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Notes from the first gathering and first farewell to spring: June 18, 2023.

Aug 11, 2023

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the 4 images of the QTC logo (landscape, chair, dandelion, light) are the background to 4 quotes from the first QTC gathering. on the landscape, CENTER: “She had freckles, I never knew that.” —Derrais Carter. on the chair: “Maybe I simply want to be recognized as a body that needs help in my family.” —Vivian L. Huang. on the dandelion: “She was the most impossible thing I could ever be.” —JR Mahung. on the light: “We hold each other. I say, I am going to die. I say, You are going to die. I say, All we have is this moment.” —Joseph Hirsh.the 4 images of the QTC logo (landscape, chair, dandelion, light) are the background to 4 quotes from the first QTC gathering. on the landscape, CENTER: “She had freckles, I never knew that.” —Derrais Carter. on the chair: “Maybe I simply want to be recognized as a body that needs help in my family.” —Vivian L. Huang. on the dandelion: “She was the most impossible thing I could ever be.” —JR Mahung. on the light: “We hold each other. I say, I am going to die. I say, You are going to die. I say, All we have is this moment.” —Joseph Hirsh.
the 4 images of the QTC logo (landscape, chair, dandelion, light) are the background to 4 quotes from the first QTC gathering. on the landscape, CENTER: “She had freckles, I never knew that.” —Derrais Carter. on the chair: “Maybe I simply want to be recognized as a body that needs help in my family.” —Vivian L. Huang. on the dandelion: “She was the most impossible thing I could ever be.” —JR Mahung. on the light: “We hold each other. I say, I am going to die. I say, You are going to die. I say, All we have is this moment.” —Joseph Hirsh.the 4 images of the QTC logo (landscape, chair, dandelion, light) are the background to 4 quotes from the first QTC gathering. on the landscape, CENTER: “She had freckles, I never knew that.” —Derrais Carter. on the chair: “Maybe I simply want to be recognized as a body that needs help in my family.” —Vivian L. Huang. on the dandelion: “She was the most impossible thing I could ever be.” —JR Mahung. on the light: “We hold each other. I say, I am going to die. I say, You are going to die. I say, All we have is this moment.” —Joseph Hirsh.

More than a year in the making, the first seasonal gathering of Communion: Queer + Trans Memorial + Mourning took place on June 18, 2023. We had the tender honor of hearing from:

Derrais Carter (all) spoke on Black archival work. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist with roots in Kansas City, and the author of Black Revelry: In Honor of ‘The Sugar Shack’.

Vivian L. Huang (she, they) spoke on second generation Asian American grief and nonreproductive waste. They are an Oakland-based scholar, performer, and author of Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability.

JR Mahung (she/they) spoke on soccer, grief, and gender transition. She is a Garifuna poet and educator from the South Side of Chicago, now based in Boston where she lives with her cat Frank Ocean.

Joseph Hirsh (he/him) spoke on love and mortality meditation. He is an Austin-based topologist, body builder, and student of Byron Katie.

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Many thanks to visual artist J. Marshall Smith. Join us for the next virtual gathering on September 17, 2023 as we say goodbye to summer.

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