Rooted Cookout
Sep
7
1:00 PM13:00

Rooted Cookout

Come join us for a fun-filled afternoon at Druid Hill Park - Sundial Pavilion! The Rooted Collective Cookout is an opportunity to connect and recharge with like-minded Black queer and trans folks. Soak up the sun in a beautiful outdoor park and enjoy delicious food by Soul Smoked BBQ, music by DJ Afrodelic, and activities like tarot, reiki, yoga, and improv comedy led by Rooted Collective members. See you there


Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024
Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Druid Hill Park - Sundial Pavilion, 900 Druid Park Lake Dr, Baltimore, MD 21217
Caterer: Soul Smoked BBQ (Black and queer owned)
Music: DJ Afr0delic (Black and queer)
Registration link in bio

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A Tenderness Zine Launch and Panel Discussion
Jul
25
7:00 PM19:00

A Tenderness Zine Launch and Panel Discussion

The Rooted Collective has curated a free digital zine for Black SGL/LGBTQ folks looking for ways to say grounded and whole during the COVID 19 pandemic. A tenderness offers visual art, reflections, poetry, and meditative practices.

Join us on July 25 at 7 pm for a Facebook Live reading and panel discussion with contributors to celebrate its launch!

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Love Poems for Black Survivors
Jul
13
to Jul 18

Love Poems for Black Survivors

Love Poems for Black Survivors is an art action that seeks to uplift the fight for incarcerated Black survivors of gender-based violence. Black survivors, particularly Black trans women, nonbinary folks, and low-income people are much more likely to experience violence and be arrested, charged, and incarcerated when seeking help for abuse. Rooted seeks to uplift the narratives of Black survivors and fight for a world where we are free.

Ms. Eraina Pretty is a 60-year-old Black elder and survivor of domestic violence. When Eraina was 19, her abuser coerced her into participating in a robbery which resulted in the murder of her boss. Ms. Pretty was sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole. Now Maryland’s longest-serving woman inmate, Ms. Pretty has been incarcerated for 42 years and has been denied parole by the Governor twice.

You can support this action by recording a poem by a Black woman and/or non-binary person this week. Share your recording on social media, tag the Rooted collective. Start your recording with: My name is X, and I am reading this poem in solidarity with the movement to commute the sentence of Ms. Eraina Pretty. Tag Rooted and share our call to Governor Hogan!

Or, on July 18th at 2 pm, you can join us for a poetry reading in honor of incarcerated Black gender-based violence survivors. During this event, call Governor Hogan to demand her release.
Phone: 410-974-3901

Demand: I am calling to demand Governor Hogan commutes Eraina Pretty’s sentence and free all incarcerated Black survivors.

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