QUEERING HEALING

Calling all those who have felt dissatisfied, neglected or oppressed by mainstream healing modalities; people who haven't felt whole in healing spaces and are hungry to foster something different.

"Queering Healing" is a relational seminar where we seek to do what we study. Each class will focus on a different aspect of healing: History & Memory Keeping, Relationality & Connection, Marginality & Portal-Making, and Reclaiming Imagination. Oriented to building relationships among participants, the class will culminate in a collectively developed DIY Field Guide to Queering Healing.

​This course is rooted in the belief that we have a responsibility to care for each other and create care separate from cisnormative, racist, and ableist systems. The only way out of collective suffering is through, and the only way through is together.
Thursdays, 3-5 PM PST; 6-8 PM EST
​Online on Zoom
120 minute sessions, 5 weeks
July 31st-August 28th, 2025
$125 - $375 Tuition
Select scholarships and solidarity rate discounts available upon request.

INSTRUCTORS

dash z is a disabled white trans abolitionist artist, educator, care worker, memory-keeper, and earthworker. they are dedicated to experiments in collectivity, reckoning, and co-creation. in infrastructures of care, they embrace the DIY, the anti-colonial, and the wild via cooperative housing projects, land trusts, alternative homemaking, mutual aid, peer counseling, pods, popular education, and anti-capitalist economies. as a part of healing justice, they work with others to resist incarceration, ableism, and empire in all forms. their schemes rely on archives, interspecies collaboration, intergenerational comrades, and working at the thresholds set by death, illness, and revolution.
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Jay Mimes is a lifelong teacher and learner who seeks to bridge the gaps between liminality and revolution. She is a Brooklyn native, Black queer trans femme, herbalist, political educator, culture worker, and digital strategist. She has over a decade of experience in nonprofit, corporate, and community-based spaces offering both strategic and deeply humanizing labor. They facilitate relational spaces, often "circles", that center collective needs, interpersonal tension, and healthy conflict-resolution. Jay approaches healing through a holistic and systems-based lens, understanding that people's identity, culture, geography, class, and positionality are subjective and worthy of recognition. Through compassionate communication, mindfulness, ancestral knowing, and liberatory embodiment praxis, she believes everyone holds the key to their own freedom and kernels for collective autonomy.
Image Credit : collage by dash & Jay, with source material from here