Fighting for Space, love and loss
PAST EVENT
Historically LGBTIQ people have fought for space because we had to, bringing the rights and places we needed into existence. How have we created, fought for and made space for our communities? What have we lost? As we often come to big cities as a place of safety, to find community, how are LGBTIQ people affected by or part of gentrification?
On the 28th of February 2019, we celebrated Queer Action past and present by taking up space in the Hackney Museum. What wasn’t allowed to be on display? What objects did individuals contribute and caption to tell a tale of Hackney Queerness?
We heard readings from the Resilient and Resisting project, on our complex community and how we fight for space: Tales of sex-working queers, squatter queers, kinky queers, queers who are so tired of racism in the scene, Crip queers, Transfabulous queers, pole dancing queers, and DJing queers, all celebrating what we’ve loved and what we’ve lost, what we’re still fighting for…
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.
The museum is conveniently situated in central Hackney next to the Town Hall Square. Hackney Museum is a local history museum located in the London Borough of Hackney. Amongst other aspects of the Hackney area, the museum explores the history of immigration.
