Terms like queer, heteronormativity, homonationalism, and pinkwashing are widely used, but where do they come from and what do they actually mean? How can these critical concepts help us to make sense of ourselves and the world around us? How might a queer approach shed light on ways that gender and sexuality intersect with class, race, patriarchy, disability and colonialism?

Join us to celebrate the launch of Mad Kin zine with an afternoon of poetry, talks and workshops. This zine is about the alternative kin we craft outside of psych and policing spaces to keep our communities safe. It houses calls to action from abolitionist and safe housing networks, disabled and queer artists, and groups resisting immigration raids. 

Filmed in Cambodia over the course of five years, Lotus Sports Club (72 mins) is an inspiring coming-of-age documentary about Leak, a teenage trans man who plays football in the under-21s women’s team of Kampong Chhnang, and Pa Vann, the coach and father-figure to Leak and other LGBTQ+ players on the team.

Território is focused on identity, memory and territory; exploring the complexities of being and belonging within a diaspora. These works also examine themes of displacement, cultural synthesis, and the search for home. As part of What Has No Space Is Everywhere, a selection of nine films from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela and the UK.

Movimento is dedicated to movement and bodies; showcasing dance and performance pieces that embody the dynamic nature of the queer Latinx diaspora. As part of What Has No Space Is Everywhere, a selection of nine films from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela and the UK. This programme will have filmmakers in attendance for a Q&A mediated by Dieter Deswarte.

This event examines the Ottoman Empire’s scramble to participate in late 19th century interimperial competition and neo-Ottomanism and its impact across Asia and Africa. Along with a performance lecture co-curated by archivist Êvar Hussayni, focusing on Kurdish genealogies, colonial violence in archives and their relationship with the trajectory of Kurdish feminisms and  identity. 

(Re)Framed Youth is a screening and discussion of two landmark LGBTQ+ films Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts (1982) & Reframed Youth (2013).

TGirlsonFilm presents a screening of "Hookers on Davie" (dir.Cole & Dale,1984). The only documentation of Davie Street, a red-light stroll in Vancouver, known in the 80s as the "prostitution capitol of Canada."