Reading Club: LGBTQ+ Refugees and Ocean Vuong

A literary gathering to reflect as a community on the experiences and challenges faced by LGBTQ+ refugees. 📚

The activity is organized by the Catalan Commission for Refugees (CCAR) and facilitated by Edith Laverde.

📚 LGBTQ+ Refugees Reading Club

📅 November 23, 2026

🕐 From 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

📍 Biblioteca Andreu Nin, Barcelona

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📖 Literature reflecting the LGBTQ+ refugee reality

This session focuses on the work On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (published in Catalan as En aquest món, per un moment, som grandiosos and in Spanish as En la Tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos). Taking the author's pages as a starting point, the club opens up a dialogue on reality, displacement, and the complex journeys of LGBTQ+ refugees.

The discussion invites participants to share reflections, examine the themes addressed in the novel, and bring together perspectives on migration and affective diversity depicted in contemporary literature.

📚 Facilitation and venue

The in-person session is facilitated by Edith Laverde, an LGBTQ+ refugee from Colombia, who guides the dialogue and the exchange of viewpoints among attendees.

The gathering takes place at Biblioteca Andreu Nin in Ciutat Vella, brought together by the CCAR (Comissió Catalana d’Acció pel Refugi).

✨ A literary meeting space to converse on diversity, asylum, and shared memory.