Who all is going to the Black Out Loud Conference this year?

I've been asked if white people can be involved in Black Out Loud Conference 2018. The answer is yes but not in a “gurrrl I got my invite to the cookout” kinda way. Not that at all. We are inviting whiteness in the least self-centering way. The invitation is one where our allies will either be of service or participating in critical learning. Anything else would be a sideshow that I am not interested in.

With regards to non-Black people of color, you are invited as we also seek to forge more solidarity with other marginalized peoples in the city and beyond. I want us to be able to see the possibilities in centering our identities/narratives, unapologetically.

Above all, this conference will focus on Blackness in all of its glorious & complex iterations. At its core this is about moving our voices, our narratives from outside the margins, specifically within Baton Rouge and the state of Louisiana. It will be a celebration of visibility & foregrounding culture in a manner that is not fetishized or appropriated or co-opted for anything other than what it is.