MICHELLE JONES is living the Black American dream. She has a nice condo, a great girlfriend, and a foot on the rung of professional ascension. After her girlfriend relocates to Los Angeles for work, Michelle decides to move there after her work contract ends and plans a marriage proposal for her girlfriend’s upcoming visit. She puts her condo on the market and spends her time packing and hanging out with her twin brother KYLE JONES and her close circle of sister friends DANA WILLIAMS, PAM MORRIS, and NARI DIAZ.

Like the biblical Job (if he were a black queer woman), Michelle loses everything in one fatal swoop. The series follows Michelle’s climb from professional and personal rock bottom; and each of her friends’ support in the process as well as their own negotiations of sex, love, and relationships in a contemporary segregated city. They deal with gender labels, sexual orientations, and class divisions in Chicago’s queer communities of color.

Quare Life centers the experiences of black queer women -- marginalized by race, sexuality and gender. Queer women of color are currently at the helm of social/political movements such as Black Lives Matter and Black Youth 100, yet their cinematic representations remain limited to roles of one-dimensional side kick characters. Social media and commentary reflect the current outrage against a severe lack of racial diversity and intersectional diversity in media as evidenced by hastags #OscarsSoWhite and boycotts of whitewashed films that erase racially and ethnically marginalized characters.