This writing workshop is SPECIFICALLY FOR BLACK FOLKS IN THE WHOLE DIASPORA who are and have been plugged into the (too) many active genocides & ragged imperialist agendas around the world.

Covid, Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Tigray, the whole global south, Black folks in the U.S. and on...

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Theme: DIASPORA DREAMING

How would we write if it was just US in the the room? What would we say? How would we say it? How would the would the words dance on the page? What are we able to conjure when not on guard? When not in the presence of the reason we're apart in the first place. Y'all let me be real. I really just want us all together. Being whole for 3 hours while existing in a deeply and frantically unfree world. Experimenting with sound & body & music & and dialect in our poetry.

Content: We will start with intros a grounding and community agreements. We will read poems from Black poets who have conjured and survived. We will discuss them and I will provide prompts in relation to each poem. We will have time to share out. We will take 2 breaks, 1 at each hour.

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Safety:

~ limited to 25 ppl

~ must either verify your insta or by a person I know

~ Will receive zoom link day of

~ registration will cut off 1 day before

Access:

- captions

~ workshop is 3 hours

* Note: this is not an alternative to rage, grief, exhaustion. Because those are natural responses to the horrors. This is an addition. This is not a glossing over or stuffing down. We must feel. We must feel together and openly and loudly.*

About Your Facilitator:

Rise is a queer Black disabled genderfluid femmeboi; A visual artist, poet, full spectrum (birth/postpartum/grief & loss/abortion) birthworker, yoga teacher, meditation facilitator, gender affirming and trauma informed care and disability justice educator, access consultant an community care worker.

Rise is deeply invested in disability justice, access, centering wellness for Black queer folk, trauma education, and rest. An a lover of doing the most