This 7pmCST/8pmEST workshop is open to queer Southern Artists and is hosted by Liz Williams and The Campaign for Southern Equality Artists Studio!

The workshop will feature guided writing exercises, against a backdrop of mindfulness and turning inwards, during this time of deep pain and unrest. After a short time of introductions and check-ins, Aliah will guide attendees through a series of writing exercises. We will go through writing exercises with themes of grief, love, resistance.

Because we are gathering during the season of Nowruz, we will draw inspiration from Chaharshanbeh Suri and Nowruz, and we will end the workshop with a short guided ritual or prayer asking for change, a new spring, new life.

We understand that we are gathering while living in a country that allows, here, the deaths of our marginalized siblings and supports the ongoing genocides of our siblings abroad. The intention for this gathering is two-fold. First, we hope for a place where we can feel our grief and deep love, and as we each reunite with our feeling-bodies, we hope to not only create and discover ourselves through writing, but also support and mirror each other’s experience and strengthen our resolve for change.