Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Pedagogy of the Dysphoric” here.

This workshop is for teachers, writers, and artists who have been depleted of connection to their bodies, imaginations, and voices.

Dysphoria describes the feelings of separation, grief, anxiety and disembodiment plaguing most people today attempting to live ethically and with joy under capitalism, changing climates, multiple genocides, and a rise in global nationalism.

How to embody learning when the ground, the body, is dysphoric? When it resists embodiment? How can sensuality and connection encourage learning when the present moment is unbearable?

This workshop will be a horizontal space in which mindfulness and reflection, and somatic exercises in combination with writing prompts and discussions will encourage participants to reflect on how their teaching and learning can engage with dysphoria.

Callum Angus is a writer, editor, and publisher of smoke and mold, a literary journal invested in the narrative possibilities trans lives bring to our changing nature-culture. His first story collection, A Natural History of Transition, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and an Oregon Book Award. His work has appeared in many publications, and he writes the newsletter Sex Weather Climate Death, monthly(ish) meditations on a body and the planet in transition. Based in Portland, Oregon, he teaches independent workshops online & through Corporeal Writing.

LA Warman is a poet, death doula, and principal of the independent Warman School. She is the author of the poetry collection Dust, and the erotic novella Whore Foods, which won a Lambda Literary Award.