Raju Rage

Like Weeds Growing Through Cracks

In this workshop, artist, editor and curator Raju Rage will expand on themes raised in a conversation they had with Queer Masala, published as ‘Like Weeds Growing Through Cracks’ in their recent publication ‘Recipes for Resistance’. Discussions will centre around nature, land, migration and cultural heritage via foraging for food and the potentials for reclaiming and queering these relationships through cooking and eating. The workshop will including reading and eating together and participants may be asked to follow recipes in advance.

If you are interested in attending this workshop, you will be asked to apply with a sentence explaining why.

Raju Rage is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Based in London and working beyond, they explore the spaces and relationships between dis/connected bodies, theory and practice, text and the body and aesthetics and the political substance. Their current interests are around sustainability, economies, care, and resistance. They are a member of Collective Creativity arts collective, A Peoples Art Collective, Another Roadmap and a creative educator and independent scholar with an interest in radical pedagogy.

Raju has a theirstory in activism, self and collective organised queer/ transgender/ people of colour movements and creative projects in London and beyond from which their politics and works draw on and from.

Twitter: Raju_rage

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