Amber J.
Phillips
Amber J. Phillips is a storyteller, filmmaker, and creative director. She creates world building narratives using warm visuals and vulnerable performances through her lens of being a fat Black queer femme auntie from the Midwest. Amber is devoted to using radical Black queer imagination to create stories, art, culture, and community.
Abundance
Amber recently released her first short film, Abundance about the limitations and radical possibilities of identity. Abundance was most recently a 2021 BlackStar Film Festival selection and won the audience award for Best Short Narrative. Currently, her writings on Black queer life, culture, and gender can be found on Refinery29’s Unbothered, ESSENCE, and as a staple on her Instagram.
Ample World
Ample World is a place for people to commune with each other, music, art history and Black creativity at scale. Ample World is a digital and physcial stage and archival space for Black lesbian curation that impacts and moves popular culture globally.
This work travels physical pieces of art, memorabilia, and archival pieces.
We are an innovative cultural insitution.
LOVE IS NOT A FANTASY
Love is not a Fantasy is a local and global practice of safety, access, and celebration of black lesbian and queer families.
We are a memory garden of documentation, an honoring of the black lesbian matriarchs who have impacted our society.
We are a resouce for black lesbian queer families who seek access to family planning, such as IVF, child care, and emotional support.
