates and curates work around queer Black ecologies, archives and cultural memory, impossibility, and public space. They are a co-founding member of Unbound Bodies Collective, a multidisciplinary arts lab for QTBIPOC creatives centered around healing, embodiment, pleasure, and joy. Stokely is also a part of the curating team for Hot Bits, an annual traveling erotic queer film and performance festival.
Stokely has performed work locally and internationally. They are a recipient of a Leeway Art and Change grant (2016), the Careatwell Award (2019-21), and are a 2019 artEquity cohort member. A Hampshire alum, Stokely received an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in 2014 and is currently a doctoral student in Theatre Arts & Performance Studies at Brown University. Stokely grew up between Philadelphia and Boston, and claims both of them as home.
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Join the project's creative leads and its participants for a discussion of the Black queer experience in Boston. This conversation takes place at 7 pm during our Free First Thursday program on March 3.