Community Workshop: Love as a Political Act ❣️
In this event, we aim to hold space to practice love as collective care, courageous boundaries, and everyday resistance.
As the world seems like it is falling apart, I invite people to take a look at their lives to find pockets of love and where things matter most. If you have a mother-figure in your life or not, love for the Other is lacking and we need to find creative ways to (re)build it.
This is the 2nd workshop from the "How to love our mothers" series. The 1st workshop was on "How to love our mothers from Others". You do not need to have attended the first workshop to join :)
Inspired by bell hooks’ vision of love as a radical, ethical practice, the workshop invites you to explore how love can move beyond the private sphere and into the way we relate to others, our mothers, our communities, and the structures that shape our lives. We will pay particular attention to the intersections of migration, care work, and boundaries. Especially when it comes to how we can extend care without erasing ourselves, and how to say “no” as an act of love rather than withdrawal.
Through guided reflection, small-group conversations, and gentle creative exercises, participants will be invited to share experiences of exclusion, everyday racism, gendered expectations, or the emotional labour of care, and then imagine small, concrete practices that turn love into action. We don't have to have all the answers here. But perhaps contemplate: how can we ask better questions?
The aim is not to feel better in isolation, but to feel more connected, grounded, and capable of showing up in our lives, neighbourhoods, and movements with care, clarity, and solidarity.
The workshop is open to migrants, locals, neighbours, caregivers, friends, and anyone who senses that love could be a more powerful, political force in our world today. No prior theory or activism experience is needed. As long as you're willing to listen, speak, and practice love more intentionally in the world around us, you are more than welcome ♡
Register for free on luma.
Suggested cash donation (€5-15) (when you arrive at the workshop)