I Don’t Want to Leave the Sand, but I Want to Leave the Island: Reflecting on Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Keijaun Thomas’s (b. 1989) work in performance, multimedia installation, and poetry explores the labor of black femmes in situations ranging from housework and hairdressing to athletic training and exotic dancing. Her performances combine rhapsodic layers of live and recorded voice, and her poems slip between various modes of address, exploring the pleasures and pressures of dependency, care, and support. Thomas underscores the endurance and intimacy care work demands of those expected to perform it—predominantly black women, black femmes and people of color. Thomas is currently based in New York, New York.

Egon Suds is a New York-based screenwriter. His work is inspired by the myriad of unique experiences called, as a placeholder, love. His film, Where’s the Rage?, is in postproduction with an anticipated release date in October 2019.