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Without social spaces to find one another and become who we need to be, our health as LGBTQ+ people is put at risk. Our spaces at QUEERCIRCLE, we believe, enable us to cultivate our collective health and well-being through a range of programmes that we co-develop with our partners and community groups.
Queer creative health rejects normative understandings of health, acknowledging ‘how our health is intimately bound up with the health of others - near and far - in communities, social structures and institutions’. At QUEERCIRCLE, we aim to offer safer spaces for sharing and dealing with difficult feelings, such as grief and shame, as well as celebrate pride and joy.
QUEERCIRCLE developed the idea of ‘queering creative health’ through a zine devised by MJ Barker and a report written by Yasmin Jiang (University College London). Our findings align with broader health justice movements that see health not as an individual problem - remedied by medical institutions once we become sick - but as something that should be proactively embedded at structural and community levels.
The Queering Creative Health Network meets three times a year to share and discuss topics relating to health and well-being as they specifically relate to LGBTQ+ communities.
To find out more, contact Frances@queercircle.org