Meet Mia Charnelle, one of Q26’s 2023 Photography Workshop Leaders! Covering: Introductory Photography and Product Photography

This Poison Heart is a young adult, fantasy novel about a 17-year-old girl, Briesis, who has the ability to control plants with her mind. In addition, she’s immune to poisons. What this means is not only does she have her black girl magic going for her, but she also has a pretty badass power that would make anyone pause.

“Come on, don’t say that.” 

“I don’t care half as much as he does. He deserves someone who isn’t like me.” “You’ll hurt him if you leave.” 

“And I’ll hurt him if I stay.”

There has been an obvious lack of female presenting characters in tv and film. The problem is although more exist on our screens; they have become so superficial, so un-relatable that the women no longer feel like real women.

The LGBTQ Center Long Beach has recently become a sponsor for The Filmmakers Club. The Queer 26 established this program to help up-and-coming artists gain experience in the filmmaking industry. 

“Art comes in many different forms and shapes. Art can help all of us to deal with the difficulties in our lives,” said Carlos Torres, The Center’s Executive Director. 

For anyone seeking unflinching authentic stories, Muhyi Ali is the one to watch. Most known for her award-winning film Undefined: A Muslim-American Musical, Ali brings a refreshing perspective on the overlooked stories of those in POC spaces. She has taken the time today to tell us more about herself and her upcoming project Always in Bloom: Amara. 

This dearth of racial representation is clear every time a commercial fetishizes non-White bodies, every time a film layers a sepia wash over scenes of lovers south of the American border, and every time a billboard packages cultural appropriation of queer Black culture as “trendy.” We recognize the importance of queer representation, yet we can’t help but ask one another: “Was there no one of color in the room?” Too often, the answer is “No.”

What if I panic and let my anxiety take over and I shake things up in a desperate attempt to please her but my chaotic good turns to chaotic evil and tremors too violent pass through and everything we had falls through the cracks as our shared world splits back in twoTried to stop the hurt innumerable (∞) times but it keeps getting worse

Model and Educator Mx. Nae Vallejo explains how they use fashion to expand education through shared experiences.