Workshops
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Trans Joy: A Process Workshop Series for Trans, Nonbinary, & Gender-Nonconforming Folks
What brings you joy? What gets your heart racing, your inner light shining, your curiosities excited? Have you ever felt that? Do you let yourself?
Do you wish you could integrate joy into your life? And not just as an afterthought or an occasional self-care exercise, but as a consistent everyday practice?
It’s time to make your joy the center of your life. You deserve it. Yes, you!
This process workshop series is designed to make room for our joys, our triumphs, our successes, and our wildest dreams. As trans folks, most of our lives are taken from us through social, emotional, and political violence, and our joy gets lost in the hustle of everyday survival. This workshop will give you that sacred space to find and cherish your moments of pure bliss alongside fellow trans people.
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Embracing Multitudes: A Process Workshop for Queer/Trans Iranians
Iranian. American. Queer. Trans. & Scared. I grew up thinking I was impossible. But after years of processing and unlearning, I've learned important tools for moving through that self-hatred. Not only do I exist, but I am a miracle worthy of love and respect. I never ever even dreamed I could come to a place where I felt this.
This series is specifically designed to make space for our unique experiences at the intersection of queer/trans Iranian diasporic life. Each session will offer a combined processual approach, a mixture of critical race/queer theory and personal reflection exercises to make room for our complex identities.
Allow the parts of you that have been taught to hide the opportunity to move around, release, and open up. This communal space will make room for the untold, the unspeakable, and the terrifying, in hopes of letting some of that weight go.
I want you to finally feel seen.
I want you to finally feel heard.
I want you to finally feel a sense of community.
“This workshop was as transformative as it was healing. I felt true to myself, and able to question that truth, as I moved through and with trans community that put work into seeing and holding themselves as radical humans, capable of the impossible.”
— Trans Joy Workshop Participant
“This series was better than any therapy I’ve done before. I’ll be taking each of their workshops after this”
— Trans Joy Workshop Participant
“I have always felt equally alienated in Iranian spaces as well as queer spaces. I always felt belonging had to come with silencing and sacrificing a part of myself. For the first time in my life, I didn’t feel this way during our weekly sessions.”
— QT Iranian Workshop Participant
“This experience felt like a rebirth.”
— Trans Joy Workshop Participant
“I didn’t know signing myself up for this workshop would clarify so much in my life… The amount of work I did in this series was enough to make me happy for eternity.”
— QT Iranian Workshop Participant
“Trans Joy has been a radical shift in the way I approach joy and in the ways I can offer joy. Being a part of a space that centers this has been revolutionary.”
— Trans Joy Workshop Participant
“Every trans person deserves this space to self-actualize and embrace the impossibility of finding joy in a transphobic world. We urgently need our collective joy, now. We can’t wait.”
— Trans Joy Workshop Participant
