An activist, advocate, and abolitionist, Janetta Louise Johnson’s (she/her) leadership, testimony, and radical compassion and perseverance is an inspiration to the many people that know her and admire her from afar.

As militantes afro-brasileiras LGBTQ + estão revolucionando a política em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil. Você precisa saber seus nomes.

A radical Black lesbian feminist activist icon, Barbara Smith laid a formidable blueprint and foundation to intersectional Black feminist thought and behavior. Black feminism would not be where it is today without the power of Smith’s work, leadership, and commitment to the liberation struggle.

In a white, cisheteronormative, patriarchal, and capitalist world that chronically enacts violence against the Black transgender community, activist, actress, and community organizer Ianne Fields Stewart (she/her/they/them) is catalyzing safe and luxurious spaces where the Black transgender community is not only seen and heard but are being fed.

For Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, who is popularly known as Lady Phyll (she/hers/hers), Black Queer Feminist Belonging does not mean creating collectives in response to white exclusion––it means recognizing that Black LGBTQ+ people in the United Kingdom exist whether they are in those spaces or not.

When it comes to the future of Black liberation, writer and activist Vanessa Taylor (she/her/they/them) wants you to know that Black Muslims will be there. In catalyzing and curating spaces of Belonging for Black queer and transgender Muslims, specifically, she also wants you to know that they too, have always been here––and they have something to say and more importantly, are here to stay.  

Black Women Radicals’ Blog, “Voices in Movement” welcomes you to engage with our Black History Month 2020 theme, #MakingBlackQueerHistory: Black LGBTQ+ Women and Non-Binary Student-Activism at HBCUs.

Student-activist and actor Moses Bossenbroek (they/them/she/her) will not be bound by binaries, boundaries, and borders at Howard University and beyond.

A two-time alumnus of Howard University, Victoria Kirby Elliott York (she/her/hers) is adamant about HBCUs claiming, acknowledging, and honoring the power of queer student-activism, leadership, and legacy on their campuses.  

Queer non-binary student-activist Imani Bryant (they/them/she/her) has made it plain and clear they will not choose between their queerness and Blackness. 

Michaela Moore (she/her/hers) is a leading a LGBTQ+ student movement at Fayetteville State University to ensure all colors of the spectrum are represented and included at the historically Black university. 

Jasmine J. Moye’s interview is a part of ‘Voices in Movement’ February 2020 theme, #MakingBlackQueerHisory: Black LGBTQ+ Women and Non-Binary Student Activism at HBCUs.  To read the descriptor, please click here. 

Alexis D. Henninger (who uses all pronouns) believes all HBCUs should explicitly be committed in creating safe and inclusive campuses for LGBTQ+ students.