Author: blkoutuk

  • Read: Watch This Space Martin Patrick

    Read: Watch This Space Martin Patrick

    Life doesn’t exist if there are no words to recount what truthfully happened to us.

  • READ: Unlearning Daddy Lessons

    READ: Unlearning Daddy Lessons

    I have learned from experience that this kind of argument with white men is generally futile, that any point you make is seldom applied within the winder context of inequality. It is applied only to an individual’s hurt.

  • #BlackOutUKfundamentals

    #BlackOutUKfundamentals

    At the end of my post yesterday  On Moonlight and Reading Critical Reviews  I assert the importance of reading Black gay writers and how the words I read take on a different meaning when I believe the writer possesses a meaningful awareness of my perspective. Is this true for you? Let see! Over the next month BlackOut…

  • On Moonlight and Reading Critical Reviews #BlackOutUKfundamentals

    On Moonlight and Reading Critical Reviews #BlackOutUKfundamentals

    We’re counting down the days until the screening of Moonlight at the Ritzy on Thursday 9th February at 9pm and the Moonlight Celebration Event on the 12 February at 7.30pm at the Upstairs at Ritzy.  We hope to see you at both these BlackOut Launch events! I’ve been lucky to attend a screening of the Moonlight in…

  • Read: Solo Musketeer

    Read: Solo Musketeer

    Fine if that’s how they want it! I’ll keep myself to myself. But if they think that I’m going to pick up the phone first, they’re in for a long wait!

  • Self care: 10 tips for maintaining good mental health in 2017

    Self care: 10 tips for maintaining good mental health in 2017

    January often comes with a refocus of what our goals, aspirations and resolutions for the year are . . . shouldn’t we all take a pledge to look after our mental health?

  • Dance: DJ Sydney UltraOmni – English Breakfast London

    Dance: DJ Sydney UltraOmni – English Breakfast London

    https://soundcloud.com/sydneyultraomni/mixtape-vol-2-131017-black-out-uk-edition BlackoutUK:  English Breakfast London is tearing up London’s scene – what’s the secret of your success? Sydney: Well, it has really been a labour of love that Jay Jay Revlon and I put out there. I think our night stands out as we’re two young, black queer people who put on the evening for…

  • Read: Born this way? My gay age

    Read: Born this way? My gay age

    I was born this way, but I didn’t always know it. . .My gay age starts; my gay birth if you will; from when I began to accept my sexual identity more deeply; when I began a more complex negotiation and linkage of what I desired sexually and my role in society.