Category: Solidarity
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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
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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.
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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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Event: Black Gay Pride Worldwide
Global Black Gay Men Connect (GBGMC), in partnership with Grindr, are hosting a global virtual Black Gay Pride Event on Friday 10 July 2020.
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DANCE: UNBREAKABLE, GET DOWN ON LOCKDOWN
Over 400 people came to party last weekend – but the tech let us down and we had to stop early. BlackOut isn’t that easily defeated! Plus the music was too good not to share with you. So this weekend we’re releasing DJ sets from our amazing partner clubs. Starting with Caramel Mafia from Ratchet…
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Event: Bored yet? Let’s get down on lockdown
On Sat 16th May, BlackOut invites Black bi/gay and/or trans men from across the UK to download, tune in, kick back and party – at home. ‘Get Down On Lockdown’ will be livestreamed from The BlackOut Hub mobile app.
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Event: Community Roulette April 2020
Thanks for signing up for Community Roulette on The BlackOut HUB for April. Here’s how it works . . .
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Create: T-shirt 2020 Design and win!!
Black queer men, get your thinking caps on, get drawing, and submit your t-shirt design to blkoutuk@gmail.com as a digital image (photo, scanned drawing, graphic) by 9am Monday 4th May