Poetry Reading & Artist Talk with Bekezela Mguni

Join Revolutionary Care artist, Bekezela Mguni for an intimate morning of poetry and conversation. The program presents a live poetry reading that expands on the themes of the exhibition—care as resistance, interdependence, and the quiet, radical gestures that sustain communities.

Following the reading, the artist will lead a guided walkthrough of the exhibition, offering personal insights into their work and the broader dialogue among the artists in the show. This is a unique opportunity to experience Revolutionary Care through the artist’s own voice, moving between languages and object, reflection and shared space.

Bekezela Mguni (Pittsburgh, PA) is a queer Trinidadian artist, librarian, and cultural organizer. She has over 20 years of community organizing experience, working with LGBTQIA+ communities, youth, women, and people of the global majority. She is a co-founder of New Voices for Reproductive Justice and was trained as a community doula by the Birth Circle. She served as a Client Services Associate at the Midwife Center, which provides reproductive wellness and pregnancy care. During her time at TMC, she organized and updated the library, launched the first celebration of Black Breastfeeding Week in Pittsburgh in August of 2014, and co-founded the Pittsburgh Black Breastfeeding Circle. Bekezela is a member of the Ujamaa Collective and the Black Socialist Formation. She is the Artistic Director at Dreams of Hope, which affirms and uplifts the voices of LGBTQIA+ youth through the arts. She is the founder of The Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project, a community initiative cultivating libraries as sites of possibility and freedom.

Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

Artwork Credit:

Everlasting

by Bekezela Mguni

2024

Screenprint on paper

12 x 18.5 in