Each February, we take stock of the cumulative efforts undertaken by Black people to erect a liberatory future where we are self-determined and loved. Black Futures Month is a visionary, forward-looking spin on celebrations of Blackness in February; a time to consider and celebrate our radical Black history and to dream and imagine a world in which all Black people are free.
This Black Futures Month, we celebrate the Future of Black Love and exchange love notes that articulate manifestations of love beyond romance, binaries, and capitalism and into the ever-expansive realms of justice and liberation.
The late great scholar, author, and feminist bell hooks writes, “Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust.”
This February, join us in celebrating Black history, Black life, Black futures, and Black love.
Over the next several weeks, we will release customizable Black love tarot cards designed by illustrator Alexis Nicole Neely. We encourage you to send these cards to those you care about who manifest love beyond romance, binaries, and capitalism and into the ever-expansive realms of justice and liberation.
This February, join us in celebrating Black history, Black life, Black futures, and Black love.
Over the next several weeks, we will release customizable Black love tarot cards designed by illustrator Alexis Nicole Neely. We encourage you to send these cards to those you care about who manifest love beyond romance, binaries, and capitalism and into the ever-expansive realms of justice and liberation.
To send a card, click the image of the message you’d like to send.
Our future of Black love includes alternative systems that replace racist and violent institutions like policing and prisons and models practices of public safety that work for everyone.
The future of Black love requires a society grounded in trust, collective care, and abundance that prioritizes the dignity and power of Black people.
Our future of Black love is queer. Queer as in capacious, subversive, and rejecting the status quo of scarcity and zero-sum thinking.
Our future of Black love is reciprocal, with high possibilities and low expectations. We sidestep systems and meet each other’s needs, aiding each other in mutuality and kindness.
Our future of Black love embraces love for the natural world, illustrated through climate preparation in Black communities, connected to a climate mandate that puts the power in the hands of the people.
Our future of Black love is divine, multi-dimensional, and guided by spiritual connections and sacred frequencies.
Our future of Black love requires the construction of a caring, soft, and self-determined culture of self-love and bodily autonomy where we are confident that our bodies are beautiful, loved, and ours.
M4BL is an abolitionist, Black queer feminist, anti-capitalist ecosystem of hundred of organizations nurturing a broad political home where Black people can find an opportunity to learn, organize, and take action.
For us, the future of Black love requires a reimagining of life as we know it and a revolutionary transformation of the beliefs, norms, and systems that reject our humanity. The future of Black love requires a society grounded in trust, collective care, and abundance that prioritizes the dignity and power of Black people.
