{B/qKC}

{B/qKC} is a community project challenging out-dated archival practices through accessible storytelling, socioeconomic reparation, and intergenerational power building––all within the frame and study of midwestern Black queer history. {B/qKC} began in early 2022 as a series of investigative journalism pieces responding to failures by local and national library institutions to catalog Black queer existence in Kansas City and the lack of resources and spaces for queer people of color.

Established as an archive on March 1, 2024, {B/qKC} has created its own unique licensing model that allows living contributors, “collection shareholders,” to retain ownership over their material in exchange for digitization.