For BIPOC LGBTQ+ Women: Healing the Heart through Writing

With Dr. Juanita Kirton

April 11 - 13, 2025

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Date and Time Details: Check in is on Friday from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Program will begin with dinner on Friday at 6:00 pm and will end after lunch on Sunday at 1:00 pm.

Location: The Farmhouse

Address: 2281 Fox Gap Road, Bangor, PA, USA

Contact: Logan Rimel
loganr@kirkridge.org

  • Commuter – $215.00
  • Farmhouse Private Room – $425.00
  • Farmhouse Shared Room – $325.00

Write to unravel confusion, to understand, to question, explore feelings, honesty, to heal and break silence. Art guides us to new experiences and engages the present moment to work within. Exploring yourself through your creations and connecting with your emotions.

We invite Black, Indigenous, and Women of color who identify as LGBTQ+ to explore their shared hurts and wounds in a safe space. This workshop reminds us that every person has artistic wisdom inside that is asking for an outlet; that in community we can write together to support and encourage this creative release. With this kinship, we can connect around healing the individual & social transformation. With our shared words we have the opportunity to acknowledge our beauty and strength.

This is a non-clinical workshop & is open to every level of writing/art; beginners or experienced to provide participants tools to understand their own trauma.

About the Leader

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Dr. Juanita Kirton

Dr. Juanita Kirton, poet, writer, educator earned MFA from Goddard College. She is widely published; most recently inĀ  AVOW (American Veteran Association for Women Magazine), Sinister Wisdom, Stillwater Review & Veterans Voices. She is the author of 2-chapbooks, Inner Journey (self-published) & Letters To My Father published by Finishing Line Press. Juanita has new work […]

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