UnBound Bodies Collective

L: photo courtesy of UnBound Bodies; R: photo by Tyahra Angus

Project Description

Roots + Futures is UnBound Bodies’ three part exploration into QTBIPoC futurity, liberation, and active archiving. Living Altars, co-created with QTBIPoC Elders, layers landscapes with memories, sited throughout Boston where our Elders shaped their lives and our legacies. Icons, is a community practice installation ritual. These installations will honor Black Trans Femmes and Gender-Non-Binary(GNB) folx, collectively celebrating their lives and safety while occupying public space. At the final supper gathering, we will create the largest altar-- with ephemera from Living Altars and Icons--to remember our mark, celebrate, and connect intergenerationally as a means for our communities to continue to thrive.

Collective Bio

UnBound Bodies (UBB) is a QTBIPoC experimental transdisciplinary creative space|place making and tending collective. We create care-centered spaces as a means to explore and honor QTBIPoC culture, knowledge sharing, and community building. The tangible products that emerge from our tending practices are meaningful because of the time and energy we devote to exploration, dreaming, research, and care for our communities. All UBB offerings center the narratives and lived experiences of QTBIPoC. This centering enables the cultivation of a nourishing creative community. It also resists the real material and embodied violence of white supremacy--enacted through racism, trans/homophobia, ableism, gentrification, and other violences directed against us as QTBIPoC. UBB is committed to Black Queer futurity and we believe we can conjure and manifest the liberatory futures we desire/deserve--through a wide range of creative collaborations that honor our ancestors, elders, communities, and ourselves.