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A pop-up flea market highlighting Philadelphia-based LGBTQ+ small business owners is headed to the recently-opened Mural City Gardens in Kensington from 1 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 23. Philly Queer Flea is free to attend, but organizers encourage visitors to donate to the New Kensington Community Development Corporation, which owns the space.

A group of queer, black friends, the Jewish experience, how a British Iraqi saw the Gulf War … as she unveils her radical programme, the artistic director talks about learning from the row which saw the theatre accused of antisemitism

Tue 13 Apr 2021 19.01 EDT The Young Vic and Royal Court theatres have entered into a pioneering consultation process that aims to identify and root out systemic racism from their venues. The artistic directors of both London institutions have signed up to a two-year partnership with the social enterprise Sour Lemons that will interrogate the internal structures that uphold institutional racism, raise awareness and accountability, and listen to staff’s experiences of racism inside the build...

© Francis Augusto Social enterprise and charity Sour Lemons will work with the Young Vic and the Royal Court to trace and tackle systemic racism within the theatre community. Sade Banks, CEO and founder of the charity, explained that: "Our mission is to make the truth irresistible - if it becomes impossible to not be aware of how racism manifests, its impossible not to do something about it. "The Sour Lemons model is unique because it responds directly to the lived experiences of racism within...