This website was born out of Unitarian Universalist Black women and girls’ needs and desires for a space, sanctified and made holy by our presence and devoted to our existence.

After years of research about Black UU women, mostly historic personalities, we recognized the even greater marginalization of girls and those who identify as womxn, LGBTQIA+ and non-binary. Our intent is to create with this website a more inclusive community. Here, we amplify our voices and our stories. Here, we make room for an inclusive range of folks to more fully identify and claim the richness of our lives as Black UUs with pride and intentionality.

This website exists because we recognize it is time that Black women and girls (womxn, LGBTQIA+ and non-binary inclusive) seize the opportunity to take charge of the narratives about our lives, our identities and to influence the shaping of an inclusive and accurate discourse of who we are while naming the celebratory and challenging moments in our lives as UUs.

This website allows Black UU women and girls (womxn, LGBTQIA+ and non-binary inclusive) a unique space to gather our stories and voices, to explore our presence in UUism, our accomplishments, our sorrows, our wonderings and wanderings. And to know those who came before us, on whose shoulders we stand, so that we might acknowledge those relationships and connections that sustain us.

In these arduous and challenging times, Black UU women and girls deserve a safe space to bring all of our multiple identities together. This is that space!

Invoking all that is sacred and holy we invite you to explore, contribute and participate.

Rev. Dr. Qiyamah A. Rahman