Saturday, January 11th from 1pm-4pm PST/4pm-7pm EST, Garden Talks will be giving space for ideas/dreams/rants that will light the digital space on fire! Below, check out the schedule of events and make sure to RSVP here! ASL will be provided, and further accessibility information can be found here.

Until next our avatars meet,

J Mase 🪻

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Tentative Schedule of Events

January 11th, 2025

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1pm PST: Section 1

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Slay the house boots mama: How RuPaul, white gays and mainstream tv mock Ballroom culture but don't support Black Trans Femmes and Women // Sun

Ballroom culture slang influences “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” which tends to get misrepresented, and the original meaning gets lost as it gets pushed out more into the mainstream. This talk looks at the importance of recognizing and acknowledging where these terms have come from.

Backrooms // Lani

It's about the backrooms.

Internalizing Self-Compassion via Actions // Ang

A brief overview of how to build self-compassion and grow self-trust.

10 min break

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2 pm PST: Section 2

Show Me Who You Are Inside // Mars

A collection of autobiographical poems and images about capacious love, loss, vulnerability, the concept of everlasting, and our place in the world.

How Algorithms Are Destroying Your Friendships // J Mase

Have you noticed communications with loved ones getting a little bit more spicy over the years? How has social media changed the way that we talk to folks we love, why is that important and how can we re-direct?

10 min break

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3pm PST: Section 3

One of the most biodiverse place on the earth and the plants talk! // Sun

How you are able to listen and talk with the plant kin? Discussion about the Appalachian Mountains and its many wonders. Experience a demonstration of plant sounds from a midi controller.

Pilates // Ze

Pilates (history, the method, the practice, etc.) and how it’s impacted the life of a professional hip-hop/break dancer.

Hadestown the Musical: Legend of Orpheus & Euridice — Sonoran Desert Bird Edition // Ru

Hadestown the Musical if it was CATS the Musical, and the cats were birds found in the Sonoran Desert.

Closing