Queering DIY is an interactive, co-created, skills-sharing event for adults tired of adulting but who refuse to give up.  We’re here, we’re queer (queer as in the 'Others' of the Others, not limited to gender or sexual preference!), and we’re learning and practicing life & survival skills together. Each gathering, there will be an Activity and a Discussion topic, with the intention of transmuting stagnant energy by:

1. Focused group processing; stretching our imagination & expanding our comfort zones
2. re-connecting w/ the age-old ritual of gathering communally to learn skills together, and make things with our hands.
3. help us to feel more able, and less alone!

• Something to write on
  a notepad, some paper, your phone.  Something you can take notes with, that you won't easily lose (pen & paper, or the notes app on your phone also works)
• Something to write with
  pen, pencil, a keyboard... whatever will allow you to write down your ideas freely
• Your thinking cap, and an open mind 
  ...it can't hurt (:

Don't trip! When you RSVP, let us know what materials you still need, and we'll pick up (or crowd source from other participants) those materials for you before the event, in exchange for a donation of $5-$10 when you arrive (: 

 

OR you can volunteer to help with documentation, clean up, or note-taking as your energetic investment in co-creating the evening! (Let us know what you decide, when you RSVP.)

No. It's a gathering of folks who have dreams, and want support with figuring out how to get them accomplished. While Lo has some experience facilitating spaces, we are not claiming to be experts at anything here.  There will be questions and food for thought to help guide us through the process of connecting the dots, and perhaps you have some experience you'd like to contribute... part of the purpose of these sessions is to get used to the idea of figuring things out *together*. It's also been proven that doing things with our hands activates more areas of our brain than using most other parts of our body, so by writing out our ideas while we brainstorm/discuss, will ideally help us come up with better ideas! (:

Snacks and drinks will be done potluck style. Feel free to bring anything you'd like to share!

Keep in mind, we're capping it at 10 people. We're asking that people try to RSVP at least 48 hours before the event, so folks who volunteered to bring snacks can be notified know how many people are coming, along with any dietary requirements. 

Yes! Please do! If you have supplies you want to share, please let us know when you RSVP so we can update the group's collective inventory for the evening. If you bring things like pens or pencils to share, you can of course take those back home with you at the end of the night!

Great idea! We're working on setting this up, so if you're interested in tuning in via live stream, still RSVP so we can send you the link to join once its ready!

LO here, speaking for myself— first and foremost, as a nonbinary, neuro-spicy, uterus-having, queer 3rd-culture kid, for me it is and has been, a longstanding desire and intention to create, nourish, and protect spaces where people who identify as Queer —and who's very existence as who they are is made to be seen as 'other' and therefore often less safe, less taken seriously, and given less value by the constrictive projections of heteronormative society— can feel and affirm that they are indeed valued, made a priority, and comfortable to be fully themselves. But that said, even some queer spaces can be very binary in their thinking and treatment of people within their own supposed community. Queer life, as all life, is layered.

That said— what is queer? Who is queer?

You're considered queer if…

• you are not heterosexual or cisgender
• you identify as queer
• you are neurodivergent
• you are prioritize and/or strive towards liberation
• youʻve had the lived experience of being systemically “othered” — due to circumstances or traits not limited to gender or sexual preference
• you do not subscribe to heteronormativity
• your lived experience challenges restrictive binary thinking

This is not an exhaustive list, but rather a starting point to get our gears turning.

Wikipedia says that “Historically, queer was a word that is referred to something as odd or strange. As the verb form of queer, queering can refer to the act of taking something and looking at it through a lens that makes it strange or troubles it in some way.” That is the effect queerness on society. That’s the energy we are hoping to tap into with these meetups. If we’re trying to dream up a new world, there is a desire to do things different. Perhaps that makes us all a little queer. Perhaps to be “queer” means to think, even live, expansively. So, if you resonate, maybe you are just a lil bit queer. Or maybe a lot. Or maybe not at all. It’s up to you!