Glimpses: The Bed as a Meeting Place
Taking as our starting point the disabled knowledge that beds can be both places of caring, collective worldbuilding and of deep isolation, we will transform the multicoloured-sunlit Meeting House into a nest where attendees will be welcomed into collective beds.
As a physical framework centring the-body-in-bed, this starting place will facilitate the entry into discussion about bed stories: stories told by the facilitators and attendees about what it’s like to spend a lot of time in bed. We will reflect together about why sharing these stories in community is an act of care in and of itself.
In a world that imagines airborne illnesses as benign, collectively committing to wearing FFP2 (or better) respirators and having tested negative for COVID on a LFT are grief tending rituals.
Bring your own mask, or take one of ours on the door – and if you don’t have access to a LFT, please arrive slightly early as they take 15 minutes to develop.
This workshop will bring together the work of Gravy Winter of local queer disabled mutual aid network the Brighton Care Collective, and the academic research done by Sarah Boira from the Faculty of Media, Arts & Humanities.