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BQIC is a grassroots community organization in Central Ohio that works towards the liberation of Black queer, trans, and intersex people from all walks of life through direct action, community organizing, education on our issues, and creating spaces to uplift our voices.

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Happy Birthday to our movement mother Marsha P. Johnson! 🌹❤️

Thank you so much to all who came out to the Member Meeting & Harm Reduction training yesterday! If you were unable to make it out, we have some leftover Narcan and Naloxone that we’re happy to share. We’ll be sending out notes from this meeting and last months meeting soon! In the meantime, save the dates for upcoming ways to plug in! Our Community Building team will be back at the MLK Library passing out free clothes, food, and hygiene items for Free Resource Friday on August 30th; Consciousness-Raising will be getting back together at Art Outside the Lines for Black Power Book Club on September 10th @ 7:00 PM! We’ll be covering the second half of Are Prisons Obsolete together; and our Money Making team will be putting on our monthly Open Mic and Fundraiser right afterwards at 8:00 PM on September 10th. Love and solidarity to you, we’ll see you soon! If you are looking to be more involved with planning any of these initiatives or bringing some of your own, hit us up in our DMs or by email (blackqueercolumbus@gmail.com) ❤️

Tomorrow at 6:00 PM at the Parsons Library Branch, we’ll be back at it again with another BQIC member meeting! This meeting is exclusively for all people identifying as Black and LGBTQIA+. We will have a training for the first hour in harm reduction with a radical Black queer and trans lens. We need to make sure our community has the skills to look out for ourselves and each other in the midst of the opioid crisis, so come learn! We will be distributing free Narcan and fentanyl testing strips, as well as leading a training on how to use these materials! The second hour we will focus on BQIC work; the solidarity work were doing with other groups; and discussing the Halloween partnership with House of Bacchus! See you soon 💜

Our newest initiative is the Black Power Book Club, a place for Black LGBTQIA+ people to raise our consciousness on all things pro-Black, pro-trans, pro-queer, pro-LIBERATION! The first Black Power Book Club meeting will be August 13th, 2019 at 7:00 at Art Outside the Lines (the hour before BQIC Spoken Word). We will be discussing the first three chapters of "Are Prisons Obsolete" by Angela Davis (pages 9-60). Link to PDF, we can also email/DM: https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Are_Prisons_Obsolete_Angela_Davis.pdf Read up and come ready to speak your mind on Tuesday in the Black Power Book Club! Even if you don’t finish, the conversation will still be an insightful one! *This space is exclusively for people who identify as Black and LGBTQIA+*

BQIC's monthly fundraiser is back on Tuesday August 13th! Doors at 8, show starts 8:30! Come out and share your poems, songs, monologues, inner musings, good encounters, bad days etc. on the mic! LGBTQIA+ people of color take priority within the space! Entry is a $5 suggested donation! We will have beverages and snacks for suggested donations as well! Please also consider donating art supplies to Art Outside the Lines which is a great art program run by people with disabilities. We will have the lovely Monee Jae to MC the event, our DJ for the evening is TBA! Hit us up beforehand to put your name down on the list to perform! You can also sign up at the door once you arrive. Don't forget to bring a friend/lover/comrade with you <3

BQIC Monthly Member Meetings are back!! We appreciate the grace you've given us to take some time off after Columbus Community Pride! After this meeting, Member Meetings will be the 3rd Wednesday of every month at the Parsons Library Branch. We will host a training for the first hour titled "Abolition 101: Securing a World without Policing or Prisons." This training will review what prison abolition is, the importance of abolition work for Black LGBTQIA+ people, and how we can do that work together in Columbus. During the second hour, we will discuss upcoming opportunities for new members to get plugged into BQIC's work, from our Free Resource Fridays to our next spoken word to our solidarity work with the #FreeMasonique campaign. See you soon, fam! Don't forget to bring a friend <3 ** This space is exclusively for people who identify as Black and LGBTQIA+ ** To learn more about the collective, check out our website: bqic.net

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