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03/11/2026

“Playing here shows the arts in St. Louis are alive and well”, says 🥁 gifted St. Louis native & drummer . Thank you, .

Listen to When You Say, today, and keep showing up for your hood. ⚜️🇵🇷🏡

*The Team*
Jay-Marie Hill Vocals, Lyrics, Bass .marie.is.holy
Ish Ensemble
Brit Lockhart Guitar
Tim ‘Madman’ Moore Drums

Video
Shot & Edited Justin Henley
Zandr House Studios

Sound
Audio Capture & Mixing Angel Pini
Electric Orchid Studios

Production
Executive Producer Black Transcendence .transcendence
Production Assistant Fatou Kane
BTS Photography Malcolm-Aime Musoni, Wun Hour Photo
Artist Support Adina O’Neal
Styling by The Good-Ish
Holy. Embroidery by St. Louis Custom Gear

Special Thanks
Drew Hubbard
Jae Art | Artis Del Sol
Northside Movement Center
The People’s Response
Arch City Defenders

03/04/2026

BTS of When You Say with Brit Lockhart of 🎸 on what playing in the means to him.

May we continue to show up for our people, our land, and our movements 💪🏽💌

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02/26/2026

Congratulations on your memoir, ❣️
Happy Pub Week 🎉🎉 Shoutout to 📖

About Black Transcendence

The mission of Black Transcendence is to elevate the leadership and skills of Black, q***r & trans artists, athletes, and leaders. We also work to enhance access to tools and programming that supports Black women, Black q***r folks’, and Black trans folks’ creativity and visionary guidance toward the transformed world we want to see.

Vision
Black Transcendence is a container for the artistic, physical, administrative, and political development of leaders amongst Black, Q***r, Trans folks, women and Allies in the Midwest and internationally. Our programming opens portals to feeling, embodiment, and peace with being called and committed to generational change.

02/26/2026

Behind the Movement Music with .marie.is.holy.

The is a gift to the Northside and entire St. Louis community, and their song When You Say is an ode to showing up the way that & have continued to since their founding. Love to the entire NMC & .transcendence production teams that helped make this shoot possible.

Be sure to come out 3:30-6:30pm to support the NMC ribbon cutting and hear more about how you utilize this incredible space, built with us in mind.

Then at 6:30pm, join an Inclusive Iftar at The Melvin ~ RSVP to help ensure a plate!

02/21/2026

Catch the Tiny Desk premiere for ‘When You Say’, the first single off .marie.is.holy’s new 2026 album to come | 5/3 More Than Magic. Filmed at the brand new & feat. .

The NMC - a true pillar for the showing up the region will do in the years to come. Our film & bts team were in awe of this 36,000 sq. foot building & so excited for what the NMC will be to our North STL community.

The Holy Tiny Desk is premiering on Friday, 2/27 in celebration of the NMC Ribbon Cutting and the ways STL has shown up for itself. We will show it at the Inclusive Iftar that night before the poets take to the stage.

Join & as they host a Grand Opening for this powerful new space on the Northside and come be in community all day, Friday, 2/27. Let us renew our commitments to showing up for one another in these complex and changing times.

On Friday, 2/27 we invite you to gather at our Inclusive Iftar 2.0 as we close out Black History Month / Freedom Feb. wi...
02/18/2026

On Friday, 2/27 we invite you to gather at our Inclusive Iftar 2.0 as we close out Black History Month / Freedom Feb. with a Call to Prayer & night of poetic sonic healing.

After marking maghrib with dates, and a Quran scripture shared by our sister , our meal will be from 🇵🇸 , and followed by an evening of poetry and sage-elder-artist-healing.

Featuring a Holy Ish Tiny Desk premiere from .marie.is.holy ft. Ish Ensemble (filmed at the one and only 🎉) as well as poetic sets from , and , ft. at , we will leave clearer on our sense of accountability to and belief in one another, above all.

Whether you are Muslim, a revert, curious, or do not profess a faith practice, these times are calling for us to realign with forces greater than what we are able to accomplish alone. Join us to grow and practice believing in more, and communalize our faith practice(s) with one another.
🏳️‍⚧️🙏🏽🏳️‍🌈 Note: We encourage all q***r and trans Muslims to visit and build with ***r who generously supported our Iftar 1.0, both during this Ramadan & beyond.

P.S. Originally planned for 2/20 but pushed back to the recent ❄️🌨️ storms, the 2/27 Iftar date is now shared with the incredible ground-breaking weekend 🎉. We hope to see all spaces overflowing with community, and all of us pointed toward as a both this weekend, and for many to come.

Let us re-build and re-member St. Louis, one gathering, and one celebration at a time.

All are welcome.

Iftar RSVP’s encouraged & appreciated for food and security purposes. ☪️🍽️🤲🏽

Blessed Lunar Nu Year of the Fire Horse, & Ramadan Mubarak to all. 🧧💌

Habari Gani? Imani! Today’s final principle of faith grounds us in the choice and responsibility it is to believe in mor...
01/01/2026

Habari Gani? Imani! Today’s final principle of faith grounds us in the choice and responsibility it is to believe in more, and in each other, in our people, our parents, and our teachers, our leaders — even when the impossible surrounds us. Today we recommit to

The faith that our hopes are worth stewarding.
The faith that our power is worth building.
The faith that we will be there for one another.
The faith that our next generations deserve our focus.
The faith that all is not lost, especially when we believe in the power and potential of one another.

We wish you faith and steadfastness this new year, and we are grateful to have our ecosystem helping to build and shape a world that honors ourselves and future generations.

Habari Gani!? Kuumba. Today’s principle finds us reflecting on creativity.Kuumba calls us to leave our community more be...
12/31/2025

Habari Gani!? Kuumba. Today’s principle finds us reflecting on creativity.

Kuumba calls us to leave our community more beautiful, more meaningful, and more whole than we inherited it. Creativity is not just about art, it is about how we express identity, solve problems, and imagine a future rooted in dignity and pride.

While it may be non-traditional, at BT we see and spread creativity through bicycles, through movement, through embodied practice; through love, somatic workshops, electoral justice campaigns, grief retreats, and even annual speed dating. Blackness is creativity is power.

We know that approaching our movements and neighborhoods with creativity will always be a source of strength, down to the ways we take a creative spin on Kwanzaa, while not ignoring the harms done by its creator.

Practicing Kwanzaa powerful point that is not about nostalgia, but about reclaiming a cultural anchoring that unites Black people and showcases the brilliance of a people. That spirit of Kuumba lives on in all of our programs as we work to grow local creativity as a tool for connection, healing, and place making, and we give thanks to this year’s 10 years of lessons gleaned at 10 year convening.

Kuumba shows up through Community Capacity Building, Embodied Practice, and Community Health. Our creative spaces foster belonging, restore joy, and strengthen community identity. They remind us that culture is not an accessory to development, but rather the foundation of it.

As we light the sixth candle, we use it as an opportunity to honor the artists and culture keepers who shaped our year, and our lives before their passing this year.

From Richard Smallwood, to D’Angelo; Mrs. Dellavalade to Angie Stone, to the great Roberta Flack, we take this day recommit to creating spaces where creativity can once again flourish, be protected, and be passed on.

Tomorrow, on January 1, 2026, we close with the final principle. Sending you a Blessed New Year’s and prayer that we may be at peace with the growth and even the unexplainable that this year has brought us.

Habari Gani? Nia! For our 5th day principle, we reflect on Nia, or Purpose, on those who help us embody renewal.As you m...
12/30/2025

Habari Gani? Nia! For our 5th day principle, we reflect on Nia, or Purpose, on those who help us embody renewal.

As you may have gathered from our reflections, Black Transcendence defies traditional organizational formats and labels. Our purpose is both firm and emergent, yet always steadily rooted in affirming and empowering leaders who aid in bridging the generational gaps created by societal normalization of transphobia, anti-Blackness, and homophobia.

We are a container to honor our historic and present-day leaders who refine and spread access to gender-expansive tools for living full lives, rather than dwelling on the harm and violence that has been and continues to be waged upon our communities.

We share this because we are reminded that Nia calls us to live intentionally, understand our purpose, and uplift our families, community, and future. As guides in this calling, we remember and lift up movement lights and now ancestors, Hodari Blue and Miss Major. We call their names alongside the hundreds who traveled to celebrate their lives and also spent this year marking and celebrating their many-lifetimes-worth of love, legacy and brilliance.

Ultimately, purpose is seen in how we show up, lead, love, and when we stand for what matters, and so we encourage you to take a moment to reflect:
Where are you moving on purpose?
How do you know? How would others know?

May these reflections inspire you to realign with your own sense of meaning, legacy, and intention. 🤎

Habari Gani? Ujamaa! Today’s principle reminds us to invest in our communities economies and businesses, thus creating a...
12/29/2025

Habari Gani? Ujamaa! Today’s principle reminds us to invest in our communities economies and businesses, thus creating a culture of replenishment for entire ecosystems. All of our BT events actively feature and strategically highlight Black owned businesses, and our fall somatic horse farm retreat was no exception.

When umoja, kujichagulia, and ujima combine, we expand into economic relationships and thriving systems that benefit us beyond the individual or even family unit.

We give thanks to Black & POC-owned and serving institutions like and more, for being places where we can break bread, sit at the feet of elders, plan events, and know that our dollars are being funneled back into our community and shared futures.

In St. Louis, we also regularly visit the grief of shuttered businesses and we affirm these powerful attempts at growing our economic systems for the benefit of many — from humble community serving entities like , to , to , and more, we have seen some amazing businesses thrive but also close over the years, with even more closing down in these gaslighting, fascistic times. And while there is a season for everything, this reality is also a reminder to actively support the gems in our midst!

We also know some of our most brilliant givers and healers run their offerings thru in-kind gifts, grants and donations, and stay afloat by operating outside of the traditional, capitalist economy. Our hats off to you all - caregivers, parents, teachers, coaches, organizers, and more — we give thanks for those of you who remind us of our inherent and priceless worth inside of a relentlessly colonizing and unforgiving economic machine.

As we continue to shift our ways to a world beyond capitalism-as-the-assumed-default, we urge you to re-consider where you place your sense of value and worth.

We encourage you to use this odd and heavy era to rework how and where y/our time, dollars and might come together to make a way out of none. 💰

Habari Gani? Ujima! On this third day of Kwanzaa, we are reflecting on Collective Work and Responsibility — the reminder...
12/29/2025

Habari Gani? Ujima! On this third day of Kwanzaa, we are reflecting on Collective Work and Responsibility — the reminder that we are called to make our neighbor’s visions our visions, and to shoulder our communities troubles as our own.

This year, our seasonal programs, national trainings and regional rides and events helped bear the weight of our communities experiences of grief, fear, political attacks, and systemic disinvestment.

Using tools of vulnerability, witness, movement, and intentional embodied practice, we gathered to resource one another and to break ourselves out of isolation. We applaud all those who joined us in choosing collaboration over competition and community over convenience.

As we enter another winter and year, we implore you to continue turning to your neighbor and putting in practice collective work with one another, whether you are rebuilding the block or walking through a season of heavy grief. We need one another, and you — yes, you — are worthy of witness and active support.

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