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When identity, culture, faith, family, and community collide—can we find common ground?
Help Us Fund This Cultural Conversation Between Queer and Straight Black Voices
At SISTAH Magazine, we create cultural conversations that preserve lived experiences, document perspective, and transform real dialogue into educational, journalistic, and historical media.
Through our Polar Ends series, we bring together people with differing identities, beliefs, backgrounds, and life experiences to engage in honest conversations about the issues shaping our communities. These discussions are designed to move beyond social media debates and surface-level narratives—capturing personal stories, cultural realities, points of tension, and opportunities for understanding directly from those living them.
In this episode, Queer vs. Straight Black People, participants explore identity, community, belonging, family, faith, relationships, representation, and the complexities of navigating Blackness through different lived experiences.
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Our next episode focuses on: Black Identity, Sexuality, and Social Acceptance
ABOUT THE SEGMENT
Queer vs. Straight Black People
In a time where conversations surrounding sexuality, identity, community, faith, and belonging are often reduced to social media arguments and political talking points, Queer vs. Straight Black People creates space for something deeper: direct dialogue between people with different lived experiences within the Black community.
This episode brings together queer and straight Black participants to discuss the realities of navigating identity, family, relationships, faith, culture, representation, and community. Through honest conversation, participants explore the experiences that have shaped their perspectives, the misconceptions they encounter, and the challenges that continue to create division and misunderstanding.
As the discussion unfolds, participants share personal stories, cultural insights, and reflections on what it means to belong within a community that is often asked to navigate multiple identities at once. Where do perspectives align? Where do tensions remain? And what role do empathy, dialogue, and shared experiences play in building stronger communities?
35 People. $100 Each.
OUR GOAL
If just 35 people donate $100, we can fully fund this production.
Your support covers:
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Filming + Production
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Casting + Community Outreach
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Editing + Post-Production
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Editorial Coverage + Distribution
This is more than content. This is journalism, cultural documentation, and community building.
What Supporters Receive
$100+ Founding Supporter
$1,500+ Founding Supporter
For Our Premium Supporters
Why It Matters for Charlotte
This project helps strengthen Charlotte’s journalism, film, and creative industry by:
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Creating deeper community-centered storytelling
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Hiring local filmmakers, editors, and creatives
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Building independent Black-owned media infrastructure
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Preserving stories that deserve to be documented
If we don’t tell our own stories, someone else will.
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