ResilientandResisting

An oral history and collaborative storytelling project.

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Come and listen to stories of survival and agency, focusing on the theme of violence against women and girls. The readings focus on first hand accounts which show how, through individual or group resilience, people have found ways to speak up, name experiences, organise and survive. This event is Trans and Sex Worker inclusive. The stories presented are from longer pieces collected as part of Resilient and Resisting, an oral history and collaborative storytelling project. The event is supported by Hackney Council’s 16 days of action against gender based violence, part of the UN's campaign to help eliminate violence against women and girls. This years campaign has the theme #HearMeToo, linking to movements which feature the voices of the voices of survivors and activists. This is a FREE event.

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Resilient and Resisiting: Complex stories of overlapping struggles that often go untold, or when others write about us, are sensationalised or sanitised. https://resilientandresisting.org/projects/ Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arcola Participation.

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INDULGING MY PAPER FETISH - and Looking forward to the OPEN DAY AT THE LEATHER ARCHIVE, tomorrow. Browse historical gems from the collection, hear readings from Resilient and Resisting, visit the photo booth. FREE ZINES. 

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Bishopsgate Institute is home to the UK Leather Archive, a national collection documenting the history and heritage of the Gay/Bi leather, rubber and fetish communities, and is committed to increasing holdings relating to wider kink and fetish history in the UK. At this event, in collaboration with Resilient and Resisting, an oral history and collaborative story telling project, we invite you to drop in to explore the collection of magazines, pamphlets, posters, ephemera, t-shirts and artefacts from these collections. There will be readings which focus on stories relevant to the kink community, an opportunity to record your own oral history, and to hear short talks about the archives on display. We would love to provide a home to your story/archive and would be delighted to accept any material to add to the fetish archives on the day. This could be ephemera, magazines, books, photos, video, audio, artefacts, documents…anything that you feel could help tell the story of the kink and fetish community in the UK for future generations. Material can also be scanned/copied on the day, so you can keep the original if preferred. Resilient & Resisting https://resilientandresisting.org/, is a collaboration between groups and individuals, with artist/activist Jet Moon, produced with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arcola Participation. Fierce, intimate oral histories, collaborative stories, D.I.Y. research and interviews from people at the intersection of several kinds of marginalisation

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Read stories of resistance https://resilientandresisting.org/