On March 9, during Black Mental Health Awareness Week, a spoken word concert is being performed by six Black women across North America and generations.
When Sisters Speak is an annual spoken word concert created by national poetry slam champion Dwayne Morgan to give black women a platform to share their issues. Morgan says that “it is very important for us to understand that we are not the centre of women’s lives and experiences they actually have lives that and things in their lives that don’t include or involve us.”
When Sisters Speak was started 24 years ago following the creation of Morgan’s first spoken word concert series, When Brothers Speak. Morgan says that he was waiting for someone else to create When Sisters Speak and when no did he took it upon himself to make it.
This year’s line of artists include Queen Sheba, one half of the duo Floerty, Ayanna Albertson-Gay, Shelly Grace, Hannah Flores and Shahaddah Jack.
