The Way We Move
This is how we build together: through joy, through healing, through leadership, through care. The BWINH Collective exists to bring Black people in New Hampshire into community with each other, so we can ease isolation, reclaim our culture, and create the future we deserve.
The Reality
Black people in New Hampshire face isolation alongside systemic racism, sexism, and exclusion from leadership. Within this reality, Black women, femmes, queer, poor, and disabled community members experience the harshest marginalization. On top of these barriers, mainstream systems continue to erase Black histories and fail to provide care, education, and resources that are rooted in and responsive to the community.
How We Build
We build by creating spaces where Black people can connect, celebrate culture, and ease isolation, knowing that joy and togetherness are forms of resistance. We grow the confidence, skills, and boldness of Black women, femmes, and queer folk to lead in ways true to our culture, reshaping what leadership looks like rather than fitting into whiteness. We honor the grief, trauma, and ongoing harm of racism while reclaiming ancestral practices of healing that bring us closer to wholeness. We strengthen survival and sustainability through collective solutions in food, housing, and education, practices our ancestors lived and we now carry forward. And we fight for resources and recognition for Black-led efforts while holding systems accountable, building coalitions that ensure grassroots voices and those most impacted set the agenda.
What You See in the Community
In our community you see more than numbers. You see over 700 people finding connection, leadership cohorts growing, cultural events and materials shared, food and aid circulating, and coalitions taking root. These efforts create real shifts: we feel less alone, Black leadership is rising, our history and culture are visible, and resources are finally flowing into Black led work. Together we are building and controlling our own spaces. Where we are headed is a thriving, self determined Black community living with dignity, healing, joy, and pride, sustained by systems of care rooted in us and carried forward through intergenerational resilience and liberation.