Queering The Night
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C.C. Carter earned her M.A. in creative writing from Queens College in New York. She received her B. A. in English Literature from Spelman College in Atlanta. In addition to her recent release Body Language (Kings Crossing Publishing) C. C. is the author of a chapbook, Letters to My Love.
In 2002, C.C. was a judge and celebrity guest at the Gay Games in Sydney Australia. C. C. and can be seen touring the Women's Music Festival circuit, performing her poetry and prose work, "Living Large in a Shrinking America" or "On Becoming Woman."
The once-aspiring actress now moonlights as one, and can be seen in the film documentary Living with Pride - Ruth Ellis @ 100 Years, Kevin’s Room, and Chic-a-go-go Children’s Hour. She is a member of the performance ensemble A Real Read.
In the slam competition scene, C.C. won the 5th Annual Guild Complex Gwendolyn Brook’s Open Mic Competition, and the Lambda Book Review’s 1st Annual National Slam Competition at the Behind Our Mask conference, as well as several local and national slams, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) for her poetry. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago, where she teaches performance poetry workshops.
POW-WOW Performance Ensemble infuses spoken word, prose, drama, music and anything else women deem as art and weaves them into theatrical presentations that speak to women and men regardless of sexuality and gender but specifically written and performed from the lens of LBTQ women of color. We are mothers, lovers, daughters, sisters, friends and survivors. But more importantly we are the voices of women refusing to be silent.
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