• WHO IS A QUEER CARER?
  • Our Who is a Queer Carer? programme explores how queerness and care overlap in any number of ways, also offering...

    Our Who is a Queer Carer? programme explores how queerness and care overlap in any number of ways, also offering tangible skills, techniques and tools for people to better cope with their caring responsibilities in daily life. 

     

    There is a dedicated monthly online forum for LGBTQ+ carers (curated and hosted by Jules McGee-Russell), alongside occasional film screenings (documentaries such as Ted and Noel) and hands-on workshops at QUEERCIRCLE too (Daniel Regan’s exploration of ‘breaking points’).

     

    QUEERCIRCLE has worked with a series of local partners to pilot this programme including a the Carer’s Centre Tower Hamlets and Greenwich Carer’s Centre as well as national bodies specialising in mental health (Safely Held Spaces), cancer care (OutPatients) and focussing on LGBTQ+ elders (Tonic Housing, SAGE). 

     

    We learnt a lot of answers to the question Who is a Queer Carer? as you can read in the blog (below) that we wrote as part of Carers Week in June 2023. We are excited to look ahead to a new programme of events in 2025, working with puppeteers and theatre makers, amongst others, to host a range of events in 2025.  

  • MONTHLY ONLINE FORUMS
  • ‘I really needed it and benefited so much. The fact it was online meant I was able to attend as...

    ‘I really needed it and benefited so much. The fact it was online meant I was able to attend as I don't live in London. I appreciated the thought that went into making a session which worked online’ - online forum participant

     

    Jules McGee-Russell curates and hosts monthly online forums for carers which touch on varied topics - from how to ‘support someone through gender affirming surgery’ to how to ‘ground through nature’ or ‘doodle’ for well-being. 

    We are keen to open-up our focus beyond personal care in 2025, leaning into the community networks that sit outside of institutions or welfare systems. Some of the directions we are considering exploring involve talking to people involved in drug and alcohol harm reduction programmes as well as enlisting those involved in disability justice movements. 

  • Jules McGee-Russell

    Jules McGee-Russell

    Jules McGee-Russell (they/them) is a creative facilitator, family carer, and poet based in West Sussex. They make creative and reflective community workshops for carers and queer people. They have facilitated and supported workshops for Queercircle, Queer Youth Art Collective, and Carers Support West Sussex. They completed youth work training with Gendered Intelligence, and a mindfulness course through Carers Support West Sussex. When not working as a library assistant, you can find them reading piles of fantasy books or combing the beach for sea glass.

     

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