Campaigns & Communities
This year our focus is on Queer Inter-Sections: how our diverse aspects interact and overlap while also maintaining and nurturing distinct cultures, identities and flavours.
The more diverse that we are, the more there are needs to respect and value differences, so that inclusivity enables growth, creativity and understanding, not fear, suspicion and ignorance.
Our QSF Campaign is to build sustainable and better queer communities that find their true strength, love and power. In doing this, we become more able to support both our varied cultures and the individuals who celebrate them.
When no sessions are marked in the schedule, the Campaigns Tent is available for pop up and break-out sessions that follow on from other activities, or as a hang out space for queer activists.
Ethical technology in the age of AI
What is the real cost we are paying for our technological tools? What are ethical alternatives to technological mainstays people have "got used to"? Which overlooked technologies, such as spiritual technologies, do we have access to?
This workshop is a spiritual and revolution-focused exploration of our relationship to technology in all its forms (digital, mechanical, spiritual, craft-based, etc.) We'll start with an exploration of the ethical issues in today's dominant technology industries and our personal entangled relationship to these industries.
Then we'll conduct a hands-on audit of our personal tech stacks (our individual collection of technological tools and equipment), creating pen-and-paper* maps of technology in all areas of our life. We will discuss actionable changes in the short-term, such as alternatives.
[*Pen and paper provided.]
Finally, we'll explore optimistic long-term strategies for the future and next steps towards their direction, such as recycled hardware alternatives, data sovereignty, open source software, ethical supply chains and building demilitarised techno networks.
- Facilitator: Cloud
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: Saturday, 5 pm
Fat trans liberation
The fat positivity and liberation movement has under-served trans people, while fat liberation politics are often missing from trans spaces.
In this participatory discussion and creative workshop, we'll explore the politics of fat liberation as they relate to our trans bodies.
What does fat liberation look like for trans people? How does fat liberation intersect with our political organising around trans, racial and anti-colonial, disability and class justice? After a facilitated discussion with political context, we will do a creative activity to engage with our fat trans bodies lovingly and joyously. Liberation is a practice that requires embodiment and as an artist I encompass this into the workshop
We hope to release tension in our bodies, incorporate the play and joy that is necessary for liberation, and feel lighter. My hope is that everyone leaves the session feeling a deeper, more loving connection to their body and a more conscious understanding and commitment to fat trans liberation.
- Facilitator: Beli
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: Saturday, 3 pm
Intersectionality and Inter-functionality
An introduction to building campaigns and creating communities with Miqxe Kannemeyer, Ravi and Manjur
- Facilitator: Miqxe Kannemeyer, Ravi and Manjur
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: Thursday, 4 pm
Queer activists
Queer activists: Who are we and what do we do.
An open invitation to attendees to speak about their experiences and aims
- Facilitator: Open to all
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: Thursday, 5 pm
Queer Death Cafe
A queer death cafe is a space for the LGBTQIA+ community to come together and talk about death and dying.
There isn't a agenda and topics might range from clinical perspective on end-of-life and medicine, to philosophical reflections on what happens when we die, to personal stories of grief or illness.
- Facilitator: Em
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: 9 am Friday, 8 am Saturday and Sunday
Queer Solidarity Breakfast
Drop-in for Queer Solidarity Breakfast - with Miqxe and friends.
- Facilitator: Miqxe
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: Friday, 8 am
Queering Food
Binary thinking underpins diet logic that separates food and bodies into moralising categories of healthy/unhealthy, good/bad.
In this workshop we consider ways to queer food messages to metabolise shame and judgement and offer new framings that support compassion, healing and liberation for all.
- Facilitator: Lou Aphramor
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: Sunday, 1 pm
The Beginner's Guide to Veganism
This accessible session introduces the basics of veganism for the curious and newly interested.
We'll explore nutrition essentials such as vitamin B12 and protein, plant-based milk and cheese alternatives, and how vegan living can support a healthier, more fulfilling lifestyle for people and planet.
- Facilitator: Edward Daniel
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: Saturday, 9 am
Visioning rural queer community with Malwen
Meet the team behind Malwen, discuss intentional community, help us with some community research and contribute to the building of a queer, land-based community. We'll be casting some magic and dreaming together!
- Facilitator: Malwen queer community trust
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: Saturday, 1 pm
Web of belonging
A space for conversations about belonging to the web of life.
We will explore ideas of indigeneity, decolonisation, spirituality and land connection so that together we can weave a better understating of how we might live in harmony and deep relationship with this wonderful earth.
- Facilitator: Nick Jarvis
- Location: Campaigns & Communities
- Suitability:
- When: Friday, 11 am
