BLK HISTORY ALL DAY EVERY DAY
Gladys Bentley (1907 - 1960), “Harlem’s most famous Lesbian”
QUEER /TRANS: to think and live outside of the sexual & gender “norm”.
For us, being QUEER is someone who believes in the fluidity of gender and sexuality and lives in that freedom. Being TRANS is identifying with a gender not assigned to you at birth.
For archival purposes, here’s a list of dumb actions Trump 2025 has taken against BLACK and QUEER/TRANS people already, here ya go.
BLKINMOTION is about is uplifting BLACK & QUEER/TRANS (BQT) joy and culture so here’s what beauty we have seen from us this year:
BLKINMOTION & Oakland Black Pride have started a collaboration to throw a huge celebration for Black Queers/Trans Folks in the bay area this year!
BTourmaline has started hosting “A Kinky Convo”, a safe space for BQT folks to learn and discuss Kink Culture!
Doechii, a black queer artist performed for the Grammy’s and popped out at the Superbowl. Basically, we’re taking over national stages, babies!
WE LIVED! If you’re reading this, we are so glad you are alive and WE LOVE WE! please share in the comments more bqt joy & history!
Black history will be celebrated everyday as a way of existence and act of resistance towards this current socio-political trend towards anti-blackness. It is our duty and birthright to celebrate all we overcome on a daily basis and in celebration we learn the power of unity.
Sending love to all who identify as womyn and all who worship womyn. We celebrate all beings constantly pushed to the margins. We shall rise.
What a time to be alive. It has always been a radical time to be BLACK and QUEER/TRANS (BQT). The definitions of these labels seem to constantly be in flux and so we define them for ourselves here and in our collective conscious which no one can take away:
BLACK: to have brown, melanated skin and to be raised in or existing in the context of African-American cultural tradition.
There is ‘nationality’ - where you’re from, and ‘race’ - what you look like. For Black folks, race is more than that, it’s a term that is ever changing; it encompasses our history and our future. Some Africans, African immigrants, 1st or 2nd generation, don’t identify with being BLACK in the context we speak of and live in here, in the states. Same with melanated people of different nationalities. Our histories, though connected, are different and we respect that.
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