Workshop 1 from 11.15am - 12.15pm
The People's Bodily Autonomy Act: A Zine Workshop on State Control & Bodily Autonomy
This rapid-response zine lab confronts the state’s necropolitical control over marginalized bodies. We will draw explicit lines between the historical policing of Black wombs, the criminalization of transness, and the weaponization of reproductive health in ongoing genocides, such as in Palestine. Moving beyond discussion, this session is a direct action. Participants will collaboratively draft and assemble "The People's Bodily Autonomy Act"—a collective manifesto that demands the right to safe birth, gender self-determination, the right to mourn, and global solidarity. Using collage, text, and radical imagination, we will create a powerful artifact of refusal and world-building. This workshop is for anyone ready to connect embodied struggles and create a tangible vision for a future where all bodily autonomy is sacred.
Safia Shaikh (she/her) is a community organiser and cultural worker from East London, armed with an anthropological lens and a dedication to radical creative practice. Her work is a deliberate intervention, exposing the architectures of state violence while facilitating communities to build powerful counter-narratives. Through zines, agitprop workshops, and public art, she creates spaces for political education where marginalised people can process collective trauma, imagine queer and feminist futures, and organise for material liberation. She believes in repurposing creative tools to not only critique the world but to prefigure and build the foundation for the world as it must be.
Workshop 2 from 12.20pm - 1.20pm
Sculpting Bodily Autonomy
In this sculpture-based workshop, participants will use clay, weaving, beading, and natural materials to create sacred, three-dimensional symbols that embody their personal visions of reproductive justice and bodily autonomy. Through guided prompts, participants will translate their reflections on what bodily autonomy means for them into sculptural objects. combining form, texture, and embellishment to carry meaning. Each piece becomes a personal emblem of freedom, care, and resilience. At the close of the workshop, we will bring these sculptures together to form a collective installation that holds our shared stories of kinship, resistance, and strength.
Tireni Adeniji (@tireni.art) is a painter and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores African cultural heritage, identity, and liberation. Blending painting with craft, her practice honours ancestral memory while reimagining future forms of care and selfhood. Through her work, she investigates the complexities of reality and cultural dynamics, challenging viewers to consider new perspectives. Tireni’s artistic practice deliberately evokes nuanced conversations about representation and lived experience in contemporary society.
Workshop 3 from 1.50pm - 2.50pm
Reproductive Joy: Painting Pleasure, Power, and Possibility
What does joy, pleasure, freedom, or care look like when we reclaim our bodies and futures?
In a world where reproductive justice is so often framed through struggle, control, and survival, this workshop invites you to flip the script: to paint from joy, pleasure, and desire. What does bodily autonomy feel like? What would a world built on care and collective thriving look like?
Through intuitive, emotion-led painting, we’ll explore our inner landscapes of freedom, home, and self-determination. Guided by prompts and optional sensory warm-ups, you’ll create one or more paintings that express not just resistance, but vision. Think of it as reproductive justice as an act of imagination. It's about dreaming, feeling, and envisioning. This is a space to experiment, reflect, and create with joy. All materials are provided, just bring yourself and an open mind!
Soraya Saber (@sorayasaberart) is a self-taught portrait artist from East London. Her works, created with oil and acrylic, explore the intersections of identity, culture, and emotion. Using a bold approach to colour and a focus on realism, Soraya creates pieces that are visually compelling and emotionally resonant. Her portraits prioritise human stories, conveyed through piercing gazes, dynamic composition, and layered textures. Soraya often shifts between vibrant tones and more muted palettes to express a range of emotional states. Her practice is a casual yet intentional exploration of personal and collective narratives, aiming to create work that invites reflection, sparks dialogue, and celebrates individuality.
Workshop 4 from 2.55pm - 3.55pm
Mapping Belonging: Reimagining Reproductive Justice as Collective Care
This workshop invites participants to collectively explore what reproductive justice might feel like when reimagined through the lens of belonging and care. Working together on a large shared surface, participants will use mapping, sketching, and painting to trace the visible and invisible borders that shape their lives - from the physical and political to the intimate and embodied. Through colour, gesture, and mark-making, these boundaries will be dissolved, redrawn, or transformed, opening space to imagine new geographies of justice.
The process is playful and intuitive, centring emotional honesty and collaboration over artistic skill. By the end, the group will have co-created a dreamlike cartography mural of collective care, a visual archive of reimagined worlds where reproductive justice is lived as safety, autonomy, and belonging.
Kandre Arámide Hassan (@kandrearamidehassan) is a cross-disciplinary artist and cultural practitioner working across painting, illustration, poetry, and facilitation. Rooted in her heritage and background in Anthropology, her practice explores the sensory and social dimensions of embodied experience. Through neo-surrealist dreamscapes and intuitive mark-making, Hassan reimagines memory, ritual, and diasporic consciousness as portals into belonging. Beyond her studio practice, she creates spaces of connection through her workshop series ‘journeying through the subconscious’ - using art as a tool for reflection.
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