Revolutionary transgender activist, elder, and icon, Miss Major, shares her thoughts and perspectives on police brutality, the current protests, and why we still have a long way to go to truly make all Black lives matter.
Read MoreAn 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.
Read MoreAs militantes afro-brasileiras LGBTQ + estão revolucionando a política em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil. Você precisa saber seus nomes.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreBlack 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.
Read MoreStudent-activist and actor Moses Bossenbroek (they/them/she/her) will not be bound by binaries, boundaries, and borders at Howard University and beyond.
Read MoreJustice Hicks (she/her/hers) shares her perspectives on being transgender at an HBCU and why LGBTQ+ student groups on campus need more support.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreQueer 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.
Read MoreMichaela 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.
Read MoreJasmine 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.
Read MoreAlexis D. Henninger (who uses all pronouns) believes all HBCUs should explicitly be committed in creating safe and inclusive campuses for LGBTQ+ students.
Read MoreAs the president of Bowie State University’s student organization, the Gay-Straight Alliance, Zenobia Fenrick (she/her/hers) is working to build a formidable Black queer consciousness and movement on campus.
Read MoreJasmine Cameron (she/her/hers) shares her perspectives and experiences of being a lesbian student-activist at an HBCU.
Read MoreA pioneering activist and advocate, Tamika Spellman (she/her/hers) is leading a movement so that present and future Black and Brown sex workers in Washington, D.C., can truly know what full freedom and Belonging is and means in a world that tries to criminalize and control their bodily and political autonomy and agency.
Read MoreA community organizer, leukemia warrior, and poet, Walela Nehanda (they/them/theirs) is for the liberation of their people. And in the movement to free Black people, Nehanda has proven time and time again they will always rise to the occasion.
Read MoreMeet Alexis Grady: The Queer Non-Binary Student-Activist Who Is On A Mission To Ensure LGBTQ+ Student Representation At Howard University.
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