Journaling as Resistance #1 will delve into these themes through an enactment-conversation (listening to excerpts) between Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals’ and Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. Drawing from Lorde’s call to reclaim the erotic as a source of deep knowing and radical transformation, and the meditations Gumbs offers in her book, we will explore the possibility of diving into journaling supported by somatic practices—excavating wisdom from our access to listening.
Together, we will drop into our bodies and breath, listen, map, journal, and engage with the material that arises—each at our own pace and inclination. Participants will be invited to deepen their awareness of their internal landscapes in relationship to the container offered and the collective presence of the group. No prior experience with writing, journaling, or somatic practices is required*.
Somatics practices bridge personal healing with systemic transformation. When combined with journaling, they nourish self-reflection, help us embody the change we seek, support us through discomfort and growth, and enable us to engage with the world more authentically and compassionately. We hope these practices can serve as a vessel for resistance, healing, and connection.
*We recognize that not everyone has the capacity for hearing or writing, and we want to honor that we are all in different places within a harmful, ableist, and predatory world. While we won’t have sign language available for this workshop, we hope to extend these offerings to a larger public in the future, ensuring greater accessibility through various journaling explorations and practices.
Agenda
7:00 – 7:15 PM | Welcome & Orientation (Snacks & Housekeeping)
7:15 PM | Intro & Sensory Check-In: Quotes, Books & Altar
7:30 PM | Immersion Reading: A Conversation between Audre Lorde & Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Sensing into the Body: A Listening Practice
Visual Words, Landscape, and Mapping
7:50 PM |Journaling Prompts (Two Rounds)
8:25 – 8:45 PM | Harvesting & Closing Circle
8:45 – 9:00 PM | Bookstore Open for Browsing & Purchasing
Bio Facilitators: Amélie Gaulier & Mylaèle Negga in partnership with Em Taliana
Mylaèle Negga (She/Her) is a bi-racial woman of French and Ethiopian descent. She is a communicator and storyteller for the United Nations, working on sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s agency and empowerment. She has been engaged in social change through various roles.
Amélie Gaulier (she/they) is a somatic movement therapist, performance artist, and community organizer dedicated to helping people reconnect with the innate power of body-wisdom, collective decolonial repair, and radical imagination. She trusts the interconnected intelligence of our collective bodies to heal and transform through listening and uncovering their stories. As facilitator, she explores how to nurture an emergent pedagogy that supports liberatory ways of being.Of french and mediterranean white-bodied descent, she is based in Brooklyn, NY, on unceded Canarsie land, and is involved in Abolition Solidarity NYC and NYC to Palestine. Learn more at ameliegaulier.com
Em Taliana is a white, LGBTQIA2S+ Identified spiritual life coach and tarot reader. She is here to be of service and dedicated to creating safe, anti-oppression spaces for folx. She is based near Tio'tia:ke (Montreal, QC). She coined the term Journaling as resistance when she offered it via Here4Kids and invited Amélie Gaulier to join.
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Thank you for your understanding with our cancellation policy of 72 hours. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us.
price$30.00