Welcome
We believe storytelling is important for a healthy community. Stories help us heal and grow by helping us see ourselves as we can be.
We also think people deserve to see themselves in tales of exploration, realization, and growth.
We’ll portray marginalized folks in an empowering, and more historically accurate way, as active participants in their own lives and liberation, operating with agency, and dignity.
We’re passionate about emerging genres such as afrofuturism, mythopoeia, Black horror, and cli-fi.
Cir L’Bert, Jr. is a writer and advocate based in Akron, Ohio who brings a rich experience in writing, organizing, interpreting pop culture, and creative direction to this project.
A longtime racial justice organizer in Akron, he has written and presented numerous workshops, classes, and materials on anti-racism. He also has extensive experience in direct action, political strategy, and leadership development.
From 2018-2020 he served on the Commission on Institutional Change for the Unitarian Universalist Association. The commission’s findings were published in their final report, “Widening the Circle of Concern” (Skinner House, 2020).
Winning the Knight Arts Challenge award and launching Conjure Comics is the culmination of his lifelong passion for comic books, genre fiction, storytelling, and systemic progressive change.
