Getting Ready for

FREEDOM & PRIDE

Good Afternoon Beautiful Humans

At Kamora’s Cultural Corner, we are Black, we are Queer, and we are rooted in love, resilience, and cultural humility. As we step into June—where Pride and Liberation meet—we’re calling on our community to help us grow something beautiful, visible, and unapologetically ours.

We’re building a Pansy Garden at the Sterling Street Sanctuary and Nature Reserve and we need your support.

This isn’t just about flowers—it’s about legacy, healing, and place. Inspired by Paul Harfleet’s Pansy Project and grounded in our Cultural Humility practice, this garden will visibly honor Black Queer life in the North End of Hartford. We’re naming Rita Hester. We’re naming ourselves. We’re creating an anchor of safety and joy for our queer youth—those who are just coming out, and those who are grown now and still need a place to come home to.

On June 21st, we’ll gather for our next Thinking and Doing Day and if we reach our goal, we’ll build the Pansy Garden that day—with your hands, your energy, and your stories.

Right now we need your support to make it real:

Stained Ideologies

Our current t-shirt fundraiser will help pay for our June Thinking and Doing Day activities, including our Cook-Out and Pansy Garden.

AND everyone who buys a t-shirt will be entered into a drawing to win the original artwork!

Buy yours NOW!

t-shirts are only available until

Tuesday May 27th!

Purchase Your t-shirt HERE

Support Us monthly through Patreon

Join our $25/month Community Care tier, created at the request of some of our more vocal Black Queer members!
Join our $10/month Community Tier on Patreon to fuel our intersectional work and free programming.

Join our $5/month Garden Tier which will help us bloom a visible, safe, and permanent third space rooted in Black Queer love.

Your monthly gift ensures our Thinking and Doing Days, cultural learning, community meals, and spaces of reflection and resistance remain free and accessible. With enough of us giving a little, we can build something revolutionary.

JOIN US ON OUR PATREON PAGE

Our Sterling Street VISION

Interested in Sponsoring or Tabling at Thinking and Doing Day? Let's talk!

“The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.” — Audre Lorde

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

Standing Firmly at Our Intersections

There is no LGBTQ+ without the “Q”;

there is no “Q” without Us.

Kamora’s Cultural Corner is where humans who weren’t always safe in the Pride tent come to find their seat at our table.

If you’ve ever been loved, fed, held, or seen at Sterling Street, help us keep this space thriving.

If you know that we love, feed, hold and SEE our Beautiful Humans at Sterling Street, please help us continue doing what we do.

THANK YOU.

In Love and Peace, Kamora