Coming soon
Coming soon
Coming soon: 30th of May!
Online Queer Care Community
About the community
The Queer Care Community is a seasonal or monthly membership, that creates space for conversations, care and creation around topics of queerness, community and earth.
After a successful pilot season and implementing all of the feedback from the pilot community, it is now officially time to host our very first season of the Queer Care Community!
Registration will open on the 30th of May!
Start date first season:
Friday the 6th of June
The Queer Care Community is our own cozy little corner of the internet, where we host monthly live care sessions, a bookclub and craft & queer themed workshops with the community.
An online space for us to be together - outside of social media - from the comfort of our own homes. A place where earth loving queers can connect and create together.
Every Friday we come together for an hour long session, from 11 AM - 12PM (CEST)
There are two memberships available: Seasonal Community or Care Community.
More info on each can be found below.
Want to be notified when registration opens?
Seasonal Community
The Seasonal Community membership contains four sessions per month, for three consecutive months: Queer/Craft Workshops, The Slow Book Club and two Queer Care Sessions.
Every season will coincide with and connect to the ecological season of the Northern Hemisphere through themed workshops and sessions.
Queer Care Sessions
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During the Queer Care Sessions we collectively make room to do something caring for ourselves on or off camera: read that book you’ve been meaning to read for so long, go for a walk, create, cook, sing, dance or just do nothing at all.
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There are two care sessions held every month. The care sessions take place every other Friday, between 11AM and 12PM (cest). Replays are available on the community page.
Queer & craft workshops
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Queer & craft workshops are hosted monthly and look like:
Craft workshops: are seasonal plant/craft workshops led by Toyah, Mandy or guest artist where we explore one technique or medium per season.
Queer themed workshops: Are an open exploration/conversation on important topics such as community care, neurodivergence, disability justice, trans care, earth justice and more.
Community led workshop:
There is space for community members to host their own workshop or session with the community. These sessions will be held throughout the seasons. Contact us if this is something you would like to do!
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Workshops are hosted live once a month on Friday’s between 11AM and 12PM (cest). 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.
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There will be one live book club session held monthly on Friday’s between 11AM and 12PM (cest). 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: to dive deeper into specific topics, find people to meet up with or share a request on the community care board.Garden of Queerdom also has a separate Whatsapp community group that members can join.
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The Discord channel and Whatsapp Group are always open and available to every member, forever!
Pricing
The Seasonal Community membership is offered through sliding scale pricing: €17,50 (community price) €25 (regular price) and €32,50 (support price) monthly. There are free community memberships available for those who cannot afford the lowest end of the price scale.
The membership fees are paid monthly, for three consecutive months. After that, the membership can be cancelled, switched to another membership or is automatically renewed for another season.
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.
Care community
The Care Community membership offers the possibility to join only the Queer Care Sessions from the seasonal membership and can be cancelled monthly.
Queer Care Sessions are an easily accessible and low key way to connect with the community and yourself twice a month. The sessions are held every other Friday of the month.
Care Community members also get access to the online community platform on Discord and to the private community WhatsApp group.
Queer Care Sessions
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During the Queer Care Sessions we collectively make room to do something caring for ourselves on or off camera: read that book you’ve been meaning to read for so long, go for a walk, create, cook, sing, dance or just do nothing at all.
In the chat there is room to check in and share with the community. -
There are two care sessions held every month. The care sessions take place every other Friday, between 11AM and 12PM (cest). Replays are available on 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: to dive deeper into specific topics, find people to meet up with or share a request on the community care board.Garden of Queerdom also has a separate Whatsapp community group that members can join.
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The Discord channel and Whatsapp Group are always open and available to every member, forever!
Pricing
The Care Community membership is offered through sliding scale pricing: €7,50 (community price) €10 (regular price) and €12,50 (support price) monthly. There are free community memberships available for those who cannot afford the lowest end of the price scale.
The membership fees are paid monthly. After that, the membership can be cancelled, switched to another membership or is automatically renewed for another month.
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.
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 you 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 livelyhoods, 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 for 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 every month on managing the Queer Care Community alone.