New York, NY: The Publishing Triangle OUTspoken LGBTQ+ Reading Series, November 16, 2023
Lincroft, NJ: Brookdale Community College Dr. Carl Calendar Visiting Writers Series, reading and craft talk, November 9, 2023
Asian American Writers’ Workshop: On Girlhood, Craft, and Writing in Community, discussion with Smriti Ravindra and Nina Sharma, October 9, 2023
Washington, D.C.: Pen/Faulkner Foundation Literary Garden Party, September 30, 2023
New York, NY: The Center For Fiction: Discussion with Kim Coleman Foote and Sarah Jessica Parker, Coleman Hill launch, September 5, 2023
The DC LGBTQ+ Community Center: OutWrite 2023 Big Girl keynote reading, August 11, 2023
One Book, One Watertown: Big Girl dramatic reading, March 25, 2023 (New Repertory Theater, Watertown, MA)
Brandeis University: Creative Writing Reading Series: Big Girl reading, March 16, 2023
National Women’s Studies Association Conference: “Poetry, Prose, and Resistance,” November 20th, 2021 (Panel discussion and reading)
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice: Social Justice Power Hour, July 16th, 2021
215 Festival: An Evening with The Claw (with Emma Copley Eisenberg, Stephanie Feldman, Elizabeth Greenspan, Jacqueline Goldfinger, and Sara Novic), May 15th, 2021 (215 Festival, Philadelphia)
Brooklyn Book Festival: "Queer Conflicts" Panel (with Sarah Schulman, Alexis DeVeaux, Heather Love), September 16th, 2016. (Brooklyn Book Festival, NYC)
Mount Holyoke College, Hadley MA: Featured reading, October 15th, 2015
Festival of Women Writers, Hobart, NY: Featured readings and workshop discussions, with Cheryl Clarke, Jewelle Gomez, Breena Clarke, and JP Howard, September 11th-13th, 2015
Brooklyn, NY: Stuyvesant Writing Workshop - Reading and workshop discussion, August 15th, 2015
Philadelphia, PA: Big Blue Marble Books: The Power of Black Women's Stories, Reading and Conversation with Tamara Winfrey Harris, August 11th, 2015
New York, Ny: The Center For Fiction: Blue Talk and Love - Reading and Conversation, with Tiphanie Yanique, June 10th, 2015
Brooklyn, NY: Branded Saloon Reading Series, with Jabari Asim and Jenn Baker, May 31st, 2015
New York University: PEN New World Voices Bookfair Reading (in conjunction with Kweli Journal) May 8th, 2015
Quare Square Collective and Gallery 400 present Blue Talk and Love. A reading of literary fiction by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.
April 11th, 2015 3-5pm, Gallery 400
7 Minutes: A Literary Arts Spotlight. A reading of literary fiction by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and others.
March 28th, 2015, Springfield City Library
New York Times Heritage Network/ Kweli Journal Reading Series, January 30th, 2015. With Tiphanie Yanique and LaShonda Barnett. Selections from Blue Talk and Love.
Black Life Matters Conference, University of Arizona, January 15th, 2015. Selections from Blue Talk and Love.
All About Skin: Short Fiction by Winning Women of Color Book Launch, NYC, October 25th, 2014. Selections from Blue Talk and Love
Word Rock & Sword: A Festival Celebration of Women’s Lives, NYC, September 18th, 2014 “Saturday”
SCHOLARLY LECTURES AND TALKS
Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive: “Looking after Morrison” (with C. Riley Snorton, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Margo Natalie Crawford, and Erica R. Edwards), Princeton University, March 24, 2023
Changing Our Own Futures: Black Feminist Theory and Criticism Symposium: “The Future of Black Feminist Theory” (with Margo Crawford and Brittney Cooper), Rutgers University, April 21-22, 2022
‘Words Walking Without Masters’: Conversations on the Creative-Theoretical Symposium: “Creative-Theoretical Methodologies” Panel Discussion, Cornell University, April 21-22, 2022
“To Turn the World Around”: For Audre Lorde and Pat Parker Panel Discussion (with Indira Allegra and Alexis Pauline Gumbs), The Poetry Foundation, March 31, 2022
Book Reading and Discussion, Dutchess Community College, March 16, 2022
The Clearing Class Visit: “The Bluest Eye: Morrison the Storyteller,” The Rosenbach, March 9, 2022
Women’s History Month: Book Reading and Discussion, Hunter College High School Alumnae/i Association, March 8, 2022
Womxn in Design and Architecture Conference: “Intersectionality and Space” Panel, Princeton School of Architecture, February 25, 2022
“Intersectionality Here & Now” Webinar, University of Utah School for Cultural and Social Transformation, February 25, 2022
Bridge Turns 40: A Celebration of the 40th Anniversary Edition of This Bridge Called My Back, December 3rd, 2021
Mosaic Literary Conference: “The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora,” (with Marci Blackman and LaMonda Horton-Stallings), November 20th, 2021
We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Cultural Workers in Conversation (Conversation with Cheryl Clarke and Qrescent Mali Mason), Paul Robeson House & Museum, July 17th, 2021
Barnard College: Black Feminist Future: Reconceiving Freedom for Collective Power and Justice Panel Discussion (with Miriam Bale, Ashley O’Shay and Valerie Complex), Athena Film Festival, March 25th, 2021
“Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Activism, Poetry, and Black Feminist Joy,” (with Roya Marsh), New York State Association of Independent Schools, April 15th, 2021
Barnard College: Creation is Everything You Do: Shange, The Sisterhood, and Black Collectivity, “Ntozake Shange’s ‘Colored’ Collectivities: Creative Legacies of the Choreopoem Form,” The Shange Magic Project, March 16th, 2021
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought Book Launch and Panel (with Briona Simone Jones, Holly Smith, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Bettina Love, and Cheryl Clarke), Charis Books and More Virtual Event, February 19th, 2021
Durban, South Africa: Black Bodies/Queer Bodies in the African Diaspora Symposium, "'We are here NOW!’: Art and Activism in Black Queer Women’s Disporas,” November, 2015
National Women's Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI: "Black Girl Brilliance, Black Girl Magic: Criticism and Creativity in Black Feminist Literary Theorizing," November, 2015
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto ON: "The Uses of Quiet: Imaging Erotic Subversion in Black Queer Women’s Bodily Performance," October, 2015
