at the intersection of trauma and desire
Themed writing sessions every first Saturday of the month, 12-5pm
What you are hungry for? At the intersection of desire and trauma, hunger can take many forms. So many of us are trained to starve ourselves. We are starved for the food we most want to taste, for the creative expression we want to release, for the sexual and sensory experiences that sing in our bellies and hands.
Join us, pick up the pen, and share your fiercely hungry stories. These monthly circles will be themed, and exercises will lean toward that theme, though every writer is always invited to write whatever they are drawn to write.
Open to all survivors of sexual trauma; a al carte, each session is $150 (discounts available to those who register for a meal plan ); limited to 9 writers. Contact Jen with questions or to register.
2019 Fierce Hunger circle themes:
January 5: Fragmented and Whole
- Unfolding our understanding of wholeness and healing: When we say “writing ourselves whole,” we mean writing into all of our parts, our many selves, the places we feel can never come together again…
February 2: Claiming our Desire
- Desire takes so many forms – erotic, sensual, creative… by writing into our desire, we discover, we name, we risk allowing ourselves to want…
March 2: Telling it Slant
- Sometimes we have to approach our tenderest stories from another angle…
(No meeting in April)
May 4: Famished
- What happens when we who are trained to starve ourselves give name to our cravings and begin to seek them out?…
June 1: Queering our Survival
- Nothing about our survival is on the straight and narrow…
July 6: We Do Not Have to Be Good
- We are the”Wild Geese” from Mary Oliver’s poem; when we who were trained to be good girls (no matter our gender) – quiet, obedient, keeping the secrets of others – begin to raise our voices, the world shifts on its axis, and we feel our wings unfurl…
(No meeting in August)
September 7: Embodied Words
- Writing can be a way to gently re-engage with our bodies, from which many of us have worked for years, even decades, to separate ourselves…
October 5: Writing Our Rage
- Many of us were trained away from our anger, taught to turn it in on ourselves; our rage is a powerful energetic force, and can drive extraordinary writing…
November 2: Intersections of our Survival
- None of us are survivors of sexual violence only – we are also gendered, raced, variously abled, of different means, differently educated… and these aspects of ourselves come together and inform the way we live in the aftermath of our trauma…
December 7: Ceremonies & Gratitudes
- How do we honor all that we have been through, the many ways strategies we have used to survive? How do we show gratitude to the tools that no longer serve us (though they got us to where we are)? How do we write gratitude to these bodies, the genius of our resistance, our communities, all those who give us permission to survive?…
Meal Plans!
Meal plans let you eat more for less!
breakfast: 3 sessions for $350 (a $100 discount)
brunch: 6 sessions for $650 (a $250 discount)
feast: all 10 sessions for $1000 (a $500 discount)
Join us for one or a few or all of these opportunities to write into, honor, grieve, celebrate, maybe even sate, the fierce hungers we carry as survivors…
