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The Black Joy Project ®️

Non-Profits & Religious Organizations
@theblackjoyproject
Est. 2015 | 🖤Black joy is an act of resistance✊🏾🌈✨Facilitated by Kleaver Cruz ✨ For Events + Speaking Leslie Shipman,
  • Spirituality & Religion
  • Following 4.3K
  • Followers 11K
  • Engagement 1.83%
  • Avg comments 22

About The Black Joy Project ®️

The Black Joy Project ®️ (@theblackjoyproject) is a Non-Profits & Religious Organizations creator on Instagram, also filed under Spirituality & Religion. The account has 11,044 followers and 571 published posts. Recent posts average 202 likes and 22 comments, an engagement rate of 1.83%.

With 11K followers, The Black Joy Project ®️ is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. The Black Joy Project ®️ follows 4,287 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.6 times the size of the list followed. The Black Joy Project ®️ carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files The Black Joy Project ®️ under Non-Profits & Religious Organizations, with Spirituality & Religion as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for The Black Joy Project ®️ runs to 18 words across 3 lines. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for The Black Joy Project ®️ dates from December 2023.

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571 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for The Black Joy Project ®️, 6 are carousels and 4 are videos. That mix leans toward carousels. The Black Joy Project ®️ has built a substantial archive of 571 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 19 followers for each post published. The Black Joy Project ®️ also keeps 5 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 113 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include world, conversation, healing, part and blackjoyiseverywhere. The captions tag #theblackjoyproject, #blackjoyiseverywhere, #blackjoy, #blackcreatives and #blackjoyhealing.

During our event last week we asked the question “What would a world centred on Black joy look and feel like?” 💭🖤✨

Kleaver invited us to reflect, to celebrate, and to reimagine joy as something intentional, transformative, and collaborative.

Together, Kleaver guided us to create joy themed poems and collages that centred on what Black joy means to us.

We encourage you all to reflect on what brings you joy 🙏🏾

#blackjoy #blackcreatives #blackartistoninstagram
This week we had the pleasure of hosting of in London to discuss Black joy, queer joy, and the power of community for health and healing 🖤 🫶🏽

Their work is instrumental in helping us explore Black joy and health as anti racist praxis 🙌🏽

Thank you to everyone who joined us and made it unforgettable! We're honored to be on this Black joy journey with such a vibrant community of creatives, researchers, health practitioners and joy seekers ✨☀️🌱

#blackjoy #blackjoyhealing #BlackLondon #HealthResearch #BlackAuthors
DOING THE MOST TOUR
Stop #1 Pittsburgh, PA I can't wait to meet you!!

📅 Monday, April 6th, 2026 - 6:45pm
📍East Liberty Library

I will be in conversation with author, Kleaver Cruz of!

We'll be discussing "Black Joy in Practice" - what does it look like to live and reclaim our joy and how we do it everyday.

DM or check Stories to RSVP.

#blackjoyproject #books
#TheSecretLifeofTK #podcast
Join us for an uplifting evening of good conversation, food, music, and community.

Kleaver Cruz (Facilitator of and Author of The Black Joy Project) joins Dr Tanisha Spratt and Dr Nkasi Stoll (King's College London) for a captivating conversation on Black joy.

Kleaver will explore topics such as radical imagination, Black queer joy, and Black joy as a source of healing.

Hear more about the funded Black Joy as Anti-Racist Praxis study and how you can get involved!

📅 28th April 2026
🕕 6–8PM
📍 Great Hall, Strand, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG (King's College London, Strand Campus)

➡️ RSVP now: Grab your ticket before they go!

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#BlackJoy #BlackJoyHealing #BlackExcellence #BlackCreatives #BlackVoices
Ten yeara ago today, I posted this picture of my mom. It was only a couple of weeks into what would become The Black Joy Project. Remembering her beautiful smile is a huge part of what inspired this Spirit-led impulse to make more room for joy. She is a person who has had many challenges along her path and yet still has chosen joy so many times. Her smile is a reminder that joy can always exist at the same time as what causes pain. That year our small family suddenly lost my Uncle Ali, her little brother Ali. And yet she, we, had moments of joy.

Looking back now, the gratitude is even greater for a smile that continues to glow across time.

Happy 10 years to answering the call to make more space for joy and using it as a tool to face all that attempts to steal it from us.

10 Year Logo cred:

#BlackJoyIsEverywhere #TheBlackJoyProject #Happy10TBJP
It is with heavy hearts that we at The Black Joy Project share our condolences for the recent loss of our friend and comrade Joyce Prado. We had the honor and privilege to be in conversation with her this past November as part of ‘s #KinFest. Joyce was and will always be a voice of a people and a generation. We are thankful for her generosity and deep commitment to Black communities within and far beyond Brazil. We are thankful for the incredible legacy she has left us. You will be missed something serious Joyce, but never forgotten. May your spirit continue its journey✨🕊️ Please watch the rest of this convo, it was an amazing one that speaks to the importance of building solidarities across Black communities in the world. 🔗 is you know where. #blackjoyiseverywhere #theblackjoyproject
🫶🏽✨ #blackjoyiseverywhere #theblackjoyproject
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! Thank you to the Day 1s and the Day 1000s, whether you’ve joined us recently or been here from the jump we send you love and appreciation! TBJP is unapolagetically a Black queer space that uplifts Black TLGBQIA+ and femmes as a means to uplift all Black people. We are a stand for healing and being well as a means of liberation for us ALL. Welcome!✨🥰✨ Go and get you a copy of the latest manifestation of TBJP which is a book published by and edited by the incomparable! 🔗 in bye-o!!! #TheBlackJoyProject
Today is the day mi gente! THANK YOU is all we can say! Thank you to the ancestors and all that came before us and made the choices they made and did the things they did so that we had a source of strength—of joy—to tap into in our times of existence. It truly takes a squad to make a book happen, thank you to the team, with a special shout out to who has been more than an editor in this process, a true champion of this book. Thank you to who did a breathtaking design of the inside of this book after only one initial conversation. The love is felt. Thank you to the 50+ artists who said yes to being a part of this project and trusting that your work will be honored as it should🫶🏽✨ This is our newest contribution to this thing we know as Black joy. A force that can’t ever be taken away because it was never given in the first place. May each person that experiences this be moved to not only create more joy in the world, but allow that to be a pathway to healing so that we can address all that stands in the ways of our joys✨🖤✨ #TheBlackJoyProject #PubDay #BlackJoyIsEverywhere
One of the most incredible and unforeseen blessings of this book making process has been the opportunity to not just bring in BEAUTIFUL art to the pages but also (and maybe more importantly) to connect with beautiful ARTISTS who are up to inspiring things in the world both through their art and the various other parts of their lives. It has been intentional that each and every person here is a part of this book. It is intentional that there is a range in age, experience and geographic location. Literally from 20-somethings to 70-somethings and from Melbourne to Milwaukee. We were supposed to come together in this way for reasons that are still being revealed. THANK YOU will never be enough to express the gratitude for each of them saying YES. Get into all this talent! (see comments for their (@)s cuz IG has a tag limit) This is a celebration (one of many) for the artist’s role in changing the world 🥳✨🫶🏽 AND thank you to the friends + fam of TBJP for sharing photos from your personal collections!

The Black Joy Project ®️'s engagement

The Black Joy Project ®️'s engagement rate on Instagram is 1.83%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 55 followers. Comments stay close to likes on The Black Joy Project ®️'s posts, at 202 likes and 22 comments on average, about 9.2 likes per comment.

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1.83%

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Avg comments
22
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1 : 55

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Who is The Black Joy Project ®️?

The Black Joy Project ®️ (@theblackjoyproject) is a Non-Profits & Religious Organizations creator on Instagram, also filed under Spirituality & Religion. The Black Joy Project ®️ carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for The Black Joy Project ®️ runs to 18 words across 3 lines.

How many followers does The Black Joy Project ®️ have?

The Black Joy Project ®️ has 11,044 followers on Instagram (11K). The Black Joy Project ®️ follows 4,287 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.6 times the size of the list followed. The Black Joy Project ®️ has built a substantial archive of 571 posts.

What is The Black Joy Project ®️'s engagement rate?

The Black Joy Project ®️'s engagement rate on Instagram is 1.83%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 55 followers. Comments stay close to likes on The Black Joy Project ®️'s posts, at 202 likes and 22 comments on average, about 9.2 likes per comment.

What does The Black Joy Project ®️ post about on Instagram?

Flinque files The Black Joy Project ®️ under Non-Profits & Religious Organizations, with Spirituality & Religion as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for The Black Joy Project ®️, 6 are carousels and 4 are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for The Black Joy Project ®️ repeatedly use the words world, conversation, healing, part and blackjoyiseverywhere. The Black Joy Project ®️'s captions carry hashtags such as #theblackjoyproject, #blackjoyiseverywhere and #blackjoy. The Black Joy Project ®️ writes those captions mainly in English. The Black Joy Project ®️ keeps 5 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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