Conspire:
Embodied Practice Towards Revolutionary Change
Workshop series for queer, trans, and BIPOC organizers and cultural workers to exhale and find resource to fuel their work
Dates:
This is a 5 part series - attendance at all sessions is required
August 30: 1:00 - 6:00pm
September 1, 8 & 15: 5:30-7:30pm
September 19: 1:00 - 6:00pm
Location:
Durham, NC
Description:
According to Miriam Webster, conspire is to: a) join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful act b) to scheme or c) to act in harmony toward a common end. The roots of this word come from Latin conspirare: con meaning “with” and spirare meaning to “breathe”. Breathe. Together.
According to us, conspire is to be gay, do crimes, and take a deep f*cking breath while you’re at it! So let's breathe together, let's conspire, let's build the kind of embodied presence that can wield power towards revolutionary change.
In this workshop series we will engage in body-based practices, political relevance building, relational work, and skill building for organizers and cultural workers. These practices are meant to bring more agency, freedom, connection, pleasure, and power into our lives and communities. By doing this work together – Con-spire – we are inherently deindividualizing and de-shaming the work we all have to do to get free while also gaining the opportunity to learn off of different bodies, histories, and movement locations.
This course will be taught by Yashna Padamsee, Eliana Rubin, and a special guest teacher!
Please fill out the application below by June 18th — we will inform you of your application status by early-July.