BY MIMI TEMPESTT

Blackness has room for inquisition and insight, specifically amongst black people who identify as gay, bisexual, trans, gender nonconforming and queer. The black community is in a state of flux regarding queerness, and more specifically, in a state of stagnancy when discovering how to have healthy conversations in approaching these intersections of identity. What is robbed from black queer people, is a sense of safety and home when feelings of homophobia and transphobia are typically the point of entry for discourse that is expressed in the media. Meaning that people who are black and queer often experience violence at the hands of the world, which upholds racist, homophobic, sexist and transphobic ideologies, but also at the hands of those within our own communities. My intention in creating Black.Queer.Alive is to facilitate positive and honest conversations surrounding the complexity of this identity through a variety of perspectives, first-hand accounts and insights.

SEASON ONE