Tulips in the Garden:
A Black Queer Supper Club
Tulips in the Garden is a soft landing space for Black Queer women, femmes, and gender non-conforming millennials in Durham, North Carolina. We queer Sunday dinner, celebrate Black Queer joy, and foster in place-based solidarity.
tulips in the garden
gatherings
We queer Sunday dinner by hosting gatherings that center Black Queer joy, nourishment, and community building. With staple gatherings, we partner with local non-profits or community initiatives to give back, ensuring that the love we cultivate around the table extends back into the wider Durham community.
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Founder & Host
Maurisa li-a-ping
Maurisa is a Writer & Cultural Strategist. She built Tulips in the Garden to prioritize and nurture Black Queer millennials' interiority. She sought to create a safe space that reclaims and celebrates our softness, resilience, and collective joy. When she isn't stewarding tulips in the garden, you can find Maurisa teaching yoga and partnering with mission-driven organizations to build people-centered cultures.
Partner With Us
Tulips in the Garden grows from community care, collaboration, and love. Whether you’re an individual, organization, or local business, there are many ways to help us thrive.[email protected]
tulips in the garden on the road
Ordinary Intimacies
Ordinary Intimacies is a storytelling project from Tulips in the Garden that explores the sweet play, nuanced conflict, aging wisdom, and daily routines that shape Black Queer life. For the pilot, we will sit down with Black Queer women, femmes, and gender non-conforming millennials from the Triangle region of North Carolina and New York City. Over food, drinks, and conversation, participants will reflect on the stories that live in the group chat, voice notes, and journals. Each guest will be featured through a written profile, participant-selected photographs, and music that helps tell the story of their life.
Get Involved
We invite you to take part by nominating someone, partnering with us, or helping sustain a feature (individuals may also nominate themselves). Each path supports an archive where current and future generations can recognize themselves through their shared ways of loving, gathering, caring, laughing, and making meaning.