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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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Tonight is our second planning meeting for the Columbus March for Black Trans Women! We’ll be meeting at 6:00 PM at @mozaicohio (2228 Summit St) to get more work done. Black folks and POC are invited to join us today, bring a friend and see you there! #blacktranslivesmatter #sayhername #blacklivesmatter #614 #columbus organizeCBUS #asseenincbus Art: Ethan X. Parker

EDIT: The date is wrong on the image. It should read October 16th, 2019. Another great BQIC meeting comin at you TONIGHT! All Black LGBTQIA+ people are welcome to join us at 6:00 PM tonight at the Parsons Library for our Monthly Member Meeting! We won't be having a training this month - this meeting we are focusing on building community in BQIC and getting to know each other better! The second hour we will discuss BQIC work, specifically the upcoming action on Nov 2nd to March for Black Trans Women to honor those we've lost this year. In addition we will be discussing our other BQIC work (Black Power Book Club, Free Resource Fridays, Spoken Word, etc.). See you there! **This space is exclusively for Black LGBTQIA+ people** #asseenincolumbus #614 #BQIC

There’s no “reforming” modern day slavery. There is no “reforming” sites of concentrated violence and abuse. Our inherently racist, ableist, classist, and transmisogynist prison system must be brought down brick by brick and replaced by life-giving structures, resources, and opportunities! ・・・ #repost @lizziemsuarez 𝙒𝙃𝙔 𝙋𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙊𝙉 𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉? 𝙒𝙃𝙔 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙍𝙀𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙈? 🔥🔥🔥 Can we make this a meme? (Lol) / I’m very much in the interest of popularizing knowledge that’s found in books like FIACS - the first chapter of this book alone addresses so many of the questions that people wary about prison abolition have. Although ima keep trying to bring the knowledge to the people regardless, let’s meet halfway and start reading together 🧐#repost @lizziemsuarez ・・・

We are planning a march/protest for November to honor the Black trans women whose lives were tragically cut short this year, and we're asking you to organize this action with us! Come to our public planning meeting this Wednesday October 9th at 7:00, no prior organizing experience necessary. This widespread violence demands not only our immediate attention here in Columbus, but also a deep commitment to the lives and liberation of Black trans women. None of us can get free if Black trans women can’t get free, so let’s get to work! We’ll be meeting this Wednesday at @mozaicohio (2228 Summit St). Bring a friend, see you there! 💙💕🖤 **This meeting is a space for Black people and POC only.

Reposted from our comrades @cbusfreedomcoalition ・・・ SPOTTED IN COLUMBUS OHIO: unknown comrades hung banners which read “safe streets don’t have police” and “avenge Tasjon Tyreek Osbourne” above the 670 E / 71 junction. — Tasjon Tyreek Osbourne (18) was murdered by CPD sgt. Lee Hurst—a bike patrol cop who shot Tasjon after responding to a PARKING COMPLAINT. As Tasjon’s friends and family mourn his death, Hurst is on PAID LEAVE from the department. — Increased bike patrol is just one part of CPD’s “safe streets initiative”; a program which the department is positioning as community-building, but which only brings further surveillance and state violence to predominantly black neighborhoods. In Columbus, “community” programs—and plain-clothes officers—have a long history of corruption. “Safe streets” is just one of many names for this aggressive policing, which has been previously called “summer strike force,” “summer anti-violence initiative,” “summer anti-gang initiative,” and the “community safety initiative.” — As CPD looks for its new chief and continues to push its narrative of good neighborhood relations, we remember all of the black people they have murdered, and the blood on their hands. Rest in power Tasjon Tyreek Osbourne.

@indyamoore predicted what our next selection for Black Power Book Club is! We’ll be reading the first four chapters of Assata: An Autobiography for our next meet-up on October 8th at 7:00 at Art Outside the Lines! Don’t have a physical copy? Head to this link: https://libcom.org/files/assataauto.pdf *This space is for folks who identify as Black and LGBTQIA+* After Black Power Book Club, we’ll be having our monthly Spoken Word and Fundraiser at 8:00! All are welcome to attend and perform! See y’all next week ✊🏾🖤

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