As Pride Month comes to a close, we honor the Black queer and trans visionaries whose courage, creativity, and leadership have shaped Black feminisms and transformed our movements.

Before Pride became a celebration, it was a movement. A movement imagined, organized, and led by Black queer and trans visionaries who dared to envision liberation beyond what existed. They challenged systems of oppression, spoke truth to power, and built blueprints for liberation. At Black Feminist Future, those blueprints remain our guideposts. They shape how we organize, imagine, and build Black feminist futures. Black queer and trans leadership is not adjacent to Black feminisms. It is foundational to it. That truth has always guided our work, and it will continue to shape the future we’re building together. They imagined. We continue.