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VaChina和其ta华语酷儿女权团体一起，承诺响应巴勒斯坦人关于抵制、撤资和制裁（BDS）的国际呼吁，支持并遵守巴勒斯坦抵制以色列学术和文化运动（PACBI）。 我们也敦促其ta行动领域的组织发起行动声明或联署。如需协助，可联系 @pal_solidarity_zh

目前已经有多位社群小伙伴参与月捐支持Nehad Alkhatib一家, 也欢迎你转发给信任的伙伴一起加入。 欢迎私信我们报名！也可填写biography中的报名链接参与

🌸难熬的冬季终于过去，这个春天，VaChina邀请小伙伴们一起来参加瑜伽工作坊！   🧘本次瑜伽工作坊的主题是：关节养护。社群伙伴无花果将带领大家在瑜伽教室ZenW2 Collective一起做瑜伽，疏解身体和情绪的压力。场地将提供瑜伽垫和其它用具，但也欢迎你带上自己的垫子。让我们在一个安全舒适的空间里，一起放松身心，共同疗愈吧！ ✨时间：3.22 周日2-4pm 💆🏻‍♀️地点：ZenW2, London, NW2 5HT   P.S. 本次活动免费，先到先得。由于场地限制，我们只有10个名额。如果你在报名后无法参加活动，请尽快转让，或私信我们。 🍀报名链接见bio

❄️难熬的冬季，VaChina邀请小伙伴们一起来参加瑜伽工作坊🧘   社群伙伴龙咕咕将带领大家在她熟悉的瑜伽教室ZenW2 Collective一起做瑜伽，疏解身体和情绪的压力。场地将提供瑜伽垫和其它用具，但也欢迎你带上自己的垫子。让我们在一个安全舒适的空间里，一起放松身心，共同疗愈吧🍵 ⏰时间：14 Dec 周日 4:30-6:30 🏠地点：ZenW2, London, NW2 5HT 龙咕咕：300hr Yoga Alliance 认证瑜伽教师/full stack 摇奶茶专家/脱口秀预备备选手，兴趣和研究方向是疏解情绪、压力和创伤导致的躯体化“淤堵”。   👀P.S. 本次活动免费，先到先得。由于场地限制，我们只有10个名额。如果你在报名后无法参加活动，请尽快转让，或私信我们。 报名链接见bio

🌳 What does #heritage mean, and how it evolves throughout time and space? 🍂 During the collab #fungi walks with @vachina2021 we explored a lot about relationships. 🍄 It is the relationships between people and #EppingForest throughout the centuries that shaped the Forest as we see today. It is the relationships between fungi and plants that create the ‘wood wide web’ that we get to know about. And our relationships with ourselves, with each other, with the community, with the environment, with life and death, with the past and the future, as well as with the land that nurture and support us, make us who we are. 💚 Relationships are constantly evolving, adapting and in the process of becoming. It’s like the weaving activities we did, or doodling and sketching, it’s a process of making. This is why community co-creating events like these are so empowering: together, we can build narratives about connections and mutual support, and work for a space (literally and metaphorically) where all can thrive. 📷 1-3: Heritage Walk & Weaving, facilitated by @alwayshing , photos by @manuel_komnenos 📷 4-6: Lifecycle & Change of Seasons, facilitated by @53deathcafe , photos by @enjou28 🥾These events are part of the ‘Epping Forest Heritage For All’ programme, a three-year project that is run by @eppingforestht in partnership with Muslim Hikers and Black Girls Hike. It is funded by @heritagefunduk and supported by @coleppingforest who owns and manages the Forest.

What can fungi offer us in our reflections and contemplation of death and dying? Learning about how fungi is the bridge between life and death, both biologically and spiritually, can be so liberating when death and dying are so often constructed, on very Eurocentric and Capitalistic terms, as something that should be feared, hidden and individualistic. The death of a tree is not the end of life - it keeps on hosting lives. When death happens in the forest, fungi break down the dead and send the nutrients through the Wood Wide Web to the living. How do our own presence and memories live through the webs of community and connections? 🌳🌿🍃🍂🍁 I have so much gratitude for @eppingforestht and the friends that joined us last Sunday for a special edition of 53 Death Cafe. We took a walk through the forest, stoping to admire trees and mushrooms, and finally stopped by a little pond for a little bit of mindful silence and somatic practice - we settled into the forest, connected with our favourite being, and tuned in to the connection. It’s a dream come true for me to create an embodied death cafe experience that goes beyond words and back into the body and nature. And I hope there’s more to come!!

🍄🍂 Wonderful collaboration with @vachina2021 for two walks in the beautiful #EppingForest themed ‘Fungi & Us: connections across space and time’. 📷 Photo 1-7: by @enjou28 - Cycle of Life and Changing Seasons, facilitated by @53deathcafe on 26th October. 🌳 We spent time with the ancient Forest and its #fungi network, heard stories of how people’s relationship with the trees and lopping practices shaped the space as we see today. We reflected on what death and cycle of life mean for the natural world and how nature can inform and support us in rebuilding relationships between the individual, the collective, the environment we are in, the land and nature that nurtures us, and the experience of life and death. We learned to identify key native tree species from the fallen leaves, and also drew inspirations from the Forest and the interconnectedness of the ecosystem, doodled and sketched as we go. We felt grounded, connected, supported, nurtured and fascinated by the abundance of the autumn Forest. 📷 Photo 7-13: by @manuel_komnenos - Heritage Walk & Weaving, facilitated by @alwayshing 🥾 On the day of the Double Ninth Festival (29th October), we followed the ESEA tradition to walk to a higher ground, High Beach in Epping Forest, while discovering the Forest’s many wonderful fungi along the way. We then brought our observations and impressions from the #fungiwalk and used looms to weave fibre structures inspired by the #mycelialnetwork. We reflected on the relationships between fungi and the Forest, people and the place, past and future, and with words and threads, we attempted to develop new #heritage narratives: about adaptation, connection, and the creation of new possibilities. Thank you @high_beach_church_loughton for hosting us! These walks are part of the ‘Epping Forest Heritage For All’ programme, a three-year project that is fun by @eppingforestht in partnership with Muslim Hikers and Black Girls Hike. It is funded by @heritagefunduk and supported by @coleppingforest who owns and manages the Forest. . . . #LoveEppingForest #EppingForestWalks #EppingForestHeritageForAll #Community

A meeting point of flavours, prints, and feminist imagination — artists, chefs and collectives bringing food, zines, and participatory art to Alternative Roots. Marketplace will be open throughout the day of 8th November from 13:00 in @hoxtonhall VaChina 阴道中国 @vachina2021 Feminist art stall by the SOAS-based collective, building a transnational Chinese and ESEA feminist network through colour, humour, and activism. Outland Publishing @outlandpublishingfair A pop-up stall of artist books, zines, and printed matter from the Sino-diasporic publishing platform Outland, spanning photography, writing, manga, and research-based publications. Yulin Huang @yuyulinnnnnn Taiwanese Visual artist presenting a pop-up project Draw Your Own Tarot Card — where audiences can drop in, chat, and create personalised tarot drawings. A selection of her art prints is also for sale. @timmysfusion Asian fusion food — bold, home-made flavours with a creative twist. @homikitchen.uk Crazy rich flavours of Singapore — celebrating warmth, spice, and home through food. 🎟 Alternative Roots — a one-day festival of live art, film, and conversation by ESEA artists. 📅 8 November 2025 | Hoxton Hall, London 🔗 Full programme and tickets via link in bio #AlternativeRoots #MingStrike #HoxtonHall #Kakilang #ESEAartists #LiveArt #ZineCulture #ESEAFood #ESEAcommunity

这个十月，@vachina2021 与@eppingforestht 会在Epping森林举办两场fungi walk。 我们希望邀请大家来加入我们，走进森林，共同思考我们与自然的关系，进一步建立全新的关于遗产、生死与哀伤的叙事，借用不同的媒介，探索我们可以如何带着更加具身与植根自然的体验来建立关系、彼此关怀与支持。 两场活动均免费，活动语言均为中文。 活动报名链接在@vachina2021 的IG主页。 活动1: 生命轮回与季节变换 时间：10月26号，12:30 – 16:00 中午12.30在 Loughton underground station集合 在本期与@53deathcafe 的合作活动中，@enjou28 和@amyamy42 邀请大家一起到Epping Forest徒步，通过与菌类和植被共处，近距离了解死亡与生命轮回在森林中的体现，以及自然如何支持我们重建个人、大地、社群与生死的关系。 我们会提供给大家纸笔以及一些引导性的问题，以便大家可以在走走停停中写写画画，在森林的陪伴中探索我们与我们所在的、以及我们土生土长的土地的关系，自然与大地如何支持我们与死亡及死亡后的未知共处，在自然的隐喻中，思考在自己和身边的人经历死亡与哀伤时，我们可以如何通过社群的力量给予彼此陪伴和支持，在生死轮回与四季变化中，我们如何建立新的有关文化、生死与自然的遗产叙事。 活动2: 重阳登高与自然编织 时间：10月29号，10:20 – 15:20 早上10.20在Loughton underground station集合 重阳时节@amyamy42 和 @alwayshing 带领我们一起登高望远，在Epping Forest展开结合 fungi walk 与编织的一日活动。邀请大家思考人与森林的关系，分享各自的故事，进一步发展新的遗产叙事，关于如何适应环境、建立连接，以及如何在打破旧有结构中创造新的可能。在编织环节中，我们将带着 fungi walk 中的观察与感受，使用织机共同编织象征菌丝网络的纤维结构。我们也将带来与主题相关的书籍和独立出版物供大家阅读与交流。 海报设计：@manuel_komnenos These events are part of the 'Epping Forest Heritage For All' programme, a three year project run by @eppingforestht in partnership with @muslim.hikers and @bgh_uk . It is funded by @heritagefunduk and supported by @cityoflondoncorp , who owns and manages the Forest.

30年前，四万余名来自189个国家的代表齐聚北京怀柔，参加第四届世界妇女大会，“妇女权益即人权”的口号响彻帐篷。八十年代以来，女性学术与行动者在政治与社会的缝隙中，通过高校研究中心和非政府组织，探索维护女性与性少数权益的新道路。三十年后的今天，这些追问依然切中要害。2025年，我们痛失李小江与高小贤等前辈学人。借“95世妇会纪念读书会”，我们希望从九月中起，一起阅读与讨论相关研究，回望亲历者与行动者的经验，延续这段历史记忆，向先驱致敬。 📖我们安排了三次线上读书会，分别在9月20日、9月27日和10月4日，伦敦时间上午11点开始，预计时长1至1.5小时。讨论内容包括95世妇会的议题、李小江的著作及高小贤的作品。 我们也安排了一次伦敦线下讨论活动，与Susie Jolly见面。Susie Jolly现为英国发展研究所（IDS）荣誉副研究员，也是独立顾问、研究者和培训者。她在1990年代曾积极参与北京早期的女权与酷儿行动，组织过酷儿派对，并共同创办中国最早的同志传呼热线，同时也是“东西方女权翻译小组”的早期成员之一。 为了建立互相信任的阅读空间，请大家提前注册。我们也理解大家可能身处不同的时区和地区，因此对于9月27日的线下讨论活动，为确保固定人数并顺利与Susie进行对话，我们会在活动前再次进行宣传提醒。 🔗注册链接见bio

VaChina作为华语女权酷儿社群正在响应巴勒斯坦团结月捐号召，呼吁社群成员，特别是在英国的成员加入我们，一起向对接的巴勒斯坦家庭捐款。 请有意向加入月捐的小伙伴直接私信我们，我们会联系你分享更具体的月捐方式🍉

🧠XP大辞典｜工作坊回顾💦 感谢7月6日来到“XP大辞典”工作坊的朋友们！ 本次工作坊以Audre Lorde《The Use of The Erotic》中的文字作为开场白。借助Yuka为大家准备的《XP大辞典 学习资料 内部版》，大家依次走进了四个单元：“腐”、“政治同人、史同与‘表圈’”、“女同性恨与袁立文学”以及“BG? GB? 四爱? 女尊?”。通过特定文本的讨论，大家一起思考那些色情叙事如何跳脱出父权与强制异性恋的规训，又如何为酷儿亲密关系打开更多想象的可能。 在互动环节，大家一起填写了“XP同学录”，一起分享了各自对“XP”的个人理解、偏好和探索旅程。 最后，感谢DJ Artist Yuna (@yunaa_sparasii ) 为大家带来的DJ set，激活了我们对于中文互联网酷儿主题bgm的声音记忆，将关于欲望、快乐与自由表达的讨论延续到身体与感官之中。 👀⚠️如果你错过了这次活动，欢迎前往@pubis_project 主页下载“XP同学录”的pdf版，希望不论你身处何处，都能身体力行地拥抱并享受属于自己欲望的快乐。🧚‍♀️ 💕特别感谢：VaChina (@vachina2021 ） 🗿场地支持：Pelican House (@pelican.house ） 📹摄影：Dingding (@stealthetime ); Jessie (@412whore_ ） 🧠XP Lexicons | Workshop Recap💦 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the XP Lexicons workshop on July 6th! We opened the workshop with words from Audre Lorde’s ‘The Use of The Erotic’. With the ‘XP Lexicons Textbook: Internal Edition’ prepared by Yuka, we explored four key units: ‘腐 (Fu),’ ‘Political RPF, Historical RPF & the 表圈 Subculture,’ ‘Lesbian Hate-Love & Yuan Li Literature,’ and ‘BG? GB? Pegging? Femdom?’ Through the selected texts and discussions, we collectively examined how erotic narratives that break away from patriarchal and comphet dominance can open up new possibilities for imagining queer intimacy and sexuality. In the interactive session, participants filled out the XP Yearbook, using their own words to share personal preferences, reflections, and journeys of exploring ‘XP.’ Finally, huge thanks to DJ Artist Yuna (@yunaa_sparasii ) for an electrifying DJ set that activated a unique sonic memory of queer themes in the Chinese internet, extending our conversations about desire, pleasure, and freedom into embodied, sensory experience. If you missed the event, you’re warmly invited to visit @pubis_project bio to download the XP Yearbook PDF. Wherever you are, we hope you’ll be inspired to embrace and enjoy the pleasures of desire—both in body and mind. 💕Special Thanks: VaChina (@vachina2021 ) 🌊Venue Support: Pelican House (@pelican.house ) 📹Photography: Dingding (@stealthetime ); Jessie (@412whore_ )