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  • WHO IS A QUEER CARER?

  • Our Who is a Queer Carer? programme explores how queerness and care overlap, also offering tangible skills, techniques and tools...
    Film still from 'Ted & Noel', 2023. Directed by Julia Alcame

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

     

    Jules McGee-Russell hosts a monthly online forum for LGBTQ+ carers, 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 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 groups 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 2024. We are excited to look ahead to a new programme of events in 2025.

     

    Subscribe to our monthly Queer Carers newsletter by completing this online form. 

  • 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. 

     

    Jules is keen to open-up our focus in 2025 towards queer caring futures’, using MJ Barker’s ideas about care as a kicking-off point for discussion and shared envisioning.

  • Coming Up

    • How and what is queer care for you (online), FEB 27 | 7 - 8.30 PM

      How and what is queer care for you (online)

      FEB 27 | 7 - 8.30 PM

      Jules Mc Gee Russell facilitates a reading of the MJ Barker’s zine, focussing on the pages exploring queer care. How is this different from mainstream care, and what can we do to develop our own alternative models?

    • Imagining queer caring futures (online), MAR 27 | 7 - 8.30 PM

      Imagining queer caring futures (online)

      MAR 27 | 7 - 8.30 PM

      Jules develops the theme of imagining caring futures to invite you to draw, write and imagine different ways of caring. What have been your good and bad experiences of care and what alternatives have you been part of or enjoyed? What would be your vision of caring future?

    • ROLE-PLAYING CARE, an Interview with Amber Williams (ONLINE), APR 24 | 7 - 8.30 PM

      ROLE-PLAYING CARE, an Interview with Amber Williams (ONLINE)

      APR 24 | 7 - 8.30 PM

      This online session will have an interview and Q&A with carer, theatre-maker, and puppeteer Amber Williams. There will also be a short showcase exercise where we can preview the magic of her work!

    • ROLE PLAYING CARE, an in-person puppet workshop, APR 26, 2025 | 2 - 4 PM

      ROLE PLAYING CARE, an in-person puppet workshop

      APR 26, 2025 | 2 - 4 PM

      Explore the caring roles we take up in our lives through a playful creative puppetry workshop led by theatre-maker and director, Amber Sophia Williams. Together we will develop narratives and characters that speak to our experiences of caring for others, both light and dark.

  • 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.

     
  • RESOURCES

    • The Care Manifesto

      The Care Manifesto

      The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors want to reimagine the role of care in our everyday lives, making it the organising principle in every dimension and at every scale of life.

    • Not so many queer carers but lots of queers who care

      Not so many queer carers but lots of queers who care

      Frances Williams takes stock of QUEERCIRCLE's programme which aims at providing space for queer carers on and offline.

    • LGBT+ Carers: is there a different story to tell?

      LGBT+ Carers: is there a different story to tell?

      Tony Collins-Moore, carers academy manager at Carers Centre Tower Hamlets, shares his experience of being an unpaid carer and a member of the LGBT+ community.

 

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