My Queer Blackness, My Black Queerness launches the Black Jigsaw Project

Sponsored by Gucci, MQBMBQ collaborates with American illustrator Ggggrimes and Ghanian painter Kwesi Botchway to create two custom works transformed into puzzles for its final project of 2020

My Queer Blackness, My Black Queerness launched in June 2020 and raised over 12,000 euros with a print fundraiser for the Black Trans centered-organisations For the Gworls and Transwave JA. The ongoing digital project is committed to exploring the multiple existing facets of Black queer identity and denouncing white queer racism, Black queer antagonism, and queerphobia, by way of art, film and literature.

For its final project of 2020, MQBMBQ collaborates with American illustrator Ggggrimes and Ghanian painter Kwesi Botchway to create 200 limited-edition, A3-sized puzzles. Sponsored by GUCCI, both Ggggrims and Botchway create vivid characters dressed in looks from GUCCI’s Epilogue collection. The works explore the landscapes and beauty of Black Queer identity.

Each of the 384-piece puzzles sits in a box designed by Cary Fagan. And 100 per cent of the proceeds will go to Movimento Identità Trans, one of Italy’s oldest Trans centred organisations.

The Black Jigsaw Project is available here.