SUMMER 2025
course: Writing at the Edge of Being
dates: june 22 - july 6, sundays
format: online (zoom)
status: open
A note from P Eldridge:
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to stay. To stay alive, to stay connected, to stay soft. Not in the sense of enduring punishment or gritting through, but in the sense of choosing to remain in a world that too often tells trans people to disappear. This world is obsessed with erasure, with denial, with disappearing what doesn’t fit its scripts. Capitalism, fascism, and even some forms of so-called “liberation” all depend on our absence or our performance. But I’m not interested in performing. I’m interested in being here. Fully. Complicatedly. Lovingly. Writing at the Edge of Being is about writing from that place. This course centers the act of remaining—staying present, alive, complex, and connected—as a radical practice of trans survival and resistance. In a world that so often insists on disappearance, assimilation, or fragmentation, we will write toward staying. Not just enduring, but choosing to love, to create, to connect, and to witness ourselves and each other. Writing becomes not only a record, but a refusal: to vanish, to be simplified, to be silenced.
We’ll explore how writers across genres insist on life – not just in spite of violence or invisibility, but through joy, memory, sensuality, lineage, and fierce love. What does it mean to remain? To love in public? To speak when you weren’t expected to survive?
led by P. Eldridge of SISSY ANARCHY.
While this workshop is no-cost, please consider contributing to P's gender affirming surgery recovery fund.
email t4twritingacademy [at] gmail [dot] com + pierce.eldridge [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject "T4T Summer" to enroll. Be sure to include both email addresses as recipients.
FALL 2024
course: Body Poetics
dates: november 24 - december 15, sundays
format: online (zoom)
status: full
Body Poetics is a four week long, open genre writing workshop that explores the connection between the mind-body and writing process by utilizing self-awareness techniques inspired by Proprioceptive Writing, meditation, breathwork, sound healing, and movement. Participants will be guided through various physical and mental exercises aimed at grounding, softening, and opening the self to encourage a more embodied writing practice. Together we will investigate our individual experiences throughout these exercises, challenge ourselves to slow down—or speed up, if desired—and ultimately deepen our relationship to the mind-body at work while writing.
Prior writing experience is not required.
Come to class curious and ready to experiment.
email t4twritingacademy [at] gmail [dot] com for waitlist
SUMMER 2024
course: Failure as Resistance
dates: july 7 - august 4, sundays
format: in-person (nyc) + zoom
status: n/a
Failure as Resistance is a five week long, peer-led, multi-genre writing workshop exploring failure within the framework of Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure. Participants are encouraged to contribute further reading material that aligns with Jack’s musings on “low theory.” Together we will investigate the relationships between these works, discuss our individual experiences with “failure” under capitalism, and respond to writing prompts produced collaboratively. Participants will have designated time to workshop a piece with the group, if desired. Failure as Resistance will conclude with a zine publication of writing generated during the course.
Prior writing experience is not required.
Come to class ready to fail, forget, and fall apart.
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