Spring season is open!
Spring season is open!
The Queer Care Community
Spring season enrollment is closed.
We close until the next Summer season opens up again in June.
Want to join our sweet little group?
About the community
The Queer Care Community is an intimate online community space, where we share, create & care with other like-minded,
earth-loving queers.
Our own cozy little corner of the internet, where we come together for weekly live sessions hosted for and by the community.
It’s an accessible & safe(r) online alternative space for us to be together - outside of social media - from the comfort of our own homes.
If you have been looking for a sweet, quirky, caring & supportive community of queers to feel accepted and loved by, this is the place is for you.
Every Friday morning we come together for an hour long session on Zoom, from 11 AM - 12PM (CET)
Our first Spring session starts on:
Friday the 13th of March
Spring is here!
After four seasons of existing together in this wonderful and special space, we are getting ready for a new year of the Queer Care Community.
This Spring season, we will center on “hope” as our main theme. Slowly moving from low Winter energy into the light of spring, planting seeds of community together, learning new skills, building on new dreams.
We would love to welcome you into our community and into our space - a place that has been built by and has evolved with all of the members involved in the last four seasons.
Below you will find all of the information about the upcoming new season.
Reviews from the community
Seasonal Community
The Seasonal Community is a seasonal membership that contains four weekly sessions per month, for three consecutive months; Workshops & Skill Share Sessions, The Slow Book Club and Queer Care Sessions.
Every season will coincide with and connect to the ecological season of the Northern Hemisphere through themed workshops and sessions.
More info on each session can be found below.
Queer Care Sessions
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During the Queer Care Sessions we collectively make room to care for ourselves and each other on/off camera: read that book you’ve been meaning to read for so long, go for a walk, create, cook, sing, dance or just witness your community in care.
The care sessions start with a check-in and from there on out we work on something caring for ourselves and witness each other do the same. In the chat there is room to check in further and share with the community. -
There are two care sessions held every month. The care sessions take place every other Friday on Zoom, between 11AM and 12PM (CET). Replays are available on the community page.
Workshops & Skill-shares
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Workshops & sessions this Spring
This season, we will center on “hope” as our main theme. Slowly moving from low Winter energy into the light of spring, planting seeds of community together, learning new skills, building on new dreams.
We will be dreaming up our ideal (imaginary) community garden through our craft workshop, be guided to move our bodies and navigating stress through the skill share by our community member & embodiment facilitator Misha and explore how we can build resilient communities through our “community organising” workshop.More about the workshops
Workshops are hosted monthly and look like:Seasonal craft workshops: guided craft workshop where we take a moment to celebrate and create with the season, hosted by Toyah or guest artist.
Queer themed workshops: an open exploration/conversation on important topics such as; community care, neurodivergence, disability justice, trans care, BIPOC experiences, earth justice and more.
Community led workshop:
every season a community member has the space to host their own skill-sharing workshop or session with the community.
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Workshops are hosted live on Zoom once a month, on Friday’s between 11AM and 12PM (CET). Replays are available on the community page.
The Slow Book Club
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The Slow Book Club is a seasonal book club, where we discuss our favorite and important writings on queer care & earth justice.
Every season will be accompanied by one book, which we will discuss over the course of three months.
This Spring season we will be reading: We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself - by Isabelle Fremeaux & Jay Jordan.
“Chronicles the story of the ZAD (zone to defend), a resistant land occupation emerging out of a decades-long struggle which stopped a new airport project”
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/we-are-nature-defending-itself/ -
There will be one live book club session held monthly on Zoom, on Friday’s between 11AM and 12PM (CET). Replay’s are available through the community page.
Online Community Channels
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A Discord community channel is made available for every community member that joins & will stay available after they leave.
This channel is a private space where you can connect with each other outside of the live sessions through video calls and text. Community members host body doubling sessions here or just hang out together on/off camera for fun.Garden of Queerdom also has a separate Whatsapp community group that everyone can join.
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The Discord channel and Whatsapp Group are always open and available to every member, forever!
Pricing & payment
The Seasonal Community membership is offered through sliding scale pricing: €17,50 (community care price) €25 (regular price) and €32,50 (solidarity price) monthly. There are financial hardship memberships available for those who cannot afford the lowest end of the price scale.
The membership fees are paid monthly. After each month the membership automatically renews or can be cancelled before the end of the billing period.
For more information on pricing and transparency on the time, energy and care that is put into this online community, scroll to the “price transparency” section below.
Payment options
You can pay your monthly subscription through all major creditcards.
If you don’t own a creditcard:
Bunq bank (among others) offers a pre-paid online “credit” card that you can use to pay by IDEAL with your bank account, PayPal or Apple Wallet - the online Bunq card can be used to make payments just like a regular credit card, but without the credit.
ASN Bank also offers a debit based “credit card”.
If you need help with setting up your payment, contact us at:
gardenofqueerdom@gmail.com
FAQs
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No, this space welcomes all sexualities/genders/beings. It is however a “queer centered” space, meaning that it centers the experiences of queer people through the topics and discussions we engage in.
Anybody that is an ally and respects this space is welcome to join and learn/participate. -
Yes, very much so. Both Toyah (adhd) and Mandy (audhd) are neurodivergent - as well as a large part of our community members - we have a lot experience navigating the neurodivergent experience.
This space is also designed to honor the needs of people who are chronically ill and/or have (other) physical or mental disabilities.
If you are looking for a more specific neurodiverngent focussed space, we are opening up neuroqueer support sessions soon. Visit the Neuroqueer Care page for more info -
Nope! It’s totally up to you which sessions you join or don’t join.
The workshops and book club are part of a seasonal series, but designed to also be enjoyed on their own.
You can also watch the replays of previous sessions if you like. -
The Seasonal membership offers a three month series of sessions (workshops, book club, care sessions) which opens up every new season and runs for three months.
The membership is billed and can be cancelled monthly. -
Yes! The replays from each session can be found through the separate “replay” page in the membership area.
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No! It is totally up to you in which way you participate in the sessions and workshops. You can be on- or offscreen, type in the chat or just be with us.
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You can pay your monthly subscription through all major creditcards.
If you don’t own a creditcard:
Bunq Bank (among others) offers a pre-paid online “credit” card that you can use to link to your bank account through IDEAL, PayPal or Apple Wallet - Online “credit” card such as Bunq can be used to make payments just like a regular credit card, but without the credit.ASN also offers a debit/credit card without a loan.
Visit the link below:
https://www.bunq.com/nl-nl/personal-account/banking-features/credit-card
If you need help organising your payment, please contact us through email. -
There are financial hardship passes available for the membership. Please contact us through gardenofqueerdom@gmail.com for the possibilities.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please reach out to us through email: gardenofqueerdom@gmail.com
About your host
My name is Toyah (she/her) - I am a neurodivergent and queer artist, community organisor, herbal crafter & the founder of Garden of Queerdom. I will be your host throughout the seasons.
I aim to make this space as accessible as possible and have a non-hierarchal way of facilitating/teaching. This community is held and built by all of us together & In this space there is room to grow, experiment and show up exactly as we are: imperfect, messy and beautiful.
I would love to have you here with us.
Love,
Toyah
Price & labor transparency
It has always been our goal to make Garden of Queerdom as accessible as possible to our community. We never want money to stand in the way of much needed community and queer care, and would never send people away for this reason.
Both of us have dealt with multiple periods of burnout, financial hardship and mental health issues, and we therefor recognize the hardship and desperate need for care and community that so many of us have.
However, it is also important for us to recognize that we, as two queer and neurodivergent artists, should also receive a fair wage for our labor. A lot of time, care and energy is poured into this community and without the proper care for ourselves and our livelihood, we can not uphold the work that we do in a sustainable way.
We want to be as transparent as possible about how our time is spent and the pricing that has come from that. We feel that this creates more room for other queer entrepreneurs and creatives to also receive a fair wage for their labor, therefor creating more financial safety for all of us.
Below you will find a rough overview of the minimum amount of hours that are spent by one person, every month on managing the Queer Care Community alone.