Category: Long Read
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LONG READ: A RENAISSANCE OF OUR OWN?
Is 2023 when we start to be at the centre of our own narratives, creating spaces in our image and in response to our needs? Are we ready? Join us online for part 2 of our #placeforus conversation at 7pm TONIGHT Feb 15 link.outsavvy.com/aplaceforus
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LONG READ: A DREAM NO LONGER ON MUTE
The future of BLKOUT_UK Consultation opens NYD and lasts all of January. Here’s your chance to show us how Black queer men can continue #makingspaceforus
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Read: CLIMATE & RACIAL JUSTICE REQUIRE AN END TO GASLIGHTING
At COP26 there was much discussion of the short-term sacrifices required for global gain. If we fail to shift taken-for-granted paradigms, we will find our resources depleted and our humanity at risk. Whether persistent racism or climate emergency – it’s beyond time to end the gaslighting.
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REPORT: IN THE PICTURE
Download the report of BLKOUT’s 2021 community led research project ‘In The Picture’
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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
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BlackOut: what’s the big idea?
Black queer men creating the new; shared spaces for shared futures BlackOut disrupts stubborn patterns of social marginalisation, exclusion, and precarity by creating a beacon media brand, digital platform and collaboration hub that connects Black Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer men to each other and mobilises them in actions to support voice, authentic visibility, resilience, wealth, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, health/wellbeing…
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Long read: Four Wo(ke)men
Inspired by Nina Simone’s Four Women, I contemplate what it might mean to be a ‘woke’ or ‘woke enough’ black gay man.