Queer, Trans + Black Boston

Queer, Trans + Black Boston has been a member of Linktree for 1 year and joined in January 2025. Resources qtBlackBoston has populated their site with include: • Free and Confidential LGBTQ Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-832-1901 • Transgender Emergency Fund – Massachusetts • Queer & Trans Mutual Aid Massachusetts • Fuel Assistance (HEAP) - Action for Boston Community Development • City Life/Vida Urbana (legal housing support) • Food Justice - The Centre JP • Queer and Trans POC Exchange Boston Facebook Group • 3/29: Trans Day of Visibility - March for Trans Lives • 4/26: 60th Anniversary Of 1965 Freedom Rally | Embrace Boston • 4/26: 26th Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup • Volunteer with No New Women's Prison MA • Host a House Party for The Network La Red! • Sign up to be a Reader at Malcolm X Read-a-thon Boston May 17-18, 2025 • Volunteer Opportunities | MassVOTE • Volunteer at Boston Pride for the People! • Become a pen pal to an incarcerated sex worker through SWOP Behind Bars • Get Involved - Mass Trans Political Coalition • Volunteer with Community Servings • Boston Party for Socialism and Liberation | Linktree • Boston Socialist Alternative • All About Love - bell hooks (free digital access) • Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity | C. Riley Snorton (free PDF) • Black History Boston: Combahee River Collective • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century By Timothy Snyder | Internet Archive (free digital access) • Black Women Radicals • Black Queer Studies | Johnson & Henderson (free PDF) • The Wretched of the Earth | Frantz Fanon (free PDF) • What Is Owed? | GBH (7-part podcast on what reparations in Boston could look like) • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome_ America's Legacy of Enduring -- Leary, Joy DeGruy (free PDF) • Basic Black | GBH (“Basic Black is the longest-running program on public television focusing on the interests of people of color”) • EVERY SUNDAY: Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam (21+ - $10 entry) • Black Queer Boston Content Creators To Follow • SIDEWLK — SIDE PRESENTS Physical Space Coming Soon! • Boston LGBTQ+ Museum of Art, History & Culture • ICA Free Thursday Nights (tickets required and become available at 10am day of) • Now through 4/20: Her Portmanteau (a Huntington Theatre play)(ticketed) • now - 5/11: Exhibitions, Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces | Harvard Art Museums (free) • 4/3: Jazz Night - Catherine Bent @ Long Live Roxbury (free - reserve a tix) • 4/4: ArtSpark Presents: The Global Majority Spring Edition (a recurring BIPOC art showcase) (all ages - ticketed) • 4/4-4/15: Wicked Queer Film Festival 41 • 4/12: Luenell LIVE (ticketed) • 4/25: Boston Comics in Color Festival Opening Panel (all ages - free or donation based) • 5/3-5/4: Big Queer Food Fest: Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Culinary Excellence (ticketed) • 5/3-5/4: Can't Stop Hip Hop Conference (free - registration required) • 5/17-5/18: Malcolm X Read-a-thon Boston (in honor of "Roxbury Red's" 100th birthday) • 6/14: Boston Pride for the People • 6/20-7/2: Save the Date! Roxbury International Film Festival 2025 • 6/21: Read My Lips: A Drag Tournament | Huntington Theatre Company • 6/25-6/30: MOMENTUM 2025 | Black Soul Summer (some free events + some ticketed) • 6/28: Boston Arts and Music (BAMS) Fest (by donation) • 2025 Hot Bits Film Fest Dates 🥵 • Dani’s Queer Bar April Events • 3/27: A Toast for the Black Biz Girls (free) • 3/27: Ishq, Identity, and Intersectionality: Lessons Through Storytelling (free) • 3/27: Steep presents: Maxime dB, Katya C at Middlesex (21+ - ticketed) • 3/28: RSVP to dykael’s spring transition takeover (21+ - cash only) • 3/29: FERAL Queer Dance Party (21+ - ticketed) • 3/30: The Beloved Brunch/Day Party (21+ - free entry with RSVP before 4PM) • 3/31: Trans Day of Visibility at the Pryde Center (free - must RSVP for dinner) • 4/3: Queer POC Networking LinkUp at Roxy's Arcade | Frolic Boston (21+) • 4/4-4/7: 10th Annual Boston Swerve Skate Weekend (ticketed) • 4/5: Day JaVu Saturdays | Boston Black Pride (21+ - ticketed) • 4/6: COCO Afro-Caribbean Day Party (ticketed) • 4/11: Bussdown Fridays - DJ Worthy | Frolic Boston (21+ - ticketed) • 4/12: Be Here! Be YOU! Skate Party (Norwood) | Boston Black Pride • 4/12: Clear the Floor QTBIPOC Dance Party (Lowell, MA)(21+ - $20 entry) • 4/12: Boudoir x Beige - A Boston based QUEER underground dance party (first party of the year! ticketed) • 4/12: Dancehall Lounge at Cantab Lounge (21+ - $15 cover) • 4/12: DYKECHELLA (Washington DC - east coast dyke link up) • 4/18: Sinners Movie Private Screening with Haul and Vibe Social Group for Black and Brown Queer Women Professionals (ticketed) • 4/18: Bussdown Fridays - Finders Keepers (21+ - ticketed) • 4/23: Playing Games vol. 12 — Piano Craft Gallery (free - RSVP requested - BYOB) • 5/22-5/26: Sapphic Fantasy: Memorial Day Weekend Takeover (Provincetown, MA) • 6/5-6/8: Womxn of Color Weekend (Provincetown, MA) • 6/17: Poly Bi & Pan Speed-Dating (21+ - ticketed) • 6/18-6/23: FROLIC Weekend (Provincetown, MA) • 3/20: The Plug at the Museum of Science - navigating mental health in the Black community (18+ - free with preregistration) • 3/22: Trans Youth Summit | BAGLY (free for participants ages 13-25) • 3/22: Queer + Trans Community Yoga with Harley Takagi Kaner — JP Centre Yoga ($6 hybrid session) • 3/26: Radical Care Club (donate what you can) • 3/27: Hive Soul Yoga BIPOC Yoga Class (virtual - $6-$18) • 3/30: Queer and Trans Hiking Fell-ows (free) • 4/12: Yoga for Us: BIPOC Only Space with Marlene Boyette — JP Centre Yoga ($6 hybrid session) • 4/12: Black LGBTQ+ Support Space (free and virtual) • 4/17: Ensuring Safety for the LGBTQ+ Community Panel Discussion | Boston Black Pride • 4/19: Joy As Resistance: A community event for collective liberation (free) • 4/20: Queer + Trans Community Yoga with Henri Garrison-Desany — JP Centre Yoga ($6 - hybrid) • 4 Corners Yoga Class Schedule (BIPOC Instructors) • LGBTQ+ Meditation Group - Shambhala Meditation Center of Boston • BIPOC Meditation Affinity Meditation Group - Shambhala Meditation Center of Boston • Boston Black Pride Events • Documenting Black Queer Boston | The History Project • Black Queers Boston Facebook • 3/1: Day JaVu Saturdays: Old Skool Jam 30+ | Boston Black Pride (ticketed)