DIY History workshop – SM Dykes London
Offered as a workshop within the SM Dykes regular calendar. This event included an introduction to the project, with a particular focus on history gathering within the SM Dyke community and how stigma affects the lives of those who are part of the community, and what methods and tools we can use to document our own at-risk histories. There were discussions in our workshops on who might be documented, and how it feels to experience stigma due to a lack of understanding. Very lively debates took place, especially in terms of access to health care, and the lack of documentation of working class WLTI (women, lesbian, trans, intersex) people in the broader making of history.
Organiser
Jet Moon is a writer, performer, director and activist producing politically engaged creative work. Jet produces events, works and collaborations that push for change, re-evaluation and empowerment. Jet is the founder of the Resilient & Resisting Organisation.
Resilient & Resisting is a collaboration between groups and individuals, with artist/activist Jet Moon, produced with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arcola Participation. Fierce, intimate oral histories, collaborative stories, D.I.Y. research and interviews from people at the intersection of several kinds of marginalisation.
