Zulynette Brings Poetry, Performance, and Healing to the Rooftop Soirée

We are proud to welcome Zulynette as one of our featured entertainers, bringing a powerful blend of poetry, performance, storytelling, and community-rooted artistry to our 10th Annual Friends in Diversity: A Rooftop Soirée.

Zulynette, who uses she/ella pronouns, is an award-winning queer Boricua performer, artist, facilitator, and accomplished author. Born in Chicago and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, her work is shaped by a deep love for community and a commitment to creating spaces where people can show up fully, honestly, and boldly.

Her artistry is not performance for performance’s sake. It is an invitation. Through her work, Zulynette invites audiences to be more curious about themselves, more expansive in how they move through the world, and more willing to name the fullness of their own lived experiences. After growing up in hard spaces, she has built a creative practice that turns survival, softness, identity, and healing into something that can be witnessed, shared, and transformed.

Creating Brave Space Through Art

What makes Zulynette’s work so powerful is the way she brings together multiple disciplines. She is not only a performer and poet, but also a skilled facilitator with a Master’s in Social Work and a certification in breathwork. Those parts of her background do not sit separately from her artistry. They are woven into it.

Her workshops and performances are designed to activate the senses while creating brave space for individual and communal healing. That combination matters. In a world where people are often asked to compartmentalize who they are, Zulynette’s work does the opposite. It makes room for the emotional, cultural, creative, and human parts of us to exist at the same time.

For CLGBTCC, that kind of artistry feels deeply aligned with the spirit of our community. Our events are not only about gathering people in a room. They are about creating moments of connection, recognition, joy, and belonging. Zulynette’s work speaks directly to that purpose.

A Voice Rooted in Storytelling

Zulynette is also the Creator and Director of A Little Bit of Death, an annual storytelling event that reflects her larger commitment to truth-telling, reflection, and communal experience. Her creative work often sits at the intersection of poetry, performance, healing, and identity, giving audiences permission to engage with both the tender and powerful parts of their own stories.

She is the author of three books of poetry: Becoming a Soft Woman with a Machete released in 2025, Seeing in the Dark released in 2022, and Building a Powerhouse released in 2017. Across her writing, Zulynette explores the complexity of becoming, surviving, softening, and standing fully in one’s power.

Her work has been featured in They Call Us, the Hartford Courant, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, and other publications. She has also been featured on-air with Connecticut Public Radio and NBC Connecticut, further expanding the reach of her voice and creative impact.

An Artist Who Moves Community Forward

Zulynette’s presence at a CLGBTCC event brings more than entertainment. It brings intention.

As a queer Boricua artist, her work reflects the importance of representation, cultural voice, and creative leadership within LGBTQ+ spaces. As a facilitator, she understands how to hold a room. As a poet, she understands how language can move people. As a performer, she knows how to turn a moment into something memorable.

That is why we are excited for our community to experience her work.

At CLGBTCC, we believe LGBTQ+ business and community spaces should make room for the full range of who we are. The entrepreneurs. The executives. The artists. The advocates. The storytellers. The people building businesses, creating culture, and helping our region imagine something more connected and expansive. Zulynette represents that beautifully.

Whether she is performing, facilitating, writing, or creating poetic shenanigans with her friend Soop on their podcast 2 Daddies & a Poem, Zulynette brings a voice that is bold, grounded, and unmistakably her own. We are honored to welcome Zulynette to the CLGBTCC stage and look forward to sharing her artistry with our community.

Learn more about Zulynette at www.zulynette.com.