Category: History
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WATCH THIS SPACE: LLOYD YOUNG & ‘THE BLACK EXPERIENCE’
BLKOUT: Welcome to BLKOUT_UK. Tell our readers who you are LLOYD: I’m Lloyd. I’m a 56 year old Black gay man BLKOUT: Where are you from? LLOYD: I was born in Islington, North London . . . My parents originate from Jamaica. They arrived in the UK in the early 1950s – they’re from the…
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PLEDGE: PEARL’S RETURN
Pearl’s Return; a recyclable, popup event, art, and social club – reviving a lost Black gay bar from 1970s Brixton, to create a networked destination for expression, connections, and Black LGBTQ+ joy
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READ: COVID-19, the racist!
Later today (Sun 6th Dec) we launch our new regular event format – A S S E M B L Y Join us for an engaging, action-focused review of UK based, Black heritage and history interventions, and where our Black queer lives – starting at 6pm
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Read: We’re all Black Queer Men now
New, community-led research report from BLKOUT_UK, the Black queer men’s collective, presents the results of a ground-breaking research project
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COMPETE: THE BLKOUT BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUIZ 2020
It’s Not Black History Month if it doesn’t include Black Queer folk . . .Did you think there wouldn’t be a test? There’s always a test!
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VIDEO: can we talk?
“Selfie-obsessed, avocado toast-chomping, snowflake!” “Property-hoarding, climate-change complacent, bed-blocker!” “Read a book!” “OK. Boomer!” The combination of ever-increasing speed in technological change, rising life expectancy, a period of relative economic stability, the hard-fought-for (yet still unfinished) liberation struggles, the loosening of traditional, restrictive social ties (for many), and the decline of social mobility, means that it…
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read: windrush – a collection saved (part 2): wisdom shared
A ‘lost’ collection of photographs stirred deep emotions and memories for Dirg. Dirg’s father, John A. Richards, also in reflective mood shares his 1st poem ‘Keep a check on your ledger’. Written when we was 93 years old.