Black Future Tings: Standing in Solidarity with Black Trans Lives
Date and Time: Saturday, February 24, 2024 | 5 PM
Location: Brooklyn Community Pride Center - 1561 Bedford Avenue, Suite Ground A, Brooklyn 11225
Join Caribbean Equality Project for its annual Black Future Tings event commemorating Black History Month at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center in Little Caribbean, Brooklyn.
Join us on Saturday, February 24, 2024, for Black Future Tings: Standing in Solidarity with Black Trans Lives, an evening of artistic expression, dedicatedly focused conversations, and a celebration of the demonstrated strength and power of our Black Trans community. The program features Keynote remarks from Trans Icon Ceyenne Doroshow, Founder of GLITS. Annually, Black Future Tings centers the past and present radical imagination of the most consistently marginalized people in our LGBTQ+ communities, boldly declaring a manifest for the future of unadulterated life and liberation for all.
The 3rd edition of Black Future Tings is themed “Standing in Solidarity with Black Trans Lives,” as we decidedly highlight communities throughout the African diaspora that have demonstrated the capacity to rebound and rebuild time and time again in the face of harm, erasure, and destruction. We understand that this demonstrated Stand in Solidarity –and in particular, the resilience that has been demonstrated by Trans bodies within the diaspora–will continue to play a key role in unlocking the full liberation of Black peoples in general.
In 2021, Caribbean Equality Project launched a virtual Black community-centered event surrounding Queer and Trans-Caribbean histories and contemporary lived realities of marginalization, struggle, resistance, and liberation.
Four years into the new decade, defined by colliding pandemics, increasing political and social fracture, environmental crises, and rapid technological advancements, communities everywhere are repositioning themselves through specificity, emerging identities, and politics. In this societal upheaval, Black Trans Caribbean immigrants have been presented with new opportunities to define who and what we are for ourselves in relation to the global and diasporic community.
This event is being organized in partnership with Caribbean Equality Project's Trans Justice Unit. If you have any questions, please email Caribbean Equality Project's Board Chair, Theo Brown, at info@CaribbeanEqualityProject.org or Trans Justice Coordinator Tiffany Jade Munroe, at tiffany@caribbeanequalityproject.org.
This program is made possible by a Community Project Grant awarded by the NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
