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Dare Williams

Dare Williams is an HIV-positive poet, artist, and activist native to Southern California. Dare’s poetry has been featured in magazines including Starrfucker. An alum of Home School Claremont, he is currently working on a poetry collection confronting the erasure of queer culture.


Articles by Dare Williams

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Friday June 21

“Leaving The Light On”: An Essay by 2019 Emerging Voices Fellow Dare Williams

“Your stories, your essays, and your poems need you to tell them. Because we need to hear them.”