Black Future Tings: Honoring Black Queer Excellence

Date and Time: Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 5 PM
Location: Brooklyn Community Pride Center - 1561 Bedford Avenue, Suite Ground A, Brooklyn 11225
This event is free and open to all, and registration is required.

Join Caribbean Equality Project for its annual Black Future Tings event commemorating Black History Month at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center in Brooklyn, New York!

On Saturday, February 22, 2025, we will host the 4th installment of “Black Future Tings,” a one-night event commemorating Black History Month and celebrating 10 exciting years of CEP's existence!

The 2025 celebration centers CEP's 10-year focus on Black. Caribbean. Trans. Immigrant. Radical. Futurism. Community members, artists, and activists will come together to help us honor the resilience of the African diaspora and envision a beautiful, Black Queer-centric future.

Black Future Tings: Honoring Black Queer Excellence is an evening of artistic expression, dedicatedly focused conversations, and a celebration of the demonstrated strength and power of our Black Queer community. This event offers a platform to amplify the stories and contributions of Black LGBTQ+ people who have historically been overlooked and underrepresented. Through a dynamic blend of storytelling, performances, panel discussions, and art, we will honor the diversity, creativity, and strength of the Black Queer community. Black Future Tings centers the past and present radical imagination of the most consistently marginalized people in our LGBTQI+ communities, boldly declaring a manifest for the future of unadulterated life and liberation for all.

The 4th edition of Black Future Tings is decidedly themed “Honoring Black Queer Excellence” as we 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. Honoring Black Queer Excellence seeks to uplift Black Queer narratives, providing space for personal stories of joy, struggle, and transformation. This event also serves as an opportunity to foster dialogue about the intersections of race, gender, and identity, and to advocate for greater inclusion, justice, and support for Black Queer individuals in all spheres of life. Our particular focus is the resilience demonstrated by Queer bodies within the diaspora– which will continue to play a key role in unlocking the full liberation of Black people everywhere.

In 2021, Caribbean Equality Project launched a virtual Black community-centered event surrounding Queer and Trans-Caribbean histories and contemporary lived realities. As we are now in year six of this new decade – and are already underway into a new political administration that has veered sharply right into frenetic extremism against our Trans and Queer siblings and family – we are emphatically defining who and what we are for ourselves.

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 Co-Chair, Theo Brown, at info@CaribbeanEqualityProject.org or our Trans Justice Unit Coordinator, Tiffany Jade Munroe, at tiffany@caribbeanequalityproject.org.

To learn more about the Caribbean Equality Project & for regular updates on our work, connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube at @CaribbeanEqualityProject, and Twitter at @CaribEquality.