A Beacon in STL & Missouri
From advocacy to base-building, merchandise and publications, to embodied healing spaces, Black Transcendence stewards worlds of connection and community, informed by the legacy of Black Womanism, queerness, and transcendence of the status quo.
Past Events
I Wanna Love House Party &
Community Day
Love At Your Speed Dating
BlaQ Community Dinners
Community Grieving Spaces
STL & National Partnerships
Est. 2021
The work of Demanding MO Ho Justice
MHJ was co-founded by Black Transcendence Creative Director, Jay-Marie Hill and sex work-scholar Indigo Hann in the complex times of 2020 as a place for sex work advocacy via organizing in Missouri.
Upon the close of ACLU’s Trans Justice Program in 2021, Team Black Transcendence incubated the group from 2021-23 into a standalone entity shaping community and meeting the needs of Midwest workers.
Read Jay-Marie’s Jan 2023 exit letter and learn more about the crucial and ongoing work at the MHJ hub, www.mohojustice.com.
“The stigma and the not-inevitable criminalization of sex work challenges autonomy, makes the work less safe, and fails to address societal concerns around exploitation. In our report, we attempt to summarize workers’ assertions that criminalizing people for their bodies and the choices they make with them is harmful to their health and the health of society as a whole... This report is part of national discourse challenging traditional frameworks, which have led to the over-incarceration, criminalization, and further marginalization of queer communities and, in particular, of Black and trans women of color.”