Writing Against Forgetting: queer resistance to discrimination and violence

Writing Against Forgetting is a one-day writing workshop for members of the LGBTIQ community, running at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on Saturday 24 October. It's led by Jhonnathan Velásquez and Julio Díaz Calderón, and it's run as part of the Oxford Cultural Programme.

The session is framed by the DPhil research of Emma Pritchard, whose fieldwork in Colombia looks at how LGBTIQ+ communities use storytelling to respond to experiences of violence and discrimination, particularly in the aftermath of conflict. From there, the workshop brings together artists and communities from the UK, Colombia and Mexico around lived experiences of love, identity, discrimination, joy and belonging.

It sits alongside a wider programme of work at the Schwarzman Centre, which brings together seven humanities faculties and research institutes with libraries, collections, exhibitions, cinema, music, theatre and performance, and houses the purpose-built Sohmen Concert Hall.

The workshop runs from 10.00am to 5.00pm in Room 00.056 at the Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG. It's free to attend, but places are limited to 25 participants and you'll need to book your spot in advance.