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.
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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.
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Sydney Stephens (she/her/hers) wants LGBTQ+ students at HBCUs to know their lives, their politics, their activism, and their humanity matters.
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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.
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Quartice Robinson (she/her/hers) is happy to find queer community and family at Fayetteville State University.
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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.
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Alexis D. Henninger (who uses all pronouns) believes all HBCUs should explicitly be committed in creating safe and inclusive campuses for LGBTQ+ students.
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As 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.
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Queer activist, organizer, and movement journalist, Clarissa Brooks (she/her/hers) is here to remind HBCUs and students alike that respectability politics, symbolic representation, and the limiting narrative of ‘Black Excellence’ will not save us.
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Genderqueer activist, organizer, and environmentalist Eva Dickerson (they/theirs/she/hers) wants more than just LGBTQ+ representation at HBCUs––they want gender equity and gender justice
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Jasmine Cameron (she/her/hers) shares her perspectives and experiences of being a lesbian student-activist at an HBCU.
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Destiny Harris (who uses all pronouns) is tired of the erasure of queer students, organizing, and leadership at HBCUs.
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A 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.
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For Keri Gray (she/her/hers), loving her Black disabled womanhood is not just a radical declaration to the world––it is radical reclamation of self.
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Black women have led the call for reparations since emancipation, but what are politicians, scholars, and activists saying about it today? By holding up the present moment against movement leaders of the past, it became clear to me, among other things, that politically-neutered personal appeals to non-Black, non-enslaved African descended audiences aren’t what we need.
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A 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.
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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka (she/her/hers) was almost kicked out of a community clinic for breastfeeding her newborn baby. After such an unbelievable experience, Sangodele-Ayoka turned her anger into action by co-founding Black Breastfeeding Week and standing in the gap for Black people who breast and chest feed.
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Meet 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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Afro-Brazilian LGBT women activists are revolutionizing politics in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. You need to know their names.
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Ivorian-American women’s rights activist Stephanie Kimou (she/her/hers) was tired of African women being overlooked in the historical and contemporary white spaces of domination in the international development sector. So, she decided to do something about it.
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