When our lives are suddenly turned upside down, things can be daunting. Marginalised communities have always engaged in creative means and approaches to survival. We honour our collective journeys past, present and future, affirming our identities and the tools we have developed to ensure our survival in the face of sudden or sustained crisis.

April 20th - Shadow Sistxrs Fight Club: the Medicine within

Practicing Self-Defence is a paradoxical concept when considering that, to practice it, we usually must find ourselves in intimate spaces with other bodies. SSFC explores Self-Defence and Herbalism as an internal medicine that is activated when our bodies exist in isolation, and re-discover the tools our ancestors have already cultivated for creative and spiritual flourishing.

April 23rd- In conversation w/Jade Jackman

Jade’s visual work is at once an aesthetically gorgeous crimson surrender to intimate and often dangerous cultural phenomena and a stark yet sensitive documentation of the movements she captures. Her work speaks much on the damaging ways in which we portray gender based violence and domestic abuse, and the importance of seeking ways in documentation that empathise and empower rather than subjugate and objectify. In this conversation, Jade speaks about the impact quarantine has on domestic abuse rates and the effect isolation has on vulnerable women and queer communities.

April 24th- Online Intimacy w/Lina Bembe : finding resources and ways to nurture and expand our erotic imagery

Now that there is plenty demand for erotic labor, means of accessing sexual pleasure have shifted to online spaces. Lina approaches what sort of possibilities exist out there, from the pornographic to sex educational, to erotic literature and podcasts. In terms of intimacy and portraying our own bodies in these spaces, she addresses some questions of safety and privacy, giving us some resources of erotic imagery and tips in case we'd like to become the erotic subject.

April 25th- Tobi & Bronwen in conversation: Sex work, sexuality and parenthood

70% of sex workers are mothers. And yet, the topic of sex work and parenthood, let alone sexuality and motherhood, is a taboo that harms individuals, familities and communities. Sex working parents are stigmatised into silence for reasons that have more to do with societies propensity towards shaming sex workers and sexuality than any wrong doing of the parent. Tobi and Bronwen are sex working parents whose experience in both sex work and artistic mediums such as facilitation, film, photography and music explores something of what it means to be a parent navigating, surviving, thriving and defying the stigma of sex work and sexuality, and how we can all engage with creating a society that supports rather than shuns sex working parents.