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farzana
(She/Her)
Farzana is a poet, relational practitioner, and long-time kink player whose work lives at the threshold between chaos and slowness. She is drawn to the wild, unpredictable textures of desire and relationality, yet rooted in practices of pause, presence, and tending to breath. Her teachers are rivers, diaspora, and sick aging bodies. She listens, teaches, and partners with minor gestures that guide intimacy when language falters or arrives too late.
She explores consent and negotiation through poetic perception: sensation as metaphor, boundaries as shifting landscapes, bodies as ecologies with tides, thickets, coves, and soft moss. Her workshops invite participants to listen to themselves and each other the way one listens to a poem—slowly, curiously, without requiring complete clarity or confession. The relational worlds of community, disability, dysphoria, neurodivergence, ancestral memory, and the ever-changing weather of the body shape this work.
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Who will be presenting:
Bodies as Worlds: Negotiation Practice for Dysphoric & Disabled Bodies
Class Description
Negotiation is not only about defining limits; it is the meeting of two ecosystems. Not two individuals, but two ecologies—histories, rhythms, sensory profiles, traumas, pleasures, and impossibilities. When these ecologies touch, they create an ecotone: a threshold alive with new relational possibilities. In this space, negotiation becomes the tending of a shared, sensitive edge. This workshop uses ecological metaphor as a hands-on method for negotiating between dysphoric, disabled, neurodivergent, or otherwise non-normative bodies. The approach reduces pressure for exposure and honors opacity as a poetics of relation: bodies can be known without being fully revealed. Participants map themselves as landscapes—gardens with protected moss, coastlines with shifting tides, forests with hidden clearings—and partners (or solo practitioners) approach as visitors or neighboring ecosystems, learning where to step lightly, where to pause, and where not to enter. Here, boundaries become terrains. Negotiation becomes relational ecology. And new possibilities grow in the ecotone between us.
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