FINDING PRIDE DESPITE THE PREJUDICE.
From its inception in 2005, UK Black Pride has served as a critical convergence point for those who find themselves caught in the intersectional crosshairs of being both a minority and LGBTQ+. Intersectionality, a term conceptualized and coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, describes “an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person’s social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.”
UK Black Pride was initially a day trip to Southend-on-Sea organised by Black Lesbians in the
