Doing Disability Futures
📅 Thursday 22nd October
📍 Common Press, SHOREDITCH
⏰ Doors 6:30 PM, start 7:00 PM SHARP, 90 min
🎟 Free Entry
Online and in person
♿ Step-free access and accessible toilet facilities
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What does "crip worldmaking" look like when we build a future for all of us? Join facilitator Kylo and a panel of queer, disabled migrants and people of colour to explore disability justice, inclusion, and care beyond the capitalist grind.
Inviting back participants from the Doing Disability Futures (DDF) project, this panel discussion reflects on ongoing work and lived experiences at the intersecting realities of disability, race, migration, and queer identity. Together, panellists will challenge colonial systems, question societal pressures around productivity, and discuss what genuine accessibility and collective care look like in practice.
This session offers a powerful space to learn, share, and imagine radical crip futures grounded in liberation and mutual support. Whether you are disabled yourself, involved in community organising, or passionate about building a truly inclusive world, everyone is welcome.
This event is part of Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest and Love Hub – two festivals collaborating to create one big queer East London celebration from 11th - 20th September.
📽 Explore the full Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest programme here
🌈 Discover the full Love Hub programme here
A note on The Love Hub well-being: All the venues we're using are ventilated - but that doesn't make them totally COVID, flu, or common-cold safe. We'll have free masks available, HEPA filters pumping, and designated quieter spaces for folx who need a moment. Got a cough, cold, or flu-like symptoms? Please rest up at home until your symptoms have subsided: many of us in our communities have to do everything we can not to get sick, including those of us with disabilities or compromised immune systems.
In addition to the above, we strongly request that participants at this event wear face masks (unless there is a medical reason why masking is not possible). Masks will be available at the door. Masking is an act of solidarity for those of us who have to take extra care. Your solidarity is appreciated. There will be a dedicated area, right next to an additional HEPA filter, for anyone who would like to be positioned in that area.
Our House Rules (and Why They Matter)
The Love Hub is brought to you by The Love Tank, a non-profit organisation promoting the health and well-being of underserved communities.
We’re a lived experience organisation: we’re queer, pro-trans, and believe that migrants make our worlds richer and more joyful. We’re proudly anti-racist and believe access to health care - including abortion - is a human right. We stand for bodily autonomy, including reproductive justice, the decriminalisation of drug use and sex work, and access to gender-affirming care.
A lot of our work focuses on sexual health, so please expect conversations that include sex and sexual well-being.
If you’ve just discovered The Love Tank and are thinking of booking a Love Hub ticket, but find our values challenging, this is a great moment to ask yourself: “Is this space right for me?”
Some sessions will have an official photographer present. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let us know when you arrive at a session. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, photography, video, or audio recording of panel members or audience members is not permitted. Anyone who records or photographs without consent will be asked to leave the session.
Our events are fun, joyful, and supportive. It takes courage for presenters and facilitators to get up and share their work, so please be respectful: clap in the right places, don’t heckle, and help create a welcoming environment. If our values don’t align with yours, that’s okay - please don’t attend. We won’t mind.
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