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| Newsletter — October 2026 |
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| Making Ourselves From Scratch — Croydon Loves You 2026 |
| Your face here. |
| Black queer men rarely see ourselves on a magazine cover. This autumn, eight of us in Croydon get to make one. |
| Making Ourselves From Scratch is three workshops at the Waterside Centre in South Norwood, late October into November. Choose your place — a Croydon corner that carries our history. Find your headline, with writer and performer Derek Aidoo. Make the cover — life-size, built together, with you on it. Then host your people: dinner at Stanley Arts on Joseph Beam Day, 28 December. |
| It is also the first time we've said the name out loud: BLKOUT Review, the magazine of the Black Queer Men's Liberation Collective. You can be on its cover before there's an issue. No experience of writing, performing or being photographed needed — just a Croydon connection and something to say. |
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Not in Croydon? Forward this to a brother who is.
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| Black History Month — #BLKOUTAreYouIn |
| We come together. Are you in? |
| We come together, to make space, to create connections that build power. That's October: four weeks, four beats, told from our own archive — ten years of making, in colour, by the people who were there. Not a history lesson. The receipts for an invitation. |
| On 16 October our story archive turns ten: the first six pieces went up on 16 October 2016. We'll mark it properly. |
| Ask AIvor about our Icons. Four questions about Ivor Cummings, Berto Pasuka, Pearl Alcock and Justin Fashanu — get them right and AIvor gives you a letter. Unscramble the word and you're in the draw for a BLKOUT Icons tee. One draw, 31 October. |
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| The noticeboard |
| New on Voices: What do we own together? Three years ago I was asked why BLKOUT exists. My answer, borrowed from Essex Hemphill, opens an essay about what a community actually owns — and what it could. Read it on Voices. |
| BLKOUT in your borough. Twelve borough doors are now open on events.blkoutuk.com — gatherings, openings and places we vouch for, each with its own local history. Find yours, or tell us what's missing. |
| New here? Ivor's Compass is still open — a digital journal through seven directions of a remarkable Black queer life. Claim yours. |
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| Between newsletters |
| BLKOUTHUB is where the conversation continues — members only, no algorithm, no spectators. Consider this your invitation: join BLKOUTHUB. |
| BLKOUT News gathers the stories that matter to Black queer Britain — and your vote picks what leads the weekly video digest. The week's stories are up now, waiting on your judgement: news.blkoutuk.com. |
| What's in your sky? Two minutes, stars only, no names — see your own constellation: play Constellations. |
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| Know a brother who should be on a cover? Forward this on. |
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