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We are ��BLACK FLY��
We are creating a zine about race and HOW it affects POC. Submissions are now open!!! [email protected] What does it say to us? POC only.

WE ARE BLACK FLY

We are making a zine for POC about s*xual health and racism. We exist with racism within us, around us, fed to us. but how does it operate in these intimate corners of ourselves? How does it isolate us? How can we restructure and rebuild? Areas of possibility???? Infection and Experience
Brown and Black love
Self-care and Self-love
Consent
Condom use
Cultural stigma
Statistics

S*x positivity

We want your submissions in any form you desire. words/pictures/essays/photos/rants/rituals/affirmations

2 Rules:
1. ANONYMITY is vital. If u don’t want ur name included then it won’t be.
2. All genders welcome. [email protected]

Deadline: December 1st 2016

BLACK FLY

Existimos con racismo interiorizado, a nuestro alrededor y forzado en nosotros. Pero, como opera en estos rincones íntimos de nuestro ser?
¿Qué nos dice?
¿Cómo nos aísla?
¿Cómo podemos reestructurar y reconstruir? Posibles Áreas:
Infección y experiencia
Amor entre minorías (Brown and Black Love)
Autocuidado y amor propio
Consentimiento
Uso de condón
Estigma cultural
Estadísticas
Positividad s*xual
Queremos sus propuestas en cualquier forma que deseen:
palabras/fotos/ensayos/dibujos/quejas/rituales/afirmaciones
2 REGLAS
El ANONIMATO es vital: si no quieres incluir tu nombre será respetado. Solo minorías. Todos los géneros bienvenidos. [email protected]
Fecha de cierre: 1 de Diciembre 2016

05/23/2023

On Saturday 20th May Black Fly & Black Venus came together and held a workshop in honour of the department of Unruly Histories to explore and mark ✨OUR✨ London.

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"We all have a relationship to land, this city specifically, there are certain places that I go to and I can feel the hair on my neck stick up. There are places where we have felt unsafe and those boundaries feel written in my body

Our memories, ritual and practice draw these lines. Trauma and joy show up in various forms, is there a way for us to connect to this un-boundaried and sometimes unfeeling monster we call home? can the lines of joy be imagined in new ways, lines to navigate it safely?
How do we imagine our territories?
We start with our bodies. Our feet. Our elbows. Our softness.

We reclaim our memories however biased, however jaded"
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▫️Exercising repair and recovery, we took our time to breathe, to take in the full weight of ourselves, we got to guide and to be a guided.

🔳Thank you to all the participants who came through✨💜 It was a very special night, your trust and grace was truly felt

🔲A massive thank you and smooches to & for allowing us the space to get weird n lovely

Make sure to catch the exhibition which is now on until 2 June ✨🥳

05/04/2023

🤟🏾BFZ x DUH🫶🏾

JOIN US 4 the Sensorial Cruising
Listening event at
Saturday 6th May 12pm-2pm

✨Please bring your own headphones!✨

In this audio piece, Sensorial Cruising, Black Fly (BFZ) reflect on desires, consent, cruising, and crushes. They talk about what it means to explore intimacy, explore being pleasured, and explore being safely uncomfortable. They reflect on the impossibility of silence, the intense loudness of bodily sounds, and the various auditory experiences of the city. As people socialised as women and gender non conforming folx, we discuss not feeling accepted in many s*xual health spaces across London, and open paths for different ways we can relate to ourselves and our intimate experiences.

department of Unruly histories (dUh) is an artwork produced by Meera Shakti Osborne () consisting of a collective sonic and material archive built on post-colonial migration stories in London. In conjunction with an exhibition at Cubitt Artists, curated by Mariam Elnozahy, ten audio pieces are installed in various satellite sites across London.

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07/24/2021

Earlier this year we collaborated with to deliver monthly workshops for their LGBT homeless youth groups supported by the excellent Hasan. Above is the feedback from those workshops, it was humorous, insightful, challenging in all the right ways to work with these young minds and have the opportunity to air feelings that can be ruminated on in isolation.

We now offer workshops on:

✂️ Zine Making
🌊 Relationship to self
🌀 Relationship to others
❤️‍🔥 Rejection and jealousy
🌓 Self care

Along with our iconic Erotic Mapping workshop 💦
Email (in bio) us if you have any Q's 🌸✨/ Email us if you wanna get this WORK(shop)

03/08/2021

Our first good news to drop 🗣BFZ are hype to present Restore, Renew, Repeat a special commission with ✨

Are you interested in imagining new ways to engage with your body, your pleasure, your surroundings and collective wellbeing?

Check the link in our bio and sign up for this FREE 3 month project. The art kits will be sent to an address you provide with materials and guidance and notes from US. You will have the opportunity to join in community.

This is open to folks of all genders who identify as Black and Brown and are over 18. UK based. There are limited spaces.

Join us on this journey. Link in bio to sign up 🕯⛲️

are a non-profit art space in Holborn dedicated to championing women and women and q***r artists.

*xuality *xualhealth

11/12/2020

Repost from - link in our bio to listen to new podcast. 📡

The *xagenda is back with Episode 9(99) (someone call the fire engine because we are on fire 😂) and chat to another S*xual Health Collective , the s*xy and artistic, with the wonderful Bui. Bui is an artist and researcher devoted to help heal our collective relationships.

Bui (She/Her) is a member of Black Fly collective - a group who created the amazing Black Fly zine. The second one is dropping soon!
In this episode we give a round up of the latest s*xual health news including Lily Allen's new s*x toy, the effect of lockdown on couple's s*x lives and (argh) the US elections.

You can check out the full references on our website www.decolonisingcontraception.com

LISTEN NOW TO THE PODCAST - LINK IN BIO

A podcast created by Decolonising Contraception collective, an interdisciplinary collective of Black and people of colour, working across s*xual and reproductive health (SRH) . Hosted by Edem Ntumy (She/her) - community engagement officer and Dr Annabel Sowemimo (She/her) community s*xual & reproductive health doctor. Each episode gives a round up of s*xual health news, social justice issues and focuses on the work of those working to dismantle the everyday prejudice in our sector. Series edited by Veronique Belinga.

10/19/2020

Did someone say... EROTIC MAPPING?🗣🦟

We’re back and have teamed up with & .library to hold our next Erotic Mapping Workshop.

We’ll once again be seeking attendees to break down, define, question what, where and how the Erotic shows up in their worlds.

Expanding our ideas on centering pleasure, and navigating spaces through the lens of the Erotic.

We invite you to join us, especially if you haven’t been before🥰

Check the link our bio to join the virtual community centre on the 26th October✨✨✨

09/19/2020

we want s*x ed to discuss strapp use, safe a**l, non genital-centred s*x, pre&post-f**k tenderness • we want a s*x ed that acknowledges as a valid release & self care practice • we want s*x ed to make space for as*xuality, celibacy, non-desire, touch-aversion • we want s*x ed that honours the radical s*x of our q***r ancestors • we want a s*x ed that scraps it’s existing structure, and builds up to centre black, brown and q***r folk • we want a s*x ed that talks about heartbreak • we want a s*x ed to give us space to name & work through our trauma • we want s*x Ed that celebrates fat bodies • we want s*x ed that’s trans asf • we want s*x ed that’s honest and centred joy not fear...the list goes on.

Black Fly Zine exists to interrupt the existing failing narratives and be a resource, education and an affirmation for the knowledge in between the gaps. We are glad to be here and will be even more glad when we don’t have to be.

It’s *xualhealthweek! & we wanted to list our thoughts on what s*x education actually needs, in line with the theme of RSE. What are your demands? 🌱

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Image 3: Dananani Muwanigwa

09/02/2020

Friends and Lovers, ⠀
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We have been shortlisted as finalists for 'Best Grass Roots Organization of the Year at the *xpositive X S*xual Health Awards 2020! ⠀
We're truly gassed to be nominated alongside some of our faves and new faves who are really shaping what the world of s*x positivity looks like!⠀
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✨✨✨Thank you for seeing us and the work we’re doing✨✨✨
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Vote for us! Link in Bio🖤🦟⠀
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08/20/2020

Today is the day! ⠀
We give thanks to everyone who’s sent through submissions, we appreciate you and are so excited to start crafting them altogether. For those that haven’t yet and are still umming and ahhring and need a little extra time- we’ve got you. We’ve extended the submission date to 10th September midnight BST. ⠀
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This gives you all an extra 3 weeks to get those stories, messages, recipes and spells to us. We are asking you to zoom in and dissect your tonics value in your life, what you use to look after yourselves and each other and how we choose to engage with these topics. As Black & Brown folx rewriting the scripts around our bodies and whats healing is imperative. So Email Us!

1. ‘I’m in love with your Nigga’ 2019 ⠀
2. Name unknown by T. McCarthy ⠀
3. Teppei Kaneuji⠀
4. Name unknown by Leonardo Corredor⠀
5. Name unknown by Leonardo Corredor

07/07/2020

>> SUBMIT TONICS TO BLACK FLY

06/22/2020

Hello new followers (and old🧙🏿‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️). has given our project some unprecedented attention and we have been loving it tbh, very affirming to us as a collective and the work that we do!

There are only 5 remaining copies of the first issue of Black Fly Zine so if you would like a copy now would be the time. The book is 96 pages with a screen printed cover, exploring s*xual health from over 35 B&POC submitters from USA, UK and Mexico. Covering topics like q***r love, black masculinity, ma********on with a yoni egg, herpes and Grindr, trauma, consent and so much more. It’s truly one of a kind and we can’t believe these are the last few copies...mad.

If you are a white ally/non black ally think about dropping us some coin, the money is very practically put towards all the projects we produce, workshop materials, mailing costs, printing, merchandise etc. We are totally unfunded and it means a lot. Link in bio 🤑

Also peep the recent article by whizz kid who writes about our most recent workshop with - they rlly understood the work we are doing and it’s a pleasure to read.

Look out for our next callout dropping real soon...🐍

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