Liberating Masculinity: The Brown Boi Project

Black Trans Fund grantee, The Brown Boi Project (BBP), is a grassroots community organization of Black and gender-expansive people of color who predominantly identify as masculine of center, transmasculine, two-spirit people, and our allies and share a commitment to changing how communities of color talk about gender.

Founded in Oakland, BBP develops leaders who intend to bring a strong racial and gender justice lens to their work. Through leadership development, network resilience cultivation, healing justice, financial education, and exposure to community organizing, BBP has worked to cultivate safe spaces to explore and develop liberatory frameworks around gender.

With support from the Black Trans Fund, the Brown Boi Project hosted the Freeing Ourselves Florida-based youth leadership pilot initiative in partnership with S.O.U.L. Sisters leadership. Through this project, BBP engaged in virtual training sessions to gather Black trans masculine and gender-expansive youth from southern states to develop a “liberatory masculinities” toolkit to support participants in facilitating their own gender justice/masculinity groups in their local communities.