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We're live!
Modelled after @dramatic-opening-shot's @cold-boys-fandom-hub, the amazing info hub and archive for The Terror, Conclave Central is now live and looking for contributions especially in the resources and interviews area. Of course, if you have something for the other sections that should go on the page, please do get in touch! You can submit or ask here, or email the email address on the site's contact page.
Trans* Conclave Week Warmup Day 3: Clothes | Vestments
Theme #3 in our trans* & inter* Conclave event is clothes and vestments!
Like it or not, clothes are often gendered in our societies. But this also means that dressing in a style that feels affirming for your gender identity, or in clothes that help you feel comfortable/attractive/sexy/beautiful/positive in some way can be a really effective way of looking after yourself and expressing yourself and your identity.
On the flipside, people sometimes have to wear clothes that they don't feel so good in, be that because of societal expectations or a dresscode at work or because they don't have the means or the courage to obtain nicer clothes for themselves.
Liturgical vestments are imbued with symbolism and meaning, but everyday items of clothing can also carry significance and symbolism for a character in a myria of ways. This prompt is all about exploring the ways characters related to clothing in ways that are positive, negative, and all shades of complex in between.
Let's play dress-up!
Trans* & Inter* Conclave Week Warm-Up Day 4: Between
The prompts for Day 4 are considered with the concept of "between" and the concept of intersexuality as one manifestation of that.
What's it like being between the categories the world has determined are salient? Whether it's intersexuality, or gender identities that are between or beyond the binary concepts of man and woman or cis and trans, there are many ways to be that are in some way "between". Vincent Benítez, the intersex character in Conclave, famously says that he knows what it is to exist "between the world's certainties". We can even apply this concept to relationships—what is it like to have a relationship with someone, or several someones, that is between or beyond the world's certainties of platonic vs. romantic, or sexual vs. non-sexual?
Day 4 is about exploring the spaces between, about celebrating messiness and complicated people, places, and things that evade or actively resist classification. Let's dig in and look at what is "between".
Trans* Conclave Week Warmup Day 1: Bodies
Just over a month to go until our event for trans* and inter* creators opens! Are you excited? Well, you should be.
In this series of posts, we'll delve deeper into the seven days and the prompts that come with them. First up is Day 1, which is broadly themed around bodies.
The prompts for this day are:
Your Body Is Good: A Resurrection Sermon by Fr. Shannon Kearns
A sermon by Shannon Kearns, the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood (not the Roman Catholic Church).
“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made”
A prompt all about bodies. Let’s talk about the ways in which our characters relate to their and/or others' bodies.
As trans* and inter* people, we often have complex relationships with our bodies. Let's have a little look at that!
There are, of course, the negative experiences of learning late in life that you have an intersex condition, that maybe you had "corrective" surgery (also known as intersex genital mutilation or IGM); going through "the wrong puberty" as a trans person; experiencing changes from hormone treatment that we feel ambivalent or negative towards; scars from surgeries or stretch marks from weight gain and loss that we don't like; not matching what men or women "should" look like... the list goes on.
But there is also joy. Feeling "right" when you take blockers or hormones or get surgery. Passing when you're not trying. Relearning your body's responses to being touched in certain ways. Feeling proud of scars and stretch marks as records of one's personal history. Being intimate with someone who appreciates your body for what it is.
No two trans* or inter* people are the same, so it stands to reason that we all have different experiences with relating to our own bodies and those of other people. Those of us who like putting our trans* and/or inter* blorbos in intimate situations will often draw on their real-life experiences or those of other people with similar issues. There's no right or wrong way for a character to feel about their body! This prompt is really all about exploring ways they and other people relate to everything to do with bodies and corporeality.
There are two resources we want to highlight today:
The first is Intersex Wiki, a wiki all about intersex conditions, set up by @ipso-faculty and maintained by zer and other awesome intersex people.
The second is r/TransSurgeriesWiki, a collection of links to more resources that show all kinds of trans bodies and trans hormone treatment and surgery progress photos and results.
We're looking forward to everyone's works and creator highlights posts! If you would like us to feature you and/or your work for Trans Conclave Week, please send us an ask or submission or add your work to our AO3 collection (see the Rules for how to do either of those anonymously).
