After the film screening and Q&A, Aaron Johnson will facilitate the workshop for Black male-identified and Black masculine-bodied individuals. Whether you identify as a Black man, transgender man, or another Black masculine identity, you are welcome to join us in this intentional space for reflection, healing, and community.
This workshop, centered around the short film “Dark and Tender,” invites Black men to collectively explore how our hands—our touch, our gestures—have been shaped by histories of violence, toughness, and harm. Together, we will examine the propaganda, personal narratives, and systemic forces that have trained us to be in opposition. Through film, dialogue, and embodied practice, we will ask: what would it mean to retrain our hands toward tenderness, toward care, toward a tender vision of Black brotherhood? This is a space for vulnerability, for history, and for a new vision of connection.
Food will be provided.