Category: Identity

  • 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!

  • REPORT: IN THE PICTURE

    REPORT: IN THE PICTURE

    Download the report of BLKOUT’s 2021 community led research project ‘In The Picture’

  • launch: WE_ARE_BLKOUT

    BLKOUT_UK has come out of the quiet, forming networks for voice, resilience, and joy – building a new kind of community among those too often let down by communities. Look out for our latest research ‘In The Picture’ published later this week

  • Read: UK Black Pride – A deeper love

    Having sampled the taste for collective, community ownership at UK Black Pride, the last decade has witnessed Black and minority ethnic queer communities start to take ownership in other spaces and reach for more ambitious goals. UK Black Pride has been instrumental in that change.

  • Long Read: Out of Place, Again?

    In this provocative discussion paper, Rob Berkeley argues that a too-simplistic definition of community as ‘place’ or neighbourhood serves to perpetuate exclusion and inequality for minority communities – including Black queer men

  • Vote: Say it with your chest

    Vote for your favourite design on The BlackOut HUB – say it with your chest

  • READ: There’s Something Up With This Picture

    Staff associations set up to challenge exclusion are perpetuating the very things they seek to challenge.

  • 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…