QUEER FOLX FREE

QUEER FOLX FREE

If you are a queer person looking for a place to study where you can be free to be every part of you, to be as out and as proud as you please, where you just want to feel normal, then Sweden might just be the place for you.Īs a queer person traveling in the world, considering our safety is often at the top of our to-do lists when planning our itineraries.

Because in Sweden you’re just another person loving another person. You don’t get prolonged stares or uncomfortable questions. But people don’t treat you any differently. So normal that you even begin to feel like you are just another hetero walking down the road, hand-in-hand with your hetero partner- but you’re not, you’re a queer person walking hand-in-hand with your queer partner, and that’s totally normal. Previous work can be found in The Manifest-Station, WirehouseCo, The Wheel, The Character Project, and other publications.For me*, I have found that being queer in Sweden is rather normal. She is currently at work on a new collection, The Queer Joy Project, which will comprise of essays, poetry, personal narrative, and multimedia live performance. They received a creative writing fellowship from the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, and her collection, Mosaic, was one of the top entries for the Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award. She makes art with Free Street Theater, About Face Theatre, and other Chicago-based organizations.

They are a proud company member of 2nd Story and the Co-Director of Operations and President of the Board of Women of the Now, a womxn-run film collective. Are you interested in participating? Reach out.Īimy Tien (she/they) is a Colorado transplant who fell into storytelling due to a combination of an irrational childhood fear of lions, a Val Kilmer film, and an overactive imagination. Now a Chicago-based performer, writer, teaching artist, and producer, Aimy focuses on bringing the stories of people of color and marginalized groups to the page, stage, and screen. The WorkĪt present, Aimy is interviewing subjects around the world and working on the first component of the project: The Collection. But most importantly, this work is for queer folx, a love letter to the lives that never got better, the lives that did, and the lives that are still finding their way. Rooted in a framework of abundance and pleasure, this project is for allies, for the curious, and for those reluctant in the face of social change. We deserve to not just feel joy, but to share the infinite ways we have experienced it. We deserve narrative plentitude-so many stories that no single story or person has to serve as representative for the whole.

We deserve to hear more stories than we have been told. Through interviews with LGBTQIA+ subjects around the world and archival research, creator Aimy Tien reminds us not only of the world we are trying to build, but the community and happiness people find, even in the margins. LGBTQIA+ folx are not a monolith. The Queer Joy Project is a a multimedia project that celebrates other queer stories: daily lived experiences, moments of happiness and serenity - each a form of resistance against today’s political climate. Even now, with more diverse stories in media, happy endings are few and far between. So often stories of the LGBTQ+ experience center on coming out, tragedy, physical injury, or the trauma of being forced to comply with heteronormativity.

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