The Reading Room is a casual, welcoming, and creative gathering dedicated to the collective study of Black feminist writers and thinkers. Each month, we read aloud together, sit with big ideas, and make space for reflection, conversation, and shared inquiry.

This spring, we continue our study series Love & Difference—exploring love as an ethical practice shaped by history, power, accountability, and relation.

In May’s Reading Room, we turn to “Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin & Audre Lorde,” a powerful dialogue on gender, care, conflict, and survival. Together, we’ll consider what it means to remain in relationship across difference—and what that asks of us.

This month, we’re joined by special guest Nami Flare (Iman Clark), who will guide us through a movement exploration inspired by the text. Through gentle, collective movement, we’ll practice another way of being in conversation with the ideas. All bodies are welcome, and no dance experience…