Blackgirl Gold Unapologetic, Inc. (BGU) – a tax-exempt public charity – provided funding to advance work that centered the lives of Blackgirls*, aged 19-99. BGU triennially awarded $11,500 to undergraduate, graduate students, other/mothers and community servant Blackgirls from 2018-2024. Funds were procured from tithes, offerings, and sales of the BGU mugs and tees. 

 

*Blackgirl(s) is an intersectional identity that applies to girls and women folk of African ascent and does not separate ones racial identity from ones gender identity. Additionally, Blackgirl is not bound by age: we are Blackgirls from birth to infinity. Robin Boylorn (2018) shares, “I started writing blackgirl as one word in an effort to acknowledge that my race and sex are inextricable markers that influence how I experience the world and how the world experiences me… By taking out the space I was erasing the assumed pause (read apology, explanation, stereotype) between mv identities." The lives of Blackgirls are complex and contradictory; she is not a monolith. nor an anomaly. When we center the lives of Blackgirls, we honor the work of radical self-care, liberatory education, community accountability and unapologetic, creative expressions. 

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