Moving Towards What We Want: Conversations in Queer Relationships and Consent

Join us as we explore a few ideas and skills to intentionally cultivate the loving and prosperous interpersonal relationships we want. In this discussion-based workshop, we will investigate the impacts that relationship myths and beliefs have on our ongoing personal and community connections; reflect on how expectations shape our relationships; and define consent and put it to practice as we steep cups of tea for each other! 🍵🌿

Registrations are open for Blak/ Black and other People of Colour participants. Our conversations will be oriented towards (but not limited to) queer relationships of all kinds and queer community. All materials will be provided. There will be multiple breaks. Participants are encouraged to engage to the degree that they feel most comfortable.

Workshop Facilitators: 

Avanthi (she/ they) is a queer, sinhalese lankan settler living on Wurundjeri land. They have spent a few years facilitating respectful relationships workshops for young people and are an avid student and lover of transformative justice-based approaches to community organising. She wants to spend the rest of their 20s working on manifesting this abundance thing!

Aki is a non-binary and queer mixed race Japanese-American settler, who loves meeting new people, and talking about relationships of all kinds. They’re interested in transformative justice, power, love in its multitudes, and the way that these things shape our lives. One of the best things they ever learned was that we are all the experts of our own experiences. Aki has worked and existed in and around the spheres of kink, art and “human connection through hospitality” for the past decade or so, and has volunteered as a workshop facilitator with Undercurrent since 2019. They are excited to meet you.

This workshop is part of our Queer Lunar New Year events in collaboration with Anti-Colonial Asian Alliance.