April Parker is a self identified biracial, Queer, Femme, LGBTQ cultural historian, teenage mother, other mother, grass roots organizer, social justice warrior, radical librarian, revolutionary, Jersey girl transient with roots in the south who is now committed to building community and raising her daughter here in the heart of the south, North Carolina.
Since 2011 April Parker has facilitated workshops, support groups, and both created and co created events that centers LGBTQ people of color. April affirms QPOCC is a platform to highlight our community, learn our collective histories, and embrace our unique culture. QPOCC hopes to insight a strong sense of connectedness with ourselves, our community and is invested in this relationship building. In addition April Parker is dedicated to illuminating the successes and struggles faced by all oppressed populations through research, service provision, inclusive programming, policies, and resource accessibility. QPOCC gives April a strong sense of pride as QPOCC is intersectionality in action. In realization that our liberation from oppression QPOCC provides spaces of wholeness where one doesn't have to discard any part of their identity be it race, class, gender, sexual orientation or otherwise.
April Parker is among lead organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement in Greensboro, NC
April Parker being interviewed for local LGBT documentary
April Parker (left) pictured with Parker T. Hurley, co-founder
Queer People
of Color
Collective