The Personal is Political: Queer Community Action Research

Have you ever wondered how your personal story is part of a collective experience shared by others? Sharing stories is not just a therapeutic exercise! It builds political consciousness and solidarity, laying the ground for community action research.

In this workshop we think about a “puzzling moment” from our life, working through group exercises to place our story in a social and political context. We learn to conduct autoethnography: a form of qualitative research that takes our own experience as a starting point. We will self-publish our stories in the form of DIY zines, using our magical craft lab fully equipped with a typewriter, instant camera, Risograph printer, and more!

This workshop is part of a series called Queer Action Research: Nothing About Us Without Us! Working with artists, academics, and activists, we learn community action research methods such as interviews, ethnography, surveys, documenting the issues that affect us most. We self-publish our research in the form of DIY zines, which have long been a mode of radical organising and consciousness-raising.