Writing From Our Queer Bodies

6513 Woodward Avenue,Detroit MI 48202

26 February, 2023

Description

WORKSHOPFEBRUARY 26Sunday from 2–4 p.m. Join E Simon Wolff for gentle, accessible, trauma-aware, body-based practice woven together with writing prompts that invite exploration and expression of queerness as felt and experienced through the portal of the body. We’ll traverse themes like grief, joy, play, sanctuary, tenderness, refuge, pleasure, pain, belonging, and the multitudes of realities and complexities alive within our queer bodies. There will be time for optional sharing if writing/words (and/or movement) emerges in the space that wants to be witnessed by the group. This space is for anyone who identifies as queer, in the broadest sense of that word. If you’re wondering if you and your queerness belong here, you are enough, your queerness is enough, and you belong. No prior experience with body-based practice or writing is required. Come as you are. All bodies, brains, hearts radically welcome. Please bring notebook and your favorite writing utensil and wear clothing you can move in if you feel called. _____________________________________ Participants can send any questions or access needs to [email protected]. _____________________________________ E Simon Wolff (they/them) is a politicized healing practitioner, ritualist, writer, and maker weaving one-to-one and small group somatic, ancestral, and cultural healing spaces / vessels in service to radical care and collective liberation. E’s practice supports people to cultivate embodied resilience amidst lived and intergenerational trauma and oppression. They identify as an antiracist, white racialized, queer, trans nonbinary, neuroqueer person of the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora living with disabilities and chronic illness. E was raised near the forests and shores of Anishinaabe Aki known to settler colonial people as Northern Michigan and is grateful to be seeking and experiencing cultural refuge as an united guest in Waawiiyaatanog / Detroit.