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QUEER SOCIAL – Creative Writing: Letters to your Ex with Nevo (Online)

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Have you ever just wanted to get out all of the bundled up anger you have toward your ex? 

Want to have a rant about an old flame but have already exhausted all your friend’s emotional capacity? 

Welcome to ‘letters to your ex’, we’re going to be writing (AND NOT SENDING) some letters to our exes and discussing some useful tactics for moving through feelings after a break-up.’

This event will be half social chats with a bunch of like minded queer people and half fun, educational and interactive workshop.

All workshops are taught by queers, for queers.


What will we cover?

In this workshop we will:

  • Compose a letter to an ex (but not send)
  • Learn some useful tips and tricks for moving through the grief of a break-up.
  • Enjoy a queer space with like minded humans 

What will I need

  • Just a pen and paper 

Accessibility

  • Closed Captions
  • Cheap Tix
  • Share the Love Free Tix (prioritised for First Nations, Trans & Poc Attendee)
  • Auslan Interpreted Upon Request 

    Who will be Facilitating? 

    Nevo Zisin (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, Jewish writer, performer, activist and public speaker based in Naarm/ Birraranga / Melbourne. They run workshops in schools and professional development trainings in workplaces around transgender identities. Author of award-winning Finding Nevo (2017), a memoir on gender transition and The Pronoun Lowdown (2021) a useful guidebook on all things related to pronouns.

    Their work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, Archer Magazine, Kindred – A Queer Australian Young Adult Anthology, SBS, Hack Live and The Morning Show amongst others.

    They are a mentor for The Pinnacle Foundation, one of Out for Australia’s 30 Under 30 for 2019, an ambassador for both Wear It Purple and the Victorian Pride Centre as well as a member of the Gender Euphoria cast – Australia’s largest all trans & gender diverse show on a main stage.

    delsi (she/her) is a proud queer femme lady, ex-highschool teacher turned LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Trainer, Director of the org Unicorns, Marriage Celebrant and Melbourne Manager of Laneway Learning.

    She loves to teach a range of Laneway Learning classes – from queer cross-stitch to LGBTQIA+ Inclusion and how to make eco-glitter bath bombs.

    She was named in the Top 50 Aus Outstanding LGBTI Leaders List in 2020.

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    More about accessibility 

    Other questions or accessibility requests? Just shoot an email to delsi at melbourne@lanewaylearning.com.