Dear Baby Queer

Dear Baby Queer is a living archive of letters to our younger queer selves, organized by Danielle Coates-Connor. This creative session will touch on past, present, and future. This project gathers memories, reflections, grief, joy, longing, tenderness, mistakes, becoming, survival, fantasies, and truths we needed to hear sooner. We are collecting letters from queer and trans people across generations as a way of honoring our younger selves and creating a record of queer life, feeling, imagination, and care. * Danielle Coates-Connor created Crush Life Manifesto out of need and desire. Danielle is a creative director, storyteller, and strategist whose work centers on cultivating authentic voice by stripping away conditioning, uncovering truth and desire, and practicing bravery. Danielle is the founder and creative director of Infinite Growth, a design firm serving change-makers. Their leadership framework, Holistic Vision, has supported innovators around the world in making values-aligned decisions and conjuring solutions that once felt impossible. With deep experience in climate justice, immigrant rights, racial equity, global women’s empowerment, and civic engagement, Danielle’s work spans award-winning documentary film, photography, writing, podcasts, and immersive video installation. Crush Life Manifesto: Mossy Space is a lush, full-color, small-batch publication exploring intimacy, sexuality, and social change. A call for erotic courage, a field guide to low-arousal connection, an artifact of collective imagination. This is where people bring the ideas they are told not to say out loud. Hive Mind Books is a queer and trans bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. We are located off of the Dekalb Ave (L), Myrtle-Wyckoff (L/M), and Knickerbocker (M) subway stations. Our coffee and tea bar will be open for the duration of this event.