Event

2009 Bent Mentor Workshop

We are committed to parity/majority POC attendance to the workshop. To that end there is a reduced ticket price for POC.

Secrets, stories, scars, survival: Writing your dirty laundry, transforming violence and living to tell.

Queer and trans people have a lot of fabulous stories- love affairs, survival stories, running away at 14, being the only queer Muslim femme in smalltown Pennsylvania. And most of our most important stories are community secrets, dirty laundry, and the stories our folks or lovers whisper then say theyll kill us if we tell. In this workshop, youll have the chance to write your hardest, dishiest, most important stories. Well talk about issues of disclosure and safety (ie, how to do all this without your friends and family killing you,) read and listen to amazing work by queer and trans writers, with a focus on queer writers of color, whove walked this road, do some writing and share it, and talk the importance of storytelling as a way of documenting community history and transforming violence and trauma in our lives.