House Of Brag - London Queer Social Centre

The London Queer Social Centre will be active from June 29th to July 12th 2014, running a series of events as an alternative to the corporate, homogenised, establishment official Pride London. We prioritise providing a space and a platform to voices that otherwise have difficulty being heard. We would like to hear from groups fighting oppression both here and abroad, from people with stories to tell and ideas to share. Talks, workshops, debates and discussions, film screenings, performances, music and fun, whatever shape your event might take, we’d love to hear about it. If you’re part of a group that would like to run an event during this year’s social centre, please drop us an email explaining your idea to [email protected]

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kind of late but.. the house of brag social centre that was in brixton is closed

and has been since july. sorry to see all your emails and messages asking where we are etc. hope you all had great summers.

HoB x

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Social Centre Will Be Closed Saturday 12th July

Social Centre Will Be Closed Saturday 12th July

We will however be attending the No to TTIP protest at 1pm and you should definitely be there too. We will be MONSTERS against TTIP. ;) ;) ;) more info about #NotoTTIP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/231572717052962/?fref=ts

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travelling alone/feelin nervous

we can meet you at Brixton tube & walk w/ you to the social centre! tweet/fb/email [email protected]

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This evening: Queering disability/trans (&queer) healthcare access/tango

This evening: Queering disability/trans (&queer) healthcare access/tango

6pm Queering Disability – fun & interactive workshop by queer comrades from Disabled People Against Cuts

8pm Trans (& queer) healthcare access – discussion & action planning around how we get pissed around by doctors and gate keepers. We’ll talk about what barriers and problems queer/non-het & trans/gender non conforming people face in the health care system, rant unashamedly about our…

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Slightly delayed but much needed apology.

Slightly delayed but much needed apology.

We’d like to apologise again for Sunday night’s breach of the safer spaces policy during a performance piece by artist Jakamo. Due to a huge over sight on our part there was lack of communication about the nature of the piece which several of the crew would have objected to happening, had we known.

It’s against our politics and personal values to tolerate racism, cultural appropriation,…

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SO EVENT! MUCH ACTIVITY!

SO EVENT! MUCH ACTIVITY!

Today at Brag we have confirmed a bunch more events – YAY!

Wednesday 9th :

2pm Electrical workshop for women and non binary people. Walpole will be teaching basic safety when doing electrics and stuff that may crop up in squats. And no men interfering – nice.

4pm Computer security workshop (open to all genders). This will be for mobiles and laptops. Only bring laptops fully charged as we don’t…

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New Event: Martial Arts

New Event: Martial Arts

Wednesday 9th, 5pm. Also Thursday & Friday – times to be decided.

Martial Arts for all self-identifying women and also genderqueer/trans/non-binary people who feel they have a connection to women’s communities. Please bring comfortable practical clothing.

*kapow!!*

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GET A HAIRCUT!

 we have Cyd from Pop Out Salon doing haircuts for all genders, for one day only! £3 suggested donation!

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Update on evening events

Update on evening events

FRIDAY (that’s tonight!)

19:00 Informal Discussion on experiences of drugs and sobriety in queer spaces.

21:00 Delicious vegan dinner

22:00 Choose Your Own Adventure: queer sober dance party! CYOA is a queer+LGBT dance party for people who want a night out without alcohol/intoxicants – welcoming people of all genders & sexualities, all bodies & characters, and (because of no alcohol) all ages! Fe…

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Todays events in brixton at the House of brag Queer Social Centre

Thursday 3rd July SEX & RELATIONSHIPS [2pm-midnight] [DRY DAY]

2pm Monstrous makeup workshop by Oozing Gloop

4pm Laughter yoga

6pm Knowledge is Power: Sex Ed 101 – sex educator Lilith aims to re-imagine sexual education as something useful, empowering and fun, and seeks to arm their fellow queers with the info and skills to frolic both safely and sensually.

7.15pm Can’t Fuck, Won’t Fuck: a discussion on the limits of sex-positivity – Have you ever felt left out or alienated by sex-positivity and the way it plays out in your interpersonal relationships or in the spaces where you hang out? Have you ever felt pressure to feel/perform desire, to be (or be seen to be) sexually active, to have relationships or date people, to do non-monogamy (or to do it in a specific way), to have fulfilling/pleasurable sex or to have certain kinds of sex? Do you feel like sex-positivity often ignores the reality of living in a racist, ableist, cissexist, hetero-patriarchal rape culture? Have you ever felt like consent shouldn’t be framed in terms of sexiness? Does your queer community fail to make space for people on the asexual and aromantic spectrums?

When most of the queer spaces we have access to are explicitly sex-positive and/or centred around hooking up, talking about sex-negative or sex-critical feelings can often make us feel like kill-joys pissing on everyone else’s sexually liberated parade. This discussion aims to provide a safer space in which to talk about the above questions. We will also be exploring ways in which our queer communities can be more inclusive of those who can’t fuck, won’t fuck, don’t fuck, or who chose to only fuck some of the time.

In order to create as safe a space as possible, we ask that people arrive on time and do not join the discussion once it has begun. Please arrive at 7:15 for a 7:30 start.

The session is open to queer people of all genders or none. Sex-posi people welcome!

This discussion is being facilitated by the writers of the zine FUCKED: on being sexually dysfunctional in sex-positive queer scenes. Contact us: [email protected]

9.30pm Dinner & film screening

D.E.B.S. (Angela Robinson, 2004)

Recruited by the U.S. government for their unique ability to lie, cheat and fight, Amy, Max, Janet and Dominique join an underground academy of secret agents known as D.E.B.S. But when Amy falls for criminal mastermind Lucy Diamond, chaos erupts and the D.E.B.S. loyalty is put to the test…

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todays events at House of Brag in Brixton!!!1one

Wednesday 2nd July BAKING & ENTERING [2pm – midnight]

2pm Unwanted household goods donation event! Bring us yr spare plates, cutlery, cups, cooking equipment, bedding, food for dinner, etc.

7pm Squatting workshop – Squatters Legal Network share practical skills and legal knowledge, essential for all squatters & wannabe-squatters.

9.30pm Dinner & short films

Sass Squat (Sasha Wortzel, 2009) A portrait of an all-queer squat in West Philadelphia. This piece examines the significance of reclaiming underutilized space through the exploration of a unique living space and the people who call it home

Battle of Tutenhaus (Juliet Bashore, 1991) Tutenhaus, the “House of Queers”, a squat in 1980s East Berlin, survived attacks from neo-nazis but was violently evicted by the West German police after reunification.

Colorama 2 (Kahm Fiaa Enck, 2013) a group of strangers inhabit an empty photo printing lab in South London. part of an unwinding spiral of explorations within spaces thought abandoned, their journey together is one of stuttered re-awakenings and collective desires amidst the discards of a dying world

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Quick Important Update

The Bragsters have been working round the clock to get the space ready for tonight’s first event @7pm: Squatters Legal and Practical Workshop with dinner & queer squatting documentaries from 9pm.

Tonight’s programme is pretty relevant as the new space has been under constant police surveillance and our comrades have been subject to intimidation and this morning we had one of our crew arrested.…

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LQSC 2014 LOCATION (and request for help)!

LQSC 2014 LOCATION (and request for help)!

Friends, followers, Brags: we are beyond delighted to announce the location of our next Queer Social Centre will be

430 COLDHARBOUR LANE, BRIXTON, SW9!

Brag is back where queer & radical squatting in London began – where the Brixton Fairies opened their squatted Gay Community Centre in 1974, where Olive Morris fought the police and cracked squats for black families, where squatted women’s centres…

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#RAVINGGAYDEN

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London Queer Social Centre 2014 Programme

London Queer Social Centre 2014 Programme

WELCOME COMRADES! IT’S ALL KICKING OFF!

Here is the programme of events for 2014′s Queer Social Centre. Some things are awaiting further info and are subject to change, but this is basically how the weeks are gonna run…

  Location will be revealed so so so soon. You have no idea how soon (neither do we). But soon. promise.

Closed Days– we will be closed on Mondays & Tuesdays to give the live-in…

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posters and flyers

hi friends,

we have some gorgeous flyer and poster designs for the social centre! please feel free to share them online, print them out, give them to people, stick them up in yr front windows, take them to yr local squats/shops/venues/bars/libraries/community centres etc and ask to put them up. thanks & love!

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