We are healer-scholar-activists who curate collective care in the Black feminist tradition through groups, events, research, and more. Our sacred work helps us all get free.
Brittany Bridges
Podcast Co-host, Blafemme Research Co-Curator, Spaceholder (Virtual)
Hi! I'm Brittany, my pronouns are she/her, and I am a WELLS graduate research assistant. As a Black queer woman in research, I was called to this work to bring light to the experiences of misogynoir and other oppressions marginalized people face every day. I wanted to find a space that centered my own healing, as well as the healing of my collective communities. My work centers on the embodiment of Black feminism as it relates to the healing that marginalized people deserve to experience. I strongly believe that my liberation is tied to the liberation of all BIPOC and otherwise marginalized folx around me. With my M.S. in psychology, I have facilitated a breadth of dialogue series for folx with differing social identities to build critical consciousness around our collective liberation. I have also published work related to the liberation of Black queer people in the US.
Della V. Mosley
Founder, CEO, Blafemme Research Co-Curator, Spaceholder (Durham and Virtual)
Hey good people! I’m Della (she/her) and I am a healer, scholar-activist, and spacemaker who uses Black feminist approaches to facilitate holistic wellness for people of the global majority, particularly those who share my identities (Black, queer, femme, recovering academic, relationship anarchist, trauma survivor, or others). I founded Blafemme in 2022 after dreaming of running a space like The Den from "Moesha" my whole life. I want our folx to have access to a space where they can be well, find their people, grow, and play. Learn more about me here.
Gabriel M. Lockett
Blafemme Research Co-Curator
Pronouns: he/him/his
I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida in the Counseling Psychology program. My clinical and research interests are centered on the psychological wellness, facilitation of healing and liberation of QT Black, Indigenous, People of Color. My passion in life is to help others. I believe my purpose is to make this space we exist in better than it met us. I enjoy photography, making music with my friends, laughing a lot, and anything about outer space.
Institution: University of Florida, locket.gmoon@ufl.edu
Degrees: B.S. Biology, M.S. Counseling Psychology
Keonna Knight
Clinical Intern, Spaceholder (Virtual)
Hey there! My name is Keonna Knight and I am a Liberation Coach, Wellness Educator and Counseling Intern at WELLS and Blafemme. I am the daughter of Cynthia Knight, granddaughter of Doris Knight and a descendant of courageous, creative and gifted African and Indigenous folk. As a Black, Queer, Multi-Dimensional Human, I hold space for clients and community members to: (1) BE SEEN, validated and lovingly challenged, (2) gently UNRAVEL and address past and present pains, (3) DREAM and explore practical strategies and healing tools, and (4) TAKE ACTION that aligns their lives with their values, needs and deepest desires.
My counseling approach, which integrates narrative therapy, solution-focused strategies, mindfulness and ancestral healing modalities, centers Black Womxn and marginalized people taking their power back. I help clients living with depression, anxiety and/or low self-worth access their inner compass, confidence and courage to live out their most fulfilled, liberated lives.
When I am not in a counseling session or holding space for our community, I am investing in my personal healing and liberation. This currently looks like skateboarding, letting myself be seen and supported by loved ones and shaking my ass to Beyoncé’s Thique after a full day of work.
Jeannette (or J) Mejia
Blafemme Research Co-Curator
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Jeannette (or J) Mejia, she/her, WELLS graduate research assistant. I’m a Black Dominican-American fat femme from Lawrence, MA who arrived at this work as someone who has been caring for my family, myself and those around me for most of my life. In that position, I bore witness to how violently systems of oppression as they’re enacted through people and institutions fail and harm us. I have always yearned and tried to fight for more (more care, love, tenderness, gentleness, resources) for my people & myself and upon learning more critically about how systems of oppression shape our lives, I committed to co-creating a world that is free from all oppressions. In my work, I often pull from Black feminist-womanist frameworks, my embodied & collective knowledge and the value that all marginalized folks, especially multiply marginalized folks, deserve a better, free world where they are valued, cared for, loved, able to be authentic, experience softness and gentleness and ease. My work ranges in providing workshops that seek to destroy systems of oppression, holding emotionally supportive space with folks (esp. folks who are marginalized), talk therapy, writing, teaching, and more.
Koree Badio
Blafemme Research Co-Curator
Hi, My Name is Koree S. Badio.
As a dreamer, I imagine living in a world that's fueled by love. As a student, I hope to study how to be an effective agent of love. As a woman of faith, I believe that we are all born with a transformative love that lives within us. As an advocate, I seek to make loving-wellness accessible to persons who are systemically deprived of it.
My sincerest belief is that we are all worthy of experiencing a love that liberates us. I strive towards this truth through writing, workshopping, keynote speaking, and scholar-activism.
Pearis Bellamy
Spaceholder (Virtual)
Pearis (she/her) is a Black woman who is passionate about culturally mindful healing interventions for survivors of trauma. She has always been passionate about working with survivors and decided to pursue her PhD in Counseling Psychology to develop skills in counseling, research, and teaching to help survivors on their healing journey. Pearis received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a concentration in Marriage and Families and a minor in Leadership Studies from Hampton University. Currently, she is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Florida. Pearis approaches her work using a Black feminist, africentric, and radical healing lens. She co-founded Academics for Black Survival and Wellness with her mentor, Dr. Della Mosley, in 2020. The initiative has garnered over 15,000 participants from across the world who participate in anti-racism trainings centered on accountability and action (non-Black participants) and wellness workshops and experiences (Black participants). Pearis enjoys developing creative and community-based programs to address social justice issues. She is passionate about working with individuals and groups at all stages to use their positionality and power to address the issues they are most passionate about.
Pearis is available for invited keynotes, workshops, and events for organizations on topics including (a) promoting and supporting Black liberation and healing and (b) scholar-activism as a graduate student.
Chandler Golden
Intern, Spaceholder (Virtual)
Hey, y’all! My name is Chandler Golden and I use she/they pronouns. I have a lot of interests but at the core of it all, I am committed to work that centers on what Dr. Kevin Quashie called “Black aliveness” by centering our capacity for joy and life. I am in my second year of pursuing my Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. At VCU I work with Dr. Shawn Jones in the AYA research team where we focus on Black adolescents and their families. Before VCU I received my bachelor's in Psychology and African American Diaspora Studies from THEE Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. I also received my Masters in clinical mental health counseling at the University of Denver. In both my clinical work and research I use a Black feminist, liberation, and radical healing lens. I was drawn to WELLS and Blafemme as I wanted a space to collaborate with other Black feminist scholars who are equally committed to this work and our collective liberation.