Every day from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm

Five days of reflection, movement, embodied and theoretical experimentation: we’ll explore themes of the body, power, failure, pleasure, and the future — all through the lens of queer theory. Expect gentle body practices, group discussions, collective writing, reading, rituals, and games that connect personal pasts with utopian futures.

Topics and authors include:

— Foucault, Butler, Puar, Halberstam, Muñoz, Suyarkulova, Mamedov, and others

— Failure as power

— Pleasure and joy as resistance

— The queer archive as utopia

— Time, body, voice, dance, writing, play

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Saltanat Shoshanova is a researcher and activist working at the intersection of queer-feminist art, decolonial theory, and memory practices. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Regensburg in the project “Light On! Queer Literary Cultures under Socialism,” where she writes about queer culture in Central Asia. Through her texts, projects, and artistic practice, Saltanat explores strategies of resistance and ways of rethinking trauma, identity, and history through the lens of queerness and embodiment. She is the author of publications in History & Memory and Central Asian Survey, and co-editor of the volume Queer-Feminist Solidarity and the East/West Divide.

Learn more: shoshanova.com

Who it’s for:

The workshop is open to anyone interested in queerness, the body, resistance, and self-expression — regardless of theoretical background. We welcome both those new to queer theory and those who have been living it for years.

The space aims to be supportive, inclusive, and safe for people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, bodies, and ages.

Participation is free. Spots are limited.

The workshop will be held in Russian, with readings in the original English.

To apply, please fill out the form on the website.

Submit your responses by June 30 to: learning@tselinny.org

or fill out the form here: [link to form]

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Selected participants will receive details a week after the deadline, including reading materials and everything you need to know before the workshop begins.

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