About
In Queer Teens Group we collectively make and hold space for each other in generating discussion, creativity, joy, community, and understanding. We welcome teens under the LGBTQIA2+ umbrella. We’ll meet virtually once a week.
Together our group will generate topics we’d like to explore within and beyond the Trans, Queer, and questioning universe. We’ll navigate this universe through conversation, games, doodling, writing, laughter, visioning, image-making, asking questions, watching films, reading, movement, storytelling, and more!
We will also check out local Trans and Queer artists work across a range of different media and invite various guest artists to lead creative prompts within our class.
Throughout the semester we will ask students if they would like to contribute their creative output towards a zine as a gift to each other and future classes. We’ll make something very specific to this group of people to this moment. Won’t you be a part of it?
Isa Coffey, WiseBodies Director, will also guest teach a special 2-class segment of Queering Sex Ed, and further guest teachers and class visitors will be announced as the semester progresses.
The conversation around our (virtual) table will be warm and filled with laughter, steady and safe, inclusive, and welcoming.
Dates & Time
We'll meet Mondays, 5-6:30pm starting March 13, and going until June 12, with two weeks off, to be determined based on students schedules.
We'll meet virtually via Zoom so students can join us from anywhere.
Teachers
Jeremy Bloom
Jeremy Bloom (he/him) works in community gatherings and art, including collaborating with Isa and WiseBodies on Pom-Pom Prom. He makes movies and more with Evenstar Films, makes plays and parties with Rady&Bloom, and helps to organize events and exhibitions at Athens Cultural Center.
Hobbies include drawing with sharpies and discovering things he never knew he never knew. As a teacher, he continues to learn, and has taught workshops at NYU, Northwestern, Montclair State and various high schools. Jeremy is grateful for and inspired by WiseBodies.
Kole Kovacs
Kole (he/they) is an all around creative collaborator at WiseBodies, as well as a class leader. He helps with our communications, provides administrative and technical support, and collaborates with WiseBodies in emergent ways. He was also an assistant teacher for the 2019-2020 KNOW and CIRCLE classes and co-leads Queer Teens Group.
Kole is a lifelong learner. He sees so much wisdom and energy in WiseBodies and is excited to share in the mission of helping people learn more about bodies, plants, and sexuality (aka communication!).
Registration + Cost
The semester cost is $360 - $600 sliding scale for 12 classes. We ask that families make a commitment to attending classes for a full semester. Payment plans and partial scholarships are available. Priority given to Black, Indigenous and People of the Global Majority.
Email wisebodies@wisebodies.org for more information.