The RELATIVELY QUEER Project offers an interactive network of strategies for recovering and narrativizing concealed traces of trans* and queer history in families of origin. Prompts, resources, and reflective exercises are shared in a generative workshop setting to engage (gender)queer people from a diverse range of backgrounds in reciprocal exchanges of knowledge, fixations, reflections, and creative play. Cohering around themes of (Re)Situating, Archiving, and Imagining, consciously non-hierarchical techniques scaffold our cumulative engagement with occluded elements of our family histories and seed an evolving virtual community to nourish and sustain this reparative work.

RELATIVELY QUEER surveys developing practices from variously marginalized practitioners in the domains of archive-making (Saidiya Hartman, C. Riley Snorton, Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, Erica Rivera, SJ Norman), creative writing (Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Tomara Garrod, T. Fleischmann, Lola Olufemi, Elissa Washuta), and collective trauma and accountability (Breeshia Wade, Patrisse Cullors, Hil Malatino) in conversation with methodological perspectives from queer and trans autoethnography (Tony E. Adams, Ruth Pearce), queer and trans hi(r)storiography (Ann Cvetkovich, Jules Gill-Peterson), and queer and trans temporalities (Jack Halberstam, Elizabeth Freeman).

RELATIVELY QUEER invites participants to engage ethically and imaginatively with that which has gone undocumented, or been deliberately rendered irrecoverable, in the sanctioned history of a given family of origin. In doing so, we create incantatory and reparative archives through this highly personal research, supporting each other with a mutually-affirming, permission-giving, and care-infused community ecosystem.

With Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston and Erica Rivera.

To join our next cohort or to discuss local archive partnerships, email relativelyqueer@gmail.com.

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Started as a VAULT Creative Arts Residency at The Glitch in early 2023, our flagship event Pages & Pints is a monthly queer- and neurodivergent-prioritizing casual workshop for theatre makers in London to share work in early stages within a supportive and accessible community. Playwrights may opt to have pages read by attendees, brainstorm a brand new project, or join to help read, listen, share feedback, and find new collaborators.

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