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I guess this is a long shot but I wanted to try. I attended grapplr last night with my polycule. Just after the show, I saw a very nice person there who seemed to be a little uncomfortable so I smiled at them and they came over and we talked a bit. Before we left I said I'd like to see them again but didn't think to get their number/email/social media. My name is Rachel and they said their name was something like "Meow" or "Mew" and they had very big glasses with red frames. If you're them or you know how to get in touch with them, can you reach out so we can get to know each other more?

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This is not an act of censorship--QABQ's founder Gabriel/YungXGabuelo chose to remove the previous Queer Community Health posting discussing my personal sexual health as well as an other community members. This space is meant to uplift the Queer community not be a place of name-dropping and discussing private sexual health manners. I am ALL about sexual health responsibility and discussion--PLEASE message me in private to continue the discussion: @YungXGabuelo

Transparency and honesty are topics of life I am working on as a Queer person and I ask for my private life to remain confidential for my respect.

QABQ does not support hearsay or Queer-on-Queer disrespect, if there are issues within the Queer community, especially, around Queer sexual health please go directly to the individuals involved ASAP to directly address concerns. The community really has to support community y'all and we gotta do it from trust and truth...

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Ok, so this isn't really a party, but maybe a whole day of being together on some cozy couches, and each person gets a full-🤬 two hours to share the fragmentation and repeat back-to-back trauma in their lives. A small group so that people have the space to share. It's funny that the magic from lumen theory and also hosting this saturday's party is already healing me, but I think this is still needed by many people, especially those of us who have lost our jobs and/or worked remotely in the pandie.

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Did we meet at Int. Women's Day @ the Liberation Center? Connect with us here, say what's up, drop your IG! IG: @QueeringAlbuquerque

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Did we meet at Int. Women's Day @ the Liberation Center? Connect with us here, say what's up, drop your IG! IG: @QueeringAlbuquerque

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https://forms.gle/7BcZfnus2UzuG2PVA

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Feel free to chose as many of the below options as you wish NOTE: only one event will occur for next month! More to come :)

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March 4th: Stepping into Queerness Community Chat ❤️ 

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March 4th: Stepping into Queerness Community Chat ❤️ 

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Space dedicated to our community time together while we dive into:
What it means to be in Community? Queer Community?
What is our current relationship (if any) to a self-identified Higher Self?
What is our current relationship (if any) to any self-identified version of Love?
What is a Queer Superpower? What is YOURS (if any)?

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✨QABQ Project Description* open for community review, critique, LOVE :) 

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✨QABQ Project Description* open for community review, critique, LOVE :) 

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The Queer Artistic community in Albuquerque has been one of separation and seclusion, lacking true community.  Albuquerque is on a path of healing, Queering Albuquerque (QABQ) attempts to be an accelerator to this healing. QABQ has intentions of weaving together the many pockets of existing Queer communities spread throughout our larger ABQ community. By uniting our communities through creativity and collective healing, QABQ intends to create new and safer spaces for Queer artists to feel included, acknowledged, and supported.

QABQ intends to do this with community gatherings that will not only focus on networking but also intended to be spaces of development dedicated to the improvement of the self and the Queer Artistic community. QABQ aims to offer development artistically through creative workshops (dance classes, drag performance support, digital media workshops, etc), administrative workshops (courses in marketing, budgeting, grant writing, verbal confidence development in the workplace, etc), and emotional-health workshops (often Queer folks did not have safe-space growing up to talk about emotions and how to navigate—refer to @QueeringAlbuquerque (IG) for an example of this space).

QABQ’s founder, Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales, is a Queer lifelong Burquenx and understands the importance of listening to the community to direct project development. For this reason, all of the above events are suggestions and will be presented to the community before any further development. This is reflective of the practices that QABQ will continue to follow as the organization grows—one rooted in the community to better provide for the community.

Currently, many Queer spaces do not support intergenerational learning. Most queer safe spaces only become accessible in adulthood and are centered in drinking and hyper sexualization which does not allow our Queer youth to experience what it means to be Queer in a space that is free from those vices. QABQ is devoted to making as many spaces as possible intergenerational, where elders of all ages can share with and learn from their community.

QABQ is dedicated to supporting Queer Artists of Albuquerque to actively dream a new future for themselves while enabling this community to make those dreams become a reality. One dream Gabriel has for QABQ is providing unrestricted funds to the Queer Artistic community, striving to remove limitations that financial stress causes.

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✨QABQ Mission✨ open for community review, critique, LOVE! :) 

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✨QABQ Mission✨ open for community review, critique, LOVE! :) 

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Queering Albuquerque’s mission is to increase support networks and systems for self-identified Queer Artistis in Albuquerque. Networks and systems being artistic, administrative, and emotional-health workshops, gatherings, panels, dance, film, digital media workshops, etc; while attempting to create new physical space for the Queer Artistic community in Albuquerque.

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For me, the most damaging aspects of the queer community itself are not from outside sources, they are from within. I resent many queer people and have withdrawn from the queer community as a whole because of how we interact at parties, at bars, and on online apps. The lack of accountability and responsibility that these spaces create has left me with a hollow feeling towards anyone in the queer community. Yet, on a structural level we allow and celebrate these spaces. We have meetings, events, leaders and participants all laughing about parties and sex positive behaviors when there is nothing sex positive about this community. This community is sex obsessed, sex repressed, and using sex for their own needs and gains, the community is not sex positive. And having these celebrations of thoughts on a structural level has left me in disdain for the community as a whole. And I don’t think I’m alone in that concept. I refuse to be around the community anymore, it’s too difficult. I’m tired of hearing about beads and leather and drinks and validation s*x.

The most healing and community creating space I can envision is a dating or socializing event where people are paired up for 5 minutes with thoughtful questions or cards like “we’re not really strangers” games or provocative questions. Once the 5 minutes are up, they move to another person. I think being in person and in a sober space without music without all of the shadows of night, people can treat each other correctly and have accountability and responsibility towards each other.

—Toni

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guerilla botany

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✨QABQ Project Synopsis✨ open for community review, critique, LOVE! :) 

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✨QABQ Project Synopsis✨ open for community review, critique, LOVE! :) 

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Queering ABQ (QABQ) is intended to plant seeds of growth, healing, and co-manifestation within the ABQ Queer community. These seeds will be watered by professional artistic development spaces, creative development events, and community expansion/education spaces using an open-conversation, community-driven curation process.  QABQ attempts to be accessible for elders of all ages, creating intergenerational Queer space! Gabriel has the vision of using QABQ to spark inspiration, community, equitable pay for artists, and to change the narrative of what it means to be a self-identified Queer artist in ABQ.

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Want to hear more? Want to come to our events in the future? Drop your email and/or IG here--this is a PUBLIC space please do so only if you are comfortable and want to engage with our Queer Artistic community! Community members PLEASE RESPECT PRIVACY, this is not a space for harm or any ill intent! 

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Want to hear more? Want to come to our events in the future? Drop your email and/or IG here--this is a PUBLIC space please do so only if you are comfortable and want to engage with our Queer Artistic community! Community members PLEASE RESPECT PRIVACY, this is not a space for harm or any ill intent! 

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Imagine, a space for queer elders to find safe community in their last bountiful years. So many of our people end up alone in hospitals or unsafe spaces.

- credit goes to jimmy for the elderly home idea

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Creative Community Collaborative Bulletin 

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Creative Community Collaborative Bulletin 

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A consensually shared contact list/ callout for artists to work together. Helpful when seeking specific collaborators like graphic design, sculpture, etc.