Practicing Aliveness

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Written By Grantmakers in the Arts GIA

Reflections on Liberatory Practice

UnBound Bodies Collective

UnBound Bodies (UBB) is an experimental transdisciplinary creative space|place making and tending collective for Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) creatives (artists, activists, tricksters-in training, and healers) in Boston and beyond. We create spaces as a means to center, explore, remember, and re-envision Black queer aliveness, beingness, and community building. We lean into radical reimagining of how to BE in private and public spaces; of how to BE in generative and transformative relationships with our ancestors, bodies, desires, communities/families, elders, and divinities; and intentionally invite folx in our communities to BE in nuanced aliveness together.

UBB’s First Community Events

Images from UBB’s first curated art show and workshop community building event at EMW. Photos by Tyahra Angus of Afrocentered Media. Promo flyer by Genevieve Rodriguez.

HoBits XXX QTBIPoC Porn Film and Performance Festival (2018 & 2019)

2019 Photos (1 & 2) by Natasha Moustache. 2018 Photos (3-9) by Tyahra Angus of Afrocentered Media. Promo flyers by Genevieve Rodriguez.

InPublic - The Stoop Installation | Public Activation

Photos (1 -3) by Lauren Miller. Photos (4-6) by Tyahra Angus/Afrocentered Media.

Thrive 2019

Photo (1) by Tyahra Angus/Afrocentered Media. Photos (2-6) by Tatiana Johnson-Boria. Promo flyers by Genevieve Rodriguez.

InPublic - Waterways 2021 Installation | Public Activation

Photos by Tyahra Angus of Afrocentered Media.

Roots + Futures 2021

Photo (1) by Mona Layne. Photos (2-10) by Lauren Miller. Photos (11-15) by bashexo. Photo (16) by Golden.

Welcome to Boston 2022

Photos (1-3) by bashexo. Photos (4&5) by Kamaria Weemz.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Learn more about UnBound Bodies Collective at their website or find them on Instagram @unboundbodies, @kamariaweemz (kamaria weemz), @whereismoetho (simone john), @jdstokely (stokely), @wildseedboi (bashexo), or Facebook @unboundbodies

COVER ART

Artwork courtesy of UnBound Bodies Collective.

Grantmakers in the Arts GIA

Grantmakers in the Arts is the only national association of both public and private arts and culture funders in the US, including independent and family foundations, public agencies, community foundations, corporate philanthropies, nonprofit regrantors, and national service organizations – funders of all shapes and sizes across the US and into Canada.

https://www.giarts.org
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