The 1st Queer & Feminist Poetry Awards will take place on September 27th and will award poets and spoken word artists from across the Netherlands whose works talk about LGBTQ+ identities and feminism.

Luis Bracamontes is a queer Mexican spoken word artist and digital marketeer.  He is the founder of Unwanted Words, a queer spoken word initiative, and organizer of the first Queer and Feminist Poetry Awards in Rotterdam.

Lamin Barrow is a young Spoken Word artist and fashion illustrator from The Gambia. Lamin is on a journey to become a Dutch citizen and start a fabulous queer life in The Netherlands. Lamin recently joined the Rotterdam based Spoken Word collective Unwanted Words and sends a Spoken Word a day to all his subscribers.

Unwanted Words is the platform for up & coming queer poets and spoken word artists in Rotterdam and around. They host a monthly series of Queer Poetry Nights in Rotterdam.

Unwanted Words goal is to offer safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people to share their art, their stories and for a queer audience to connect and celebrate each other.

Created in September 2018, we have gone to host 11 events with a full house, collaborated with over 40 local and international poets and artists with zero budget, just a team of enthusiastic volunteers and several partners that have supported the project pro-bono.

Read more about Unwated Words in our article with founder Luis Bracamontes.

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