Sunday, March 2nd 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
Introduction
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
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.
I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Means: On The Importance of Specificity of Language and It's Role in Our Liberation // Skyriver
Are you still going around calling for a Revolution? Do you believe that an apocalypse is end of everything? Well I don't think those words mean what you think they mean. This talk will illustrate that many words that we have been taught to fear are our friends and many words that represent ideas that we venerate are holding us back. Come learn how tear this colonizer's language apart and make it work for us- once more, like we've done so many times before.
Protecting Your Data Online // Caroline
The U.S. is terrible with protecting our individual information. There are frequently data leaks and companies sell our info all the time. The result? Your first and last name, your recent addresses, your occupation, the names of your family members are all put out there for the world to see. I will walk through a free (albeit tedious) way to remove your information from the internets and also give general tips on how you can protect yourself as an online user.
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
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.