TCB Weekend // "Sisterhood is a Verb: Black Women Cultural Workers Discussion Circle"

Join us on April 10th, from 6 - 8:00 pm, as we gather to practice what it means to be in relation!

On April 10th and 11th, LifexCode partners with Muse 360, African Diaspora Alliance & Black Women Cultural Workers Archive to honor the life, work, and political imagination of Toni Cade Bambara! Below, we share details about the “Sisterhood is a Verb: Black Women Cultural Workers Discussion Circle” event, happening April 10th. You can find out more about our entire lineup here.

Grounded in Toni Cade Bambara’s assertion that “sister is a verb,” and as Alexis Pauline Gumbs reminds us, “sisterhood is built by action, not by biology,” we approach sisterhood as an intentional practice of showing up, holding space in love, and tending to one another. Guided by Black Women Cultural Workers Archive founders Nadejda Webb and Sharayna Ashanti Christmas, with a collective poetry collaboration led by Julia Mallory, this space invites participants into a lived practice of sisterhood rooted in presence, responsibility, and care.

We call in the healers, the poets, the gardeners, the artists, the educators, the cultural workers, the ones the community names into the role. Communally, we consider what it means to live into that naming, to “sister” each other building shared forms of care that are accountable and sustaining. We ask in consideration: what has Mama Toni Cade Bambara taught us about deeply supporting those we hold dear?

When: Apr 10, 2026 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm est

Where: 3100 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore

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The Maryland premiere of TCB — The Toni Cade Bambara will be held on April 11 at 6:30 pm as part of Maryland Film Festival 2026. The founding Director of Muse 360, Ms. Sharayna Ashanti Christmas, will moderate a post-screening conversation with director Louis Massiah and scholar Angela Carroll. You can find tickets here.

We send many thanks to partners Muse 360 (Lead Organizer), Maryland Film Festival (MdFF)/Parkway Theatre, Black Women Cultural Workers Archive (BWCWa), African Diaspora Alliance (ADA), Jen White-Johnson and The Diaspora Solidarities Lab.