06/09/2026
Workshop alert!! Looking for more ways to connect and create during Pride Month? Join us on Wednesday, June 24th from 6-8 p.m. for a generative workshop with poet Toni Garcia-Butler, where we’ll pull inspiration from Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic” as we DIY our own bodies through poetry. Full description below ⬇️
🎟️ Tickets for this workshop are $20 each, and can be purchased through the link in our bio ().
Special shoutout to for hosting us in their space!! Can’t wait to spend the evening writing with you all 💞✍️
Workshop Description:
In “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”, Audre Lorde pulls from her experience as a Black le***an woman feminist as she speaks to the power of fully-present embodiment—a power that when channeled and combined with others, can be a catalyst for revolutionary change.
Poet Toni Garcia-Butler invites you to look at Lorde’s work through a gender-expansive lens. In choosing “the yes within ourselves”, pursuing truth and knowledge, and rejecting “the fear of feeling”, Transq***r people step into an autonomous way of being—rejecting their suffering and disrupting oppressive cultural norms.
In this generative workshop, participants will read and discuss [excerpts of*] Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic”, draw connections to poems from Garcia-Butler’s chapbook, DIY Body, and create their own poems of personal embodiment. We’ll expand upon eroticism as a sensory experience and capture the fullness of feeling in our writing. Open to all levels of experience.
