Let's Talk About Family, seeks to engage in a conversation on queer family across layers: the messy, the joyful, the undone, and the reimagined. The symposium welcomes sessions ranging from panels and talks to communal dialogues to interactive activities and rituals.
This year's themes consist of:
Family Drama: queer kinship through conflict and care. E.g. navigating adoption, migration, cultural clashes, and generational gaps.
It Takes a Village: looking at the communities that raise us, hold us, and show us how to survive. E.g. mutual aid, collective care, and chosen families.
Radical (Re-)imaginaries of Family: what if we threw out the rulebook? We’re dreaming of non-normative, decolonial, expansive visions of what family could be.
While the sessions focus on the (lived) experiences, stories, and knowledges of racialised queer peoples, the symposium is open to all, to engage in a broader dialogue on what does queer family mean and how can we challenge normative notions of family.
This event is exclusively for racialised, ethnicised and migrantised LGBTQIA+ people
Registration and details of the program can be found oncoloredqollective.org
About Colored Qollective
Colored Qollective is a foundation by and for racialised, ethnicised, and migrantised LGBTQIA+ people. We are committed to the fostering of community and safe spaces – for us, of us, by us. We seek to foster these spaces where our peoples can find safety, support, strength, care, and love, and at the same time amplify our voices to advocate for the rights of our peoples, in particular the rights of those facing injustices, marginalised, illegalised, or forced to flee. You can read more about us on our website:www.coloredqollective.org
