With this intervention into Belarusian diaspora, we are organising a series of poetry workshops focused on the issues of collective trauma experiences by the Belarusians since 2020 and seeking for instruments of self-support, self-care and resilience in poetry. The workshops entail collective discussions about the experiences of loss, forced migration, burn-out and exhaustion accompanied by creative writing work and co-production of poetry through collages and black-out techniques.
The digital version of Rasciajenne can also be downloaded here: https://ko-fi.com/s/c5c8ba01a3. If you wish you can leave a donation of any level, and the donation will be used to cover psychological counselling for women-survivors of gender-based violence in Belarus.
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The project is part of the subthemes Mental health narratives in poetry, and Literature as a tool for social equality.
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Belarusian feminist writing laboratory "Rasciajenne"
Belarusian feminist writing laboratory "Rasciajenne" is a peer-to-peer, grass root learning and writing collective that unites poets, writers and play-writers who are working with the topics of collective trauma and memory of trauma, healing and resilience, and feminist standpoint in creative writing. The collective explores and reflects how feminist and queer optics can be used to strengthen Belarusian literature in its diversity and creates events, workshops, writing sessions for Belarusians to engage with literature.
