Festival of Collective Liberation
We live in a world that requires certain lives to justify their existence, a world that treats bodies, species, and communities as problems to be managed or disappeared altogether. We are here because we refuse that world.
The same logic that cages animals, polices Black bodies, pathologises disability, and punishes fatness is one logic. We gather to name it, and to imagine, together, the world we are owed.
What would liberation look like if it included everyone?
This gathering brings together speakers, practitioners, and community members to explore what liberation means across different forms of identity, and embodiment.
We will examine how systems of power interlock, and how liberation in one area can support liberation in another.
Areas of exploration include:
Animals: Examining liberation beyond the human, including ethics of captivity, food systems, and interspecies justice.
Black Liberation: Exploring racial justice, structural inequality, historical memory, and the ongoing struggle for safety, dignity, and self-determination in the face of systemic racism.
Children: Exploring autonomy, care, consent, and the balance between protection and agency in childhood.
Disability: addressing access, infrastructure, dependence, and the redesign of environments to remove disabling barriers.
Fatness : Examining body autonomy, anti-fat bias, medical stigma, cultural norms of beauty and health, and the right of fat people to exist without surveillance or pathologisation.
Men: Interrogating masculinity, emotional constraint, and the ways patriarchy damages and diminishes men's lives too.
Queer & Trans communities: Reflecting on identity, normativity, chosen family, and freedom from compulsory social scripts.
Women: Discussing bodily autonomy, labour, safety, and structural inequality in social and economic systems.
This is a space for those who understand that our struggles are not separate. We are bound. We are each others freedom. Let's come together and dream of a world that belongs to all of us.