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01/03/2025

Happy New Year and we welcome you to the 5th Year of Blaque/OUT Magazine!

We are living in uncertain times but Blaque/OUT Magazine was built for this and our call of action for 2025 is just that. We were born out of the fire in 2020 so we were literally made for moments just like this and we WILL rise to the occasion. We will be the Black-Owned, Q***r-Owned, Woman-Owned Independent media that won’t be silenced at a point in history that we need to be LOUD. Through that fight- our greatest resistance is JOY. So this first issue of the year celebrates so many of the amazing Black & Brown, Q***r & Trans folks that have brought us light & made an impact in 2024. Nominated by YOU, our readers. Read about all of our 2024 BEST OF winners and look out for posts celebrating each one throughout the month of January.

This month we bring you one of our most exciting interviews yet. Blaque/OUT Magazine’s Javannah Davis sat down with Actor, Activist and our Blaque/OUT BEST OF 2024 Actor of the Year winner, Brian Michael Smith. Book Therapy With E.L.Winston sat down with author, Sarah Raughley to discuss her novel, “The Queen’s Spade.” And of course all of the Blaque/OUT columns and columnists you know and love!

This is year 5 for us and we are so honored & grateful that you continue to rock with us and the audience (which means our Blaque/OUT family) just continues to grow! READ & SUBSCRIBE!

To read and/or subscribe: https://www.blaqueout.com/magazine
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12/30/2024

It’s almost 2025, whether you are ready to start something new or rebrand an existing project, let us help by designing or refreshing your logo,

We can walk you through the process and keep guiding you until you create something you love! When you’re ready for next steps we can help to design your business plan, developing your strategic marketing and even manage your social media If you need It!

12/18/2024

Now THIS is a media kit, yep, we do those too 😉

12/04/2024

11/02/2024

After months and months of work and planning it is Blaque/OUT Magazine's honor to announce... on the 1st day of the month that we recognize the 25th Anniversary of Trans Day of Remembrance, Trans Awareness Week and just days before we Q***r the Vote, the Blaque/OUT T.R.A.I.I. (Trans Remembrance Archive and Information Index).

Blaque/OUT worked with the incredible folks at GIS Scholars, Inc. to create a tool that merges geospatial technology with the data about every single known person of the Trans, NB and GNC/GE communities that have lost their lives to an act of violence since 2018. This tool is FREE, open to any and every individual and organization and will allow you to layer factors like victimology, region, gender identity etc on a map and have a map-based visual of who each one of these people was, where they were located and details of their cases.

It is our hope that the T.R.A.I.I. will help groups and orgs to better lobby for funding, investigators better and faster spot patterns while also keeping the names of our lost sibs alive. The data exists but its never been presented like this. We are honored to remember and say the names of every victim but we are also TIRED OF IT. This is year Blaque/OUT wanted to help create change and if T.R.A.I.I. saves one life, it was worth it.

Visit the Blaque/OUT website to see and start using the tool and story maps: https://www.blaqueout.com/traii (most functionality from computer & web versions) or the November issue of Blaque/OUT for more information about the history and tech behind the tool: https://issuu.com/blaqueoutmag/docs/blaqueout_magazine_nov._2024?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ

Thank you to our partners at GIS Scholars Inc., support from Eileen Amy Ryan and Tee Douglas, last minute assist from E.C. Pizarro II and to the heart and soul of Blaque/OUT, E.L. Winston.



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