The Rooted Collective came together in 2016 and has worked tirelessly to build affirming, healing spaces for the Black LGBTQ/SGL community.Our MissionThe Rooted Collective is a liberatory gathering of Black LGBTQ people to define, dream, and expand on the ways in which we heal from oppression and practice joy and pleasure. We root our work in the knowledge that healing for all Black people is political resistance.Follow us onFacebookandInstagramto learn more about our current programs and events, including:- The grand premiere ofDamn Y'all Fine, a powerful documentary about Baltimore's Black, queer aesthetic. Directed by Ti Malik Coleman and Dr. Kalima Young.-Black Queer Canopy Therapy: a monthly space to connect, build trust, attune to each other, rekindle our ancestral knowing, and slowly mend and heal the disconnection to nature we experience due to histories of colonization and enslavement. Occurring at various parks throughout Baltimore, activities on the walks have included collaborative storytelling around our ancestral connections to land, gratitude practices, some wilderness first aid education, and writing letters and messages to our Black transcestors.