Plotting on the Body with Jj Fadaka

Free workshop for for queer, trans, intersex and non binary people of colour

Doors 17.00, event 17.30-19.30

Plotting on the Body is a reflective writing and collage workshop for QTPOC feeling the weight of expectations on the way they present gender and queerness in their bodies.

We will collage with maps to discuss the way beauty, work and pain manifest in our bodies, how we want to present vs the expectations of a heteronormative racialised society. Join the group to create in a supportive, brave environment for people who self-identify as queer, non-binary, trans people categorised by colour.

We will discuss what is means to ‘queer’ our understanding of the body and take example from shifting non-conforming bodies elsewhere in the natural world.

You can expect:

• Writing prompts
• Collaging with maps
• Group discussion and listening
• Food and hot drinks

In group exercises, we will imagine and share the resources we need to take us to a non-conforming world with collaboration, solidarity and mutual understanding.

About Jj Fadaka

Jj Fadaka is a writer, facilitator and radical based in Edinburgh. Their writing explores the possibility abolition, feminism, and love give us to create change. In workshops, Jj draws on afro-futuristic radical traditions to create space for exploring desire in a world without barriers. Jj organises events for political education and finding belonging with music, visual arts and performance.

Booking information
Booking in advance is essential. Places are free and limited so, if you are unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible so we can offer your place to someone else.

We are serving food at this event - please email themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk with any dietary requirements.

Venue & Accessibility
The event is located at the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive in Edinburgh Palette. There is information on how to get to us on public transport and by car, along with access information, on our location & accessibility page.

Any other questions
Please email us: themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk.