16-18h Writing Workshop: Writing from the Margins with Otter Lieffe
 
What could a strong, diverse - even utopic - resistance movement look like and how could we create it together? How do we counter the various oppressions we face and how do we build alternatives? How can speculative fiction amplify the voices of marginalised people?

Speculative fiction has a powerful history of imagining other possibilities. In this workshop, Otter Lieffe, author of Margins and Murmurations, will share some of her writing techniques and hold a space for some creative, speculative fiction writing. Otter will invite us to dive into our visions of resistance and utopia and to turn some of those images into writing.

No experience of fiction writing is necessary to participate. The safety and comfort of participants will be a first priority throughout. During the workshop, participants are invited to share their work in pairs or to the group but at no point will there be pressure to do so. There will be paper and pens available but if you prefer working on a laptop or other device, please bring it along with you.

This two hour workshop will be offered on a sliding scale from
5 to 30 CHF.

For questions or to reserve your place: otter.lieffe@gmail.com


After the workshop, Otter will be giving a book reading from her novels: https://www.facebook.com/events/2117190095163150 [www.facebook.com/events/2117190095163150/]
 
*About Otter Lieffe*

As a professional sex worker and working-class activist, Otter Lieffe brings nuance to the ethics of work, kink, sex and activism. In this, her second novel, she explores what it might mean to really create political change and asks who gets left behind in the process. She invites us to step up and take our place in the struggle, and bring our fabulous complexity with us to the front-lines.

This groundbreaking new story can be read alone or as a companion to Margins and Murmurations.

Read more about Otter and her books here:
www.otterlieffe.com
 

*the space*

sp!t - space for feminist matters and practices; with the feminist library frauen_bibliothek,
erlenstr. 44, 4058 basel
frauenbibliothek(ät/at)gmx(punkt/dot)ch

public transport: bus 30 stop mattenstrasse & erlenmatt; ca. 5 min. walk from badischer bahnhof

the room is smokefree and only accessible by 4 steps, entry door: 79cm wide, gender neutral toilet: door 69cm wide.


 

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