- The Advantage of Being Everywhere — Rob Berkeley
Black queer men live in every London borough, and every borough behaves as if we don't. BLKOUT Local is fourteen pages that say otherwise — built from research, corrected by the people who actually live there, and arrivi
- Our Black Gay Diaspora: A UK Playlist — Rob Berkeley
Since 2021, Erick Taylor Woodby has recorded more than two dozen conversations with Black queer Britons for Our Black Gay Diaspora. He has now gathered them into one list — the fullest record yet of who has sat in that c
- What Do We Own Together? — Rob Berkeley
In September 2023, before the wind-up and the rebuild, Rob Berkeley sat down for a podcast interview and said the quiet part out loud: he started BLKOUT to save his own life. Revisiting that conversation ahead of this No
- Making Space for Us: a decade of BLKOUT on Twitter — Rob Berkeley
BLKOUT has left X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Before we went, we took everything — 40,641 tweets, twelve years, a whole ecosystem of Black queer voice. This is what the archive tells us, and why the taking m
- Ten reasons Instagram ain't the one — Rob Berkeley
Let me start by admitting the obvious, which is that I like it. Instagram asks almost nothing of you — the lowest bar to entry Black queer organising in this country has ever had. This is not a piece about a wicked platf
- Meet the Board — Rob Berkeley
Six Black queer men volunteering their time to govern BLKOUT as a cooperative. Here’s who they are and why they’re here.
- The Secret History of Harlem’s Underground: How Two Artists Redefined the ‘New Negro’ — Rob Berkeley
In the basements of 1920s Harlem, two artists painted a version of Black identity that the daylight couldn’t hold. Their technique — murals that transformed under coloured light — is the direct inspiration for the instal
- The Suitcase That Was Never Opened — Rob Berkeley
Ivor Cummings was the first Black official in the Colonial Office, the man who welcomed the Windrush generation, and gay. His story disappeared for thirty years. This Sunday, BLKOUT brings it back.
- We Tried to Find Our Community. The Platforms Said No. — Rob Berkeley
What happened when a Black queer organisation tried to map its own network — and what it means for all of us.
- Temples For Tomorrow: Black Queer Innovation, Routes to Radical Futures — Dr Rob Berkeley
In 1926, Langston Hughes wrote the foreword to Fire!! magazine with words that still burn bright. A century on, Black queer innovation continues to build temples for tomorrow — from the dancefloors of Chicago to liberati
- Let's Go Out Out This Christmas: 24 Days of Showing Up — Rob Berkeley
For 24 days this December, I'm attending community events across London. Not as a journalist parachuting in. Not as a critic rating the décor. As someone who, like many of us, sometimes finds it easier to stay home than
- One Month Later: Are Pride's Anonymous Board Proud? — Rob Berkeley
Quick to litigate, slow to investigate - the treatment of Christopher Joell-DeShields exposes who really thinks they run our movements
- PLATFORM FOR COMMUNITY = LIBERATION: The Forward Archive — BLKOUTUK Liberation Collective
Build tomorrow's history today! Our forward archive preserves community memory and creates digital commons that we own collectively.
- BLKOUTHUB: Where UK Black Queer Men Finally Breathe — BLKOUTHUB Community
Finally breathe freely! BLKOUTHUB is sanctuary for UK Black Queer men - networking, friendships, and mentorship without the performance.
- NEWS: Our Stories, Our Power, Our Time — BLKOUTUK News Collective
Become the media! Share truths mainstream won't touch and celebrations they'd never understand. Our stories, our power, our time.
- IVOR: Your Growing Digital Companion — BLKOUTUK Tech Collective
Meet IVOR - AI that loves us back! Named after IVOR Cummings, our digital companion learns our ways of being and languages of liberation.
- GOVERNANCE: Real Power, Real People, Real Change — BLKOUTUK Governance Collective
Real democracy starts here! Join our Community Benefit Society where membership means real ownership, real power, and real change in our community.
- EVENTS: Where Loneliness Goes to Die — BLKOUTUK Community Team
End isolation and find your community! Our Events space connects you to gatherings across the UK where you can just BE and find your people.
- Come Through! BLKOUTUK's Digital Home Is Open — BLKOUTUK Editorial Team
BLKOUTUK's new digital platform is live and growing! Join our digital block party where revolution meets joy, and every click builds collective power.
