#qualr

Happy Tuesday, Beloved Hiphop Womanists, Hiphop Feminists, and Hiphop Abolitionist lovers of Black music!

We hope this message meets you giving and receiving love because you deserve.

We are reaching out to share that after 10 years of micro blogging and macro blogging on Qualr, we are migrating to DDSOS.

Leaving Qualr is bittersweet, but is necessary for our growth as hiphop womanist journalists and digital cultural organizers.

If you have gotten your life from our content, stay connected with us on DDSOS.

We will be able to send and receive "ask" (not chat box) messages on here through December 2022 as we organize the digital archive of the blog.

Beginning January 2023, we will only be able to receive and respond to messages thru the DDSOS website, digital mail(dmail), and social media.

Thank you for understanding and being an essential reader, hearer, and listener in our journey!

With the Spirits of Black Music,

Qualr Team (2012-2022)

Peace to you beloveds! ❁❁❁

Today is Giving Tuesday, a day that would be better celebrated before Thanksgiving Thursday, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday but that’s for another essay.

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Anyways, we at Qualr are celebrating today by asking you yet again to be in solidarity with us! Usually, during our monthly fundraisers, we ask you to visit our store and purchase some cool items as viewed below, but in the spirit of December 3rd’s (12/3) Giving Tuesday, we are asking you to give $1.00, $2.00 or $3.00 to us to support our work.

[Photo Description: Some cool items in our store]

We are accepting donations via Paypal.me.  Please share the wealth with us at  https://www.paypal.me/qualr

You are still able to purchase some cool items from our store for $5.99 or more.

We truly appreciate your support so far and hope to start the new decade stronger and better, with you.

Dearly Beloveds 😍

We are gathered here to continue the celebration of Black Herstory Month, Women’s Herstory Month, Pride Month, Juneteenth Month, Immigrant Heritage Month, and all the months that celebrate QT Black Excellence! Because our lives should be celebrated EVERY DAY! 24-7-365.

In the spirit of consistently celebrating our existence as resistance we are putting together another fundraiser (a Qualr + WomanistGRRRL Fundraiser) in July (and will have monthly fundraisers throughout the rest of the year!).

Funds raised will go towards improving our community events, music library, mixes, blog posts, educational presentations, trainings, workshops, and creative content. 

F(under)more, funds raised will help us reward our accomplices with gift bags, tickets to see your fave Black feminist or Black femcee, community care retreats, and anything in between.

Yes, we have some really big visions. Join us in being visionary!

If you support QT Black bloggers, journalists, and media creators amplifying Womanist and Black Feminist politics in mainstream media and amplifying the presence of QT Black people in hiphop, afropop or caribbpop, please visit  https://www.paypal.me/qualr and/or http://themarket.storenvy.com

We love you and we thank you for your continuous solidarity!

Dear Beloved Community Members & Accomplices,

In celebration of Black Herstory Month, we are hosting our first digital fundraiser today!

Funds raised will go towards improving our community events, music library, music mixes, blog posts and general content. Furthermore, funds raised will help us create educational presentations and workshops that we can share online and at conferences throughout the year. 

If you support QT Black bloggers, journalists, media creators and other creatives amplifying the presence of QT Black people in hip-hop and other Black music genres please support Qualr at / send reparations to https://www.paypal.me/qualr 

We love you and we thank you for your continuous solidarity!

In Black Love,

Hello Lovelies! 

Detroit REPRESENT!, a Detroit based media collective for youth of color and Qualr will be closing out Black Herstory Month with a digital writing workshop. 

If you have any writings you’d like edited or if you will like to write something as a form of healing, affirmation or building your skills, please join us!

The theme of the writing workshop will be QT Black Excellence so QT Black experiences will be centered at this workshop. PERIODT.

Please RSVP by either sending an email to [email protected] or sending us a tumblrmail at http://qualr.tumblr.com/ask. We will share the Zoom link with you and the workshop agenda.

WE ARE ON:

SOUNDCLOUD (HTTPS://SOUNDCLOUD.COM/QUALR)

MIXCLOUD (HTTPS://WWW.MIXCLOUD.COM/QUALR/)

YOUTUBE (HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/CHANNEL/UCFGMJLVURA3JIWMCXT1THPW?)

TWITTER (HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/QUALRONLINE)

STORE ENVY  (HTTP://THEMARKET.STORENVY.COM/)

AND WILL BE ON MEDIUM OR VOCAL.MEDIA SOON.

Most people are pumped for June because it is Immigrant Heritage Month, Juneteenth Month, Q.Pride Month and Black Music Month. I am pumped for June because it is all that, but most importantly it is the birth month of my baebi Qualr. 

On June 11, 2012, I virgin birthed Qualr while organizing with my high school Gay Straight Alliance (now Gender and Sexuality Alliance) as a co-president. I was an undocumented black bisexual woman struggling with depression and searching for positive connections and meaning to life. Qualr gave me that. Qualr (and Q.Hip-Hop) was pivotal to my growth, evolution and healing. 

Looking back, giving birth to this baebi was one of the best decisions I made in 2012. I am grateful to the essence of black womanhood and resilience for giving me the courage to be a single black teenage mother and to find my voice through digital media and music. 

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of Qualr’s growth! Your likes, reblogs and views have put us on the map and we are forever appreciative of your efforts! Stay wonderful, bae(you)tiful, soulful and powwaful! 😍😘😊✊🏿

Celebrate June and Qualr’s 4th birthday bi t(werQ)ing to Qualrz LGBPT Migration Celebration Mix.