BLKOUTUK.COM

Category: Self care

  • Read: Love, Hate, Violence and Us

    Hate is rightly a hot topic in our communities right now; tweets from those who should know better expressing misogyny and homophobia; dating app ‘just-a-preference’ racism, fat-shaming, femme-antagonism and HIV stigmatisation; transphobic media witch-hunts; post-Brexit increases in hate crime; and the exposure of entrenched patterns of sexual harassment in the workplace. What does this tell…

  • Self care: Doing yoga while black

    I’m your stereotypical gay. I was never any good at sports at school. I never got picked for teams and had zero interest in playing ball. I’ve never been a gym bunny. So you wont find me at Fitness First or Virgin Active, getting pumped to fit into that too-tight tee. But I like to…

  • Read: Righting Reflex

    Read: Righting Reflex

    If signs of racism stare us in the face and we are unable to recognise them we are lost as Black gay men.

  • 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?