Please join us for this hybrid workshop & discussion where we will:
🍄Explore how we can decolonize our understanding of care by practicing mutual aid
🍄Reflect on systemic (including the ‘mental health care’ system) and communal failures of care that we have experienced
🍄Discuss how we can grow sustainable mycelial networks of communal care as an act of resistance to systems of oppression

To offset the cost of the space, we appreciate any donations (sliding scale $5-$15) sent via venmo (@synergina13) 😌✨

This event will also include group discussion on healing-centered harm reduction, the impact of identity and intersectionality on these topics, as well as how we can center the values of anti-racism, anti-capitalism and the dismantling of white supremacy through our relationship with ourselves, each other and society at large.

Gina Mostafa, MPH (she/they), founder of Queering Existentialism and K. Eskins, (they/them), founder of Queer Philosophy will be co-facilitating, “Growing Mycelial Mutual Aid Networks: Queering Mental Health & Decolonizing Care” This interactive workshop will be in-person and virtual with harm reduction practices in place such as masking and air filtration.

Gina Mostafa, MPH (she/they), is the founder of @queering_existentialism, an education and connection initiative based in NYC focused on healing-centered harm reduction, non-violent ​communication, restorative justice, psychedelics, sexuality, non-monogamy and other related topics. As an Egyptian American navigating intersectional identities, and a Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies academic, they are passionate about co-creating in-person spaces to discuss liberating ideas outside of the formal constructs of group therapy and academic settings—especially as queer people engaging in pleasure activism.

K. Eskins, M.A. Phil (they/them), founder of @queerphilosophynyc and co-organizer of Trans M.A.S.T. NYC, is passionate about philosophical inquiry as a method of opening up pathways within communities to forge stronger bonds. Inspired by their academic engagement with Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexuality studies, and Trans Philosophy, they aim to facilitate spaces committed to the political project of reconceptualizing how we relate to one another in service of birthing a new world. One of the central questions they are interested in right now is: How can we grow mycelial networks of radical trans care through the decomposition of relational philosophies of empire?