About
the Project
Beyond the Rainbow, a project of The Curve Foundation, is a groundbreaking conversation series that seeks to create an intersectional, multi generational space touching on gender, queerness, race, ability, and activism of yesterday and today. Beyond the Rainbow seeks to challenge the possibilities and limits of queer representation as a path towards liberation.
Past Events
SESSION ONE
For the Love of Women
Queer womanhood is evolving, as are ideas of gender and sexuality. Loving women and creating safe queer spaces are hallmarks of lesbian lore, but what does it mean to love women and ourselves, today? Where are we buoyed by our love, and when does our womanhood let us down? For the launch of Beyond The Rainbow, we held a conversation on Lesbian Visibility Day to talk about gender, queer womanhood, and what visibility means to us. Moderator: Executive Director, Jasmine Sudarkasa Panelists: Andy Marra, Executive Director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund Lutze Segu, the Social Justice Doula Dr. Alexis Romero Walker, Assistant Professor at Manhattanville College
SESSION TWO
Celebrating Pride & Organizing Communities in Disability, Gender, Queerness
July is Disability Pride Month and we are partnering with Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network for a special conversation about the intersections of disability, gender, and queerness. Moderator: Lydia X. Z. Brown, AWN Director of Policy, Advocacy, and External Affairs Panelists: Jamila Hammami, Organizer & Lecturer of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies, San Francisco State University Bridget Liang, PhD student in the Gender, Feminist, and Women's Studies program at York University
SESSION THREE
Coming Home: Finding Comunidad Across Borders and Place
For many of us, latinidad is complicated. Our communities are rife with anti-Blackness and indigenous erasure, and currents of machismo that allow sexism and homophobia to force us into exile—often a second generation of exile for those of us born to refugees. In the spirit of Latinx Heritage month we envision us exploring what it means to return a casa: how we reconcile with the wounds of machismo, homofobia, and re-create comunidad with our elders and chosen family
News
Our First Program Year: A Reflection on ‘Space’
By Jasmine Sudarkasa Over the last year, I’ve thought a lot about space: safer spaces, spaces to grow and the so-called spaciousness that remote work brings. The luster that brought me to this role was its implied spaciousness: a fully-remote project focused on digital preservation and leadership development in the field-building world of philanthropy. We […]
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We Have Always Been Visible
By Andrea Pino-Silva It was a late April afternoon, around ten years ago, that I found myself laid across a blanket on the quad of my campus, deciding if this was the day that I was going to finally write about my sexuality. I was enrolled in a wonderful Latina literature class whose syllabus included […]
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