<nettime> Harm Reduction and Queer Care - Disruptive Fridays #6 - May 8

[Tatiana Bazzichelli <tbazz@disruptiv.biz>]

Disruptive Fridays #6 - May 8, 2020
Harm Reduction and Queer Care

Starting Friday 5pm Berlin time.

The sixth edition of Disruptive Fridays features a conversation with
Pedro Marum (XenoEntities Network, Mina, Suspension, PT/DE), Mariana
Nobre V. (Performer, choreographer, queer rave instigator, Emotional
CPR - eCPR, Rabbit Hole and Lecken collectives, PT/DE), Mariana Cunha
(Kosmicare, PT) and Rafi (Artist, Organizer, TS Raver, DE), moderated
by Nada Bakr (Disruption Network Lab EG/DE).

During this conversation we will discuss harm reduction within
queerfeminist self-organized communities that welcome queers, trans,
POC and neurodivergent people to discuss, test and learn about
psychoactive substances. For long they have operated with structures
that not only provide moments of revelry but also much-needed care and
acceptance for many, who often find in these communities their peers,
their kin, forms of coping and resistance. In the current times of
pandemic and isolation they are debating how to continue this work.

As the clubs and parties close, where does all this energy go now?
What happens to all the bottled-up anxieties and loneliness? What
happens to the people that struggle with addiction and, instead of
understanding, find prejudice and discrimination? Who looks after
those whose needs have always been overlooked or oppressed? What
happens now that governments have (yet again) failed to protect, and
these communities have become de-fragmented and even more precarious
under isolation? How can we foster collective digital support,
debates, talks and guidelines about harm reduction and emotional
support in self-isolation times?

With Pedro Marum, Mariana Cunha, Mariana Nobre V. and Rafi we will
speak about their ongoing projects and about “RAVELENGTH”, an
upcoming project in which they collaborate to generate accessible
tools for harm reduction, relief and empowerment within the
queerfeminist electronic music scene and raver communities. By
organizing online discussions, workshops and support groups in
collaboration with artists, healthcare professionals and local
community organizers, they call for a culture of solidarity across and
beyond European borders.

Speakers:

Pedro Marum (XenoEntities Network, Mina, Suspension, PT/DE) Marum
is one of the instigators of the collective party mina (Lisbon),
co-founder of the label and artist platform suspension, and founder
member of XenoEntities Network. mina and suspension have started a
collaboration with harm reduction NGO Kosmicare, organising talks
and exchange groups with the queer community, raising awareness and
providing access to tools and knowledge on harm reduction. In response
to the pandemic crisis, together with other collectives they initiated
Ravelength.

Mariana Nobre V. (Performer, choreographer, queer rave instigator,
Emotional CPR (eCPR), Rabbit Hole and Lecken collectives, PT/DE)
Emotional CPR is a practice based on values of mutual support and
interpersonal communication for addressing personal and community
moments of crisis and distress. Having its origins on a public
health education program developed in the field of mental health,
eCPR is now being integrated with somatic practices and informed by
queer principles of consent, inclusion, collective action, access
and solidarity. This work is being developed by a team of eCPR
practitioners and artists with extensive experience in queer activism,
movement research, queer nightlife production and harm reduction.

Mariana Cunha (Kosmicare, PT) Mariana works with Kosmicare, an
NGO that envisions a world where drugs are used with liberty and
wisdom. She studied pharmacological and neurosciences and has
been working in harm reduction since 2017. Currently, she runs a
permanent drug checking laboratory in Lisbon. Her interests include
psychopharmacology, raves, science fiction and everything in between.

Rafi (Artist, Organizer, TS Raver, DE) Rafi is an organiser and artist
based in Berlin. He organises with TS Raver, a queer nightlife project
that positions peer led harm reduction teams as anchors for critical
care.

Nada Bakr (Disruption Network Lab, EG/DE)
Nada Bakr is a curator, researcher and cultural manager based in Berlin.
She holds a Master of Arts (MA) in Media Arts Cultures from Aalborg
University. She works on different projects in Berlin and Cairo related
to visual arts, digital culture, art and activism, digital rights and
media art. Her work in the field of media art is developed through
research and practice on the intersection between art and technology.
Nada is the Managing Director and co-curator of Cairotronica - Cairo
Electronic and New Media Art festival, where she curates and manages the
biennial festival program. She works as project manager for the
conference and community programme and is a member of the Disruption
Network Lab e. V..
-- 
Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
http://disruptionlab.org
Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp



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