Our Vision.

 

Our vision is to create Teaching BLMP-HOU as a resource which researches and responds to the presence of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants here in the U.S. South.

Teaching BLMP-HOU is using the tools of Digital Humanities (DH) to respond to the needs of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants here in the U.S. South.

Black LGBTQ+ migrants worldwide are impacted by structures of power that produce anti-black policies, forced migration, military occupations, homophobic/transphobic violence, wealth theft, economic precarity, lack of legal status for citizenship, environmental racism and more.

Events that lead to the forced migration of Black LGBTQ+ migrants produce significant trauma.

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Goal One

To serve as an online access point for migrants in need of services, resources, and tools that might assist them in navigating migration and asylum policy and legal systems.

 

Goal Two

To conduct surveys, research and data collection in order to learn about the Black, migrant, LGBTQIA+ community in the U.S. in order to better understand their challenges and needs. Ultimately the goal is to work with the community in developing resources.

 
 

Goal Three

To develop a resource hub which educates students and service providers about the traumas of forced migration and experiences of Black migrant, LGBTQIA+ migrants.

 

Teaching BLMP-HOU is an on-going, collaborative project. As a group, we continue to research, write and create curriculum.

We are driven by inciting questions which provide a foundation for our project:

  • How can we center the needs and concerns of those individuals who are most marginalized and most vulnerable, in part, because of their blackness, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation?

  • How can Digital Humanities methodologies be used to highlight anew the experience of this particular group of migrants during immigration and resettlement?

  • What is effective pedagogy and sound curriculum and how can we translate this into the classroom in ways which convey the realities of Black LGBTQ+ migrants?