During this Black Futures Month, Rocky Mountain Equality is prioritizing the protection, wellness, and health of Black and Brown bodies, minds, and futures.
This February, we want to continue the work and dreams of Black and Brown activists and promote this time of rest, celebration, and healing for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) families and community members. We will continue to connect, learn, and support the work of Afrofuturists and other Black, Brown, Indigenous, trans, and queer leaders and scholars during Black Futures Month and in the months to come.
We know that this time is tumultuous for our melanated community members of all experiences and intersections. Right now, we must look to the future as the inalienable right that all people are afforded. We must encourage ourselves, our communities, and our loved ones to reflect on how we can become active in this fight against injustice.
During this time, we must persevere. We can best show up when we protect and prioritize the dignity and safety of our melanated neighbors, partners, children, and friends. We ALL thrive, when we are ALL safe. Let us look to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, as an ancestral example that encourages equanimity, respect, and dignity, as well as liberation for all.
To support melanated folks this Black Futures Month, Rocky Mountain Equality will continue to prioritize the work, the liberation, and the expression of queer and trans people of color (QTPOC). Our KIKI and drag community members continue to show up and actively manifest the dreams of our melanated community members by fostering liberating and innovative spaces that revolutionize our visions of what is possible for our collective future.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.” Let us remember that the days ahead are not a reflection of the future that is still possible. We are all on this mountain top together, and the stars are the limit. We must not look back, we must not reverse our progress that so many before us have fought to build.
We must continue to strive, long, and yearn for a future that is not plagued with ignorance, dissonance, and hatred. Black Futures Month is a time to celebrate, rectify, and embolden the reach of young melanated voices. We must continue to amplify and prioritize our instinct to become more, and strive for better in our world. We cannot give up the fight for justice, liberty, and true freedom for all: All love, all skin, all kin, and all beings. Black and Brown trans voices must become the center of our journey to collective transformation, and we must continue to preserve the lives, well-being, and rights of QTPOC, women, neurodivergents, seniors, BIPOC, immigrants, and otherly abled folx.
It is through the magic of our collective effervescence and our hunger for truth, that we will be sustained and made whole in our communities. Let us continue to share love and dignity with each other, as we continue to move forward through this time.