It has been two years since #BlackoutDay began. The founders Marissa Rea and Nukirk had no idea what they would be getting into when they wanted to promote Black people and their Black excellence on social media.
It has since grown to become a positive, mainstream space for all Blackness and it is so beautiful. The founders have discussed plans to expand the project offline as discussed in an interview with Ebony that they are “relaunching our website soon to feature more Black artists/businesses and are working on #BlackoutDay apparel to be launched in time for our next #BlackoutDay on June 6th.” As a black individual this movement has been such a positive force in my life with all the anti-blackness that has been present in the Western world in the most recent days. As the Black Lives Matter movement continues on as a desire to change the world through expressing black peoples right to take up space and exist, #BlackoutDay uses that same idea through having black people show their face in pride of their blackness and the love they have for themselves and their accomplishments.
It includes intersectional parties as long as that person is Black they are welcome and that feeling of acceptance under any circumstance is warming and that is exactly what the founders of the hashtag wanted to go for when it began. It was all about love for oneself as Black person and now two years later the hashtag has become quarterly, starting March 6th.
This hashtag will continue on into the future and the love that Black people have for their own sexy faces and the good things that they do on the daily will also continue and thrive. No one can stop a Black person on the rise and that is sure when the lovely people of #BlackoutDay are involved.