“{B/qKC} is an act of radical love. in an age where the Powerful are actively trying to suppress our access to information, it is more important than ever to document our histories––especially the Oppressed.

the word queer has purposely been chosen for this project. to loosely quote the theorist (and an inspiration and virtual friend) Da’Shaun L. Harrison: being gay is an identity. being queer is a politic. before hitting the mainstream, queer was used to describe anti-assimilation––most notably at the end of the 1980’s when groups like ACT UP positioned themselves as anti-US sexual politic. being queer meant more than simply identifying, loving or having sex beyond what was considered ‘normal.’ it meant directly standing in opposition to cis-heternormativity––willing to put oneself on the line for the dynamism of the human condition.

queerness is, thus, antithetical to white supremacy.

the people presented in this Volume were not simply in the world as ones who love and fuck freely; the people presented in this Volume were with the world as ones who were changing their fates in real-time. they were not willing to let the State––as socially-constructed and ruled by whiteness––determine their livelihood (at least in ways they could control).

so, again, {B/qKC} is not simply a historical retelling. it is an anthological database of queer people utilizing love to change our collective future.
of Black folk, by Black folk.”