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We invite Black LGBTQIA+ people from all backgrounds to join BQIC!

Come out to our first new member info session to learn about BQIC’s revamped mission and principles, where we’re going, and how to get involved! We will also do a short interactive game where we’ll get to know each other. Food will be provided by Nola Way, Southern-style cooking from the 504 to the 614. RSVP to secure your free dinner!

Date: Monday, November 19th
Time: 6:30-8pm
Location: Parsons Metropolitan Library, 1113 Parsons Ave

ACCESSIBILITY: The Parsons Metropolitan Library Branch is wheelchair accessible and has wheelchair accessible bathrooms. Please let us know if you need any accommodations such as ASL or other language interpretation, childcare, or visual descriptions for this meeting and we will provide them.

NOTE: Please respect that this meeting is for only people who identify as both Black and LGBTQIA+.

We want to acknowledge and honor that Ohio consists of land belonging to tribes including the Wyandotte, Mingo, Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, Huron, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa; our presence on this land relies on the violence that has been enacted upon the people indigenous to this area. Christopher Columbus was a leader in the systematic eradication of indigenous people and their livelihoods, and these centuries of pain still reverberate for living indigenous folks today. We refuse to continue paying homage to an agent of colonialism, genocide, and displacement with our group’s name, so effective today, October 22, 2018, we are changing our name to Black Queer & Intersectional Collective. As a group working towards the liberation of those who are oppressed, we at BQIC want to emphasize our commitment to the people. We recognize that we cannot achieve our supreme self-determination as Black queer and trans people if indigenous and native people anywhere are deprived of theirs; we aim to make this a step of many towards decolonizing ourselves and towards being in solidarity with our indigenous siblings.

As we move forward with BQIC, we move forward collectively towards a world where we are all free.

Land info: http://convention.myacpa.org/columbus2017/indigenous-ohio/