🌱new, free resources 🌱
The deinstitutionalisation now resource list is (A)LIVE. Find it now in my bio.
Institutions are collapsing and we are feeling it. This list of resources is my (first) gathering of objects that might help us to be with and navigate this knowledge and its feelings. And even if we don’t feel like this, these objects might help us to understand the institutions that we are in differently &, hopefully, generatively.
🎵& it comes with a playlist 🎵
Please share & spread widely & get in touch with any thoughts/additions for version two.
More deinstitutionalisation news coming shortly 🌱🌱🌱
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#free
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How can tarot help us to learn what it means to love well - not only in our romantic relationships, but within our blood and chosen families, in our friendships, with the Earth, and in our immediate and wider communities?
In this workshop, we’ll play with tarot as a tool that can help us to think and feel more deeply and attentively through our relationships.
Together, we’ll explore:
- how tarot can help us to build and expand our sense of our relational ecologies;
- how tarot can support us in deepening into vulnerability, tenderness and compassion;
- how tarot can teach us about the kinds of communities we want to be a part of;
- and, how tarot can help us to shed ways of being in the world that get in the way of our love.
All welcome! You do not need to be an experienced reader to take part in this workshop.
@lark_books_
10th June, 7-9pm ( pls note change of date from that originally advertised)
Link to book in my bio
New Substack series on shame and what we might do with it.
Pt. 1: shame / a diagram / a shit yet salutary singing lesson
Link to read in bio. And please send me your examples of queer and female artists who have made great work from their scenes of shame...
*’rope’: a new film-poem *
part of an ongoing project: ‘tender knots’ which explores relational entanglements, shibari, & queer intimacies
made with the support of @cvaneastmidlands
‘rope’ out now in the latest @anarkiss_zine
🔗 to buy in bio
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From ‘Touchpoints’, my latest words on Substack - part of a longer series on how institutions shape our bodies & the things we make.
🔗 to read the whole piece in my bio.
#writing
#institution
#metaphor
#hypermobility
#touchpoint
I’ve been thinking carefully about the kinds of structures that help creative work thrive, and I’m beginning to offer some more specific mentoring containers alongside the work I already do.
These are relational containers for writers, artists, academics and others trying to find more sustainable, embodied ways of working and creating.
Feel free to message me if you’d like to talk ✨
At the hands of @raisa_kabir_textiles_ weaving breaks free from its rigid structures and patterns to lead/thread us instead into its histories of materials and cultural politics and coracles. Another cracking show @hubsleaford 👏
...and
@ruthcharnock has written an excellent review of the show for @corridor8 (find the link in their bio) We bumped into each other at the show and it was all the 🌈ainbows.
'I only dance, I wish we could sing'
until 5 July 🏃♀️
#weaving
#textileart
#fiberart
#installationart
#materialhistory
I’ve been thinking about touchpoints - what helps us find our place when things feel unsteady.
I’m exploring this in a workshop on 4th June.
Link in bio if you’d like to join 🌿
#writing
#workshop
#creativity
*new Substack*
🖐️ what helps us find our edges?
In my body, it sometimes looks like needing something to press against - a point of contact, a place to orient from.
🖐️ In writing, I think it might be the same.
I’ve just published a new piece called Touchpoint about bodies, language, and metaphor as ways of finding our way.
Link in bio if you’d like to read.
words from my latest Substack: ‘Dead|line: notes on institutional time, metaphor & the body’
🔗to read the longer piece in my bio.
🌿I would love to hear your deadline feels! How do deadlines land in your body?
#deadlines
#institutions
#academia
#writing
#metaphor
*listening for metaphor*
A lot of my mentoring work is about listening for metaphor. Listening to metaphors helps me to constellate what your body and world feels like.
In coming to know the metaphors you are with, I can help you to work with them. For example, if you are feeling ‘burnt out’, what might be cooling or anti-inflammatory right now?
This is something I also think about in a piece I’ve just shared on Substack, drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa’s writing on metaphor as something that lives in and moves through the body.
If metaphors can constrict, they can also open. They can be reworked, loosened, re-inhabited.
I can help you with that.
If you’re working on a creative or academic project and want support thinking, writing, or moving through it, I offer 1:1 mentoring.
🔗 Substack + mentoring info in bio, or get in touch in the DMs.
*Deadlines: new thoughts and an invitation*
“ Deadline.”
Can you feel the life inside this word?
I’ve been writing about deadlines — where the word comes from, what it once meant, and how its logic still lives in the body.
About how a line that once marked where you could be killed has become something we organise our working lives around.
And about what it might mean to begin to loosen that line from inside ourselves.
I’ve shared an excerpt of a longer piece on Substack. Link to read &/or listen in bio.
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I’ll also be working with some of these ideas in 'Touchpoints', an upcoming writing workshop that thinks together about how we find orientation, connection, and gentler forms of holding in our creative lives.
4th June
7-9pm (GMT)
Zoom
link in bio.
