Celebrating Black, Queer and Trans-Caribbean histories and futures.
Saturday, February 22, 2025 • 5:00 pm
⚲ BK Pride Ctr: 1561 Bedford Avenue, Suite Ground A, Brooklyn, NY, 11225
Commemorating Black History Month at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center in Little Caribbean, Brooklyn.
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. From this event Black Future Tings was born, and now takes place in person, annually in honor of the resilience of the African diaspora and encouraging participants and envision a beautiful, Black Queer-centric future. 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 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, Black Future Tings honors the diversity, creativity, and strength of the Black Queer community. Each year focuses on a different theme, with the last two editions themes being “Standing in Solidarity with Black Trans Lives” and “Honoring Black Queer Excellence” respectively.
Black Future Tings 2025
Black Future Tings 2024These editions highlighted 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. Black Future Tings 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. Black Future Tings’ 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 a moment 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 LGBTQ+ 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.
