Defining Love Community Salon: Black Love in All Its Forms

How do the many forms of Black love weave through our lives, and which do we cherish, nurture, or yearn to experience?About this Event

Black love exists in more places than we sometimes recognize. It lives in our relationships with ourselves, our families, our friends, our communities, and across the Black diaspora. Some expressions of love are celebrated openly, while others receive less attention. How might our understanding of love change when we make space for all of them?Join DC filmmaker Zoë Poindexter, founder of Black Love Documentary LLC, for Black Love in All Its Forms, the final gathering in this fall's Defining Love Community Salon series.

This free community event brings together two perspectives on Black love: Mama Ayo Handy-Kendi, who founded Black Love Day in Washington, D.C., in 1993, and Nikki Payne, a DC-based romance novelist and cultural anthropologist whose storytelling explores love, relationships, and belonging.

Together, we'll consider how different expressions of