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- Solidarity and Movement
- Orchid Room
This interactive session, “Navigating Narratives – Amplifying LGBTQI Voices in Repressive Contexts,” is designed to empower participants to utilize the power of authentic storytelling to challenge stereotypes, overcome digital security challenges, and amplify marginalized voices within the LGBTQI community. Tailored for the Courage and Caring Space track, the session will be conducted both face-to-face and online, fostering inclusivity and collaboration.
- Brave and caring spaces
- Magnolia Room
This workshop invites you to create your very own Map of a (queer) feminist journey. You can visualize your journey and draw the map that tells your story.
We will draw and craft using different colors and materials. We will get creative, vulnerable, triggered and curious. We will get healed and inspired by each other’s stories!
- New Track 2
- Magnolia Room
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- Magnolia Room
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- Magnolia Room
- Brave and caring spaces
- Magnolia Room
The workshop will provide a space to discuss gender disinformation that is affecting queer and feminist movements across the region. We will discuss how we are getting engaged with Media content and identify what is accurate and trustworthy and what risks or security concerns could gendered disinformation bring to us and the community. At the workshop, we will also share tools and approaches to counter disinformation, fake news and hate speech in digital spaces.
- Solidarity and Movement
- Orchid Room
The session is designed to illuminate the formation of the contemporary queer visibility regime and queer subjectivity, briefly displaying the historical background of its development within contesting power and knowledge technologies and institutional derivation within them. On one side, we will explore the shifting local/regional queer subjectivities; on the other side, we will scrutinize the queer soul and body as a battleground for imperial, (post-)colonial, and authoritarian instrumentalization.
We will delve into how the personal is not only political but also geopolitical, examining how our soul, body, existence, sexuality, lives, and death are geopolitically shaped. Additionally, we will learn to decipher political statements on queer emancipation and topics that are generated and stuck on the boundaries of West/East, North/South, modern/backward, and national/imported dichotomies, geopolitically shaping them.
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Workshop on creating traditional ‘chiy-kuurchak’ dolls. A doll that you can gift, dress up, put as a souvenir or hang on the Christmas tree. This could be your self-portrait 🤍 or we can create a queer circle 🌈
- Solidarity and Movement
- Orchid Room
Session is a discussion with small/medium groups who agree and discuss questions on influence of Russian war to our region and activism in Central Asia and South Caucasus. The war fastened the processes of decolonization and exposed activist groups, individual activists to challenges that we did not have before. They are economic, cultural and ideological.
After the session I hope we can come close to the understanding how far our activism and activists from each other and what we should do or maybe should not do. All this time we tried to solidarize and yet we are not so solidarized. And even sometimes polarized.
- Brave and caring spaces
- Magnolia Room
Harness creativity and radical hope for dreaming others ways of connecting, other ways of building movements and connection with the help of the internet or not.
- Healing and Wellbeing
- Orchid Room
The workshop will discuss how the neglect of self-care and well-being becomes a tool of patriarchy to oppress womxn* by discussing patriarchal socio-cultural norms of our societies.
Through this workshop participants will explore how prioritizing self-care and well-being is not only an act of personal nourishment but also a powerful tool for challenging patriarchal norms and fostering collective empowerment within LBQTI+ womxn’s* communities.
In the workshop, participants will engage in conversations about the self-care and well-being practices that resonate with them as well as discuss potential obstacles that may impede their self-care.
The concluding part of the workshop involves a grounding exercise designed to underscore the significance of tuning into our senses and bodies.
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- Magnolia Room