Queer Care Camp: Juliet Jacques, Queer Catharsis: Fiction and Memoir Writing
Sunday 24 October, 2-4pm
Writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques will host a workshop as part of Queer Care Camp. In this two hour session, Jacques will discuss how to write a narrative for fiction or memoir. Using Leslie Feinberg’s historical fiction novel Stone Butch Blues (1993), as a starting point, the session will explore how to have complex conversations related to queerness through writing and how it can act as a transformative tool.
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Booking Information
Free; booking essential
For queer people of all ages
About Juliet Jacques
Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published three books, including Trans: A Memoir (Verso, 2015) and the short story collection Variations (Influx, 2021). Her essays, criticism and journalism have appeared in many publications, from The London Review of Books to Tribune, and her short films have screened in galleries and festivals worldwide. She hosts Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm - a radio programme that looks at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts. She teaches at the Royal College of Art, City Lit and elsewhere.
About Queer Care Camp
Queer Catharsis: Fiction and Memoir Writing is part of Queer Care Camp, a space for LGBTQIA+ creatives and their allies to make, think and rest. This is a space to come together, to share resources and to reimagine LGBTQIA+ communities that survive and thrive. Hosting a range of queer care community organisations, including Mosaic LGBT+ Young Person’s Trust, as well as artists Sapna Agarwal, Juliet Jacques, Cannach MacBride and Linda Stupart, the Camp centres the question: ‘What is Queer Care?’. Generating collaborative outcomes and public events, the project will explore how past, present and future care can provide tools for our current social, political and ecological crises, and hopes.
Queer Care Camp is a project conceived by Conal McStravick which forms part Studio Voltaire's Desperate Living – an ongoing programme that brings artists, public organisations and informal groups together to test out new and experimental forms of collaborative programming, knowledge sharing and production, explored through the lens of LGBTQIA+ healthcare.
Covid safety
Studio Voltaire encourages you to wear a face mask for the safety of our visitors and staff unless you are exempt. Please note, this event is subject to change owing to any updated government Covid-19 guidelines.