Free but ticketed event! “There is not sex in the USSR!” – so goes the infamous cliché uttered by a soviet participant of the 1986 Boston-Leningrad Women’s TV Bridge. Obviously, sex there was. But, soviet culture maintained a rigid prohibition against public expressions of sexuality for a good 60 years. The advent of Mikhail …
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Free but ticketed event! A conversation about when LGBTQI+ community fails to accommodate for and include queers of colour and what can be done to change this. Jade and Eve will discuss specific examples where LGBT community fails POC/BAME members and examine the portrayal of Black bodies and critique these representations through a queer lens. …
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QTI stands in solidarity with protestors across the world who are fighting against police violence, racism, and injustice. As these statements have been numerous, we have a few points to emphasise: To support protestors across the US and their communities, donate to an organisation listed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CjZMORRVuv-I-qo4B0YfmOTqIOa3GUS207t5iuLZmyA/ Today is the first day of Pride: Stonewall was …
Free but ticketed event! In recent years it has become more and more common to portray surrogacy as an issue of LGBTQ rights. Any critique raised is labelled as "homophobic" or "anti-gay" and treated as an attempt to further discriminate against LGBTQ people. Most critical discussions revolve around the exploitation of mainly disenfranchised women of …
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Here is the edited recorded video from the online live session we had and here is what you need to make the olive balls:24 Olive balls24 Chilli stuffed olives (or olives marinated in a spicy sauce)100- 150g vegan cheese2 tbsp vegan butter150 ml flour1-2 tbsp water50g sesame seedsYou will need an oven for baking the …
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This is a [super] simplified version of Buddha's Delight (Cantonese: 羅漢齋 Lo Hon Jai) that Eva made using ingredients in her larder. It's a very flexible dish! You can add whatever vegetables you have. Its original name means it contains 18 ingredients (referring to the 18 Buddhist monks of some Buddhist tale/stories). Watch this video …
The egg of my genders layspread on the matvacant and barerunny like hunnywith a scent of wet hair The whites of my eyeattempt to expandThrough the mucky placewhere dirt accumulatesimprinting dust bunnies across my face My yolk yellow formsees no genderYet here I am in a milky way existencewith conforms and social normsthat cage in …
Miriam shares her notes from QTI Coalition of Colour's event on 19th February 2020 which was a collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Human Global Movement at Cambridge University. PANEL DISCUSSION Chair of panel: Debbie- a local journalist for the Cambridge news. Debbie started off the discussion by introducing the panellists and explaining …
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I've fumbled through writing over the years to the point of frustration, finally putting down the pen and choosing to read the words of others. At the QTI queer qandī festival in June I decided to try once more and signed up for the writing workshop taught by Aude and wrote about my identity. I …
Elmira and Yu-Chen created a video for the 2019 Queer Asia's Summer Programme. Their theme questions what it means to be inhabitants of "Queer Asia", and what it takes to even be able to discuss it.
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