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CONNECTs

“When ‘I’ is replaced with ‘We’, even illness becomes wellness”
Malcolm X

EVENTS
- We host a calendar of fun, collaborative events that make space for Black queer men to connect, build supportive friendship networks, and share experiences
BLKOUTHUB app
- We pool our resources and energy to create 24/7 peer support community via the BLKOUTHUB app, our own bespoke digital space designed by and for its members
NETWORKS
- We nurture networks of mutual aid, shared learning, and enable new adventures

CREATEs

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.“
James Baldwin

THE BLKOUT REVIEW & BLOG
- We host platforms for our ideas and insights; generating and sharing digital content by us and for us
CULTURAL MEETUPS
- We organise theatre, gallery and cinema trips, to take inspiration from arts and culture
PRODUCTION
- We co-produce performances, publications and creative events with Black queer lives at their centre that help us to imagine and realise fiercer, fairer futures

Express yourself

CAREs

“Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless… You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.”
Audre Lorde

HEALING & COMMUNITY HEALTH
- We take a trauma-informed approach to health, creating opportunities for collective healing and peer support
CAMPAIGNS
- We help to build habits of solidarity among Black queer men and our communities, by sharing information and mobilising supportive action across generation, identity, and region.
LEADERSHIP
- Together, our members govern, lead, and deliver our mission in response to our concerns, hopes, and ambitions

Grow stronger, together

WATCH: INVESTMENT IN US – stronger together

All we want, for Christmas and beyond – 3 things you can do to help us build community and transform lives

14 December 2022
LISTEN: IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY

When we forget that the way it is, is not the way it has to be, we give up our power over the future Have your say on how Londoners can hold their police service to account

25 November 2022
TAKE PART: In My Mind Conference Correspondents

Be one of our UK conference correspondents Contact us to join the online conference live, or sign up to view the recorded proceedings

7 October 2022
WATCH: INVESTMENT IN US – a community accelerated

At the start of Black History Month, we are looking forward. Making history, taking action. Take 10 minutes to reflect with us on what the future could hold as we set out our vision for the future – the BLKOUT Community Accelerator

4 October 2022

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