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Around March of 2015, I came across an Instagram post of the Women by Choice Network about the importance of cultivating sisterhood for the growth of women. That post prompted me to log on to their website and sign up for their membership, since then I have been a member and I have taken some of Andromeda Raheem’s online coaching ... Read More »

One of the many reasons I am publishing these interviews is to give proper credit to those people in our communities who are doing amazing work and have impacted my life one way or another, the everyday hero who is not known by many. One of those people is Vanessa Martir. I  first met Vanessa in the Spring of 2013 at my ... Read More »

I met Bridget Bartolini in 2013 at an event curated by Queens poet, Audrey Dimola at the Queens Council of the Arts.  After the performance of a collective of poets representing my event Canvas of Words, she approached me and inquire if perhaps we could in a near future work together; we exchanged business cards and since then we have ... Read More »

I met Mariela Regalado, about two years ago at a women’s empowering event.  I remember Mariela walking up to me, introducing herself and sparking conversation, from the moment you meet her you feel welcomed. Later on that year, we met again at a writing workshop facilitated by Vanessa Martir which gave me the opportunity to learn more about Mariela’s story. ... Read More »

Last December, I was invited by Bridget Bartolini, founder of the Five Boro Story Project to be a part of the culminating event of The Richmond Hill Love Letter series by sharing my love for Richmond Hill, Queens, alongside poignant storytellers: Richard S. David, Nadia Misir, Sean Kulsum and Bridget Bartolini . I had the opportunity to share my story ... Read More »

We are thrilled to announce that we will be covering this year’s Queens Hip Hop Festival which takes place this September 22-24  with a variety of events from its kick-off party at the Queens Museum, Art Exhibits, Concert and even Yoga!. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here. Stay tuned for our full coverage of this year’s festival! Read More »

A year ago, after finishing my second session of Writing our Lives with Vanessa Martir and returning from VONA I decided to create a book and writing club: The Musa Writing and Reading Group, a group that will not only benefit me as a writer but that will benefit other women who like me are writers but wear numerous hats ... Read More »

For the past year I have been working with a group of incredible women on a project about street harassment titled Elephant. The idea behind this video is to reclaim our bodies> Elephant a short choreo-film entirely produced by women of color against street harassment. The video is the collective effort of a group of interdisciplinary artists from New York ... Read More »

What’s New ? Our CEO and founder Wendy Angulo has joined the Queens Book Festival as their Latino Community Liaison and Communications Director. Read below this exclusive interview with our partners Sofrito for your Soul. http://www.sofritoforyoursoul.com/the-queen-of-queens-wendy-angulo-joins-the-queens-book-festival/ Read More »

SUMMER OF WORDZ is a 12 class series of writing and performance workshops leading up to a culminating theatrical event, anthology, & film. It is led by award winning poet “Advocate of Wordz” and will feature two guest lecturers to be announced shortly. Our goal is to increase the value of our participants writing, performance, and commodity as an artist ... Read More »