Photo Gallery

Check out snapshots from all three days of the conference! 

Photographer Nicholas Lea Bruno captured amazing images of speakers on stage, dancers out on the deck, authors chatting with fans, artists doing their crafts, and so much more. You may even see yourself in some of these photographs! Click here to see the full gallery.

 

Imani Barbarin, a Black disabled woman wearing a leather jacket and black-and-white dress speaks into a microphone

 

A young woman DJ makes a heart gesture with her hands

 

Two conference attendees engage in conversation

 

An altar made of sand and organic materials

 

A saxophonist plays into a microphone; an image of the vocalist is refracted


 

Basima Sisemore, a young Arab American woman, holds her hand over her heart and smiles standing behind a pdoium


 

A large audience listens intently to a panel


 

Astra Taylor, a white woman in a leather jackets, speaks at a podium. Multiple images refract over her.
Christine Wong Yap, an Asian woman in a puffy Black blouse, stands beside her colorful textil banners

 

Viet Thanh Nguyen and a fan pose together

 

john a. powell, a tall Black man in a suit jacket, laughs with a group of conference attendees

 

People mill about in an auditorium; behind them, a painted banner reads "You Belong Here"

 

A group of dancers wearing jade green and teal blue dance while rappeling down a building

 

Two people gaze at colorful textile banners


 

A young man smiles and stands next to stacks of books on a table


 

Two people sit at a crafting table


 

Audience members seated in a large theater engage in conversation with their neighbors

 

A young person is lifted into the air, arms outstretched, by a group of dancers

 

Ruthie Wilson Gilmore, a black woman in a black bomber jacket, chats with an eager crowd

 

A group of panelists sit on stage as one woman, Sherene Seikaly, speaks


 

Three people stationed at a heat-press printing machine pose for the camera


 

A young black boy in a red martial arts uniform throws a straight punch


 

A band plays percussive instruments on an outdoor deck


 

A dancer leads a group


 

Ashlin Malouf-Gashaw, a mixed race woman, smiles standing at a podium and

 

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