Joy in Precarity Video Zine
Karaoke as Rematriation and its accompanying scholarship event are further attempts at understanding health disparities within the Trans Migrant Community. Continuing from last year's Decolonisation in Precarity event which tried to identify the inadequacies of trans healthcare in the UK from the point of view of migrants of colour, this year's events begin with the participants' cultures and countries of origin, exploring what remains of their ties to their roots and how reconnecting with these is synonymous with reconnecting with their authenticities, thereby creating less obvious yet hopefully more meaningful pathways to healing from duress.
The Karaoke event was inspired by pre-colonial ritual specialists and healers from the Philippines called 'Babaylan', many of whom used their embodied voices in song to carry out healing rituals while channelling ancestral spirits. Many Babaylans transgressed gender categorisation or what may within modern contexts be referred to as transgender identities. The Picnic as Scholarship event was held to allow space for them to contend with what the Karaoke event had surfaced from them individually and communally, using art and zine-making as mediums.
This video is a visual representation of what transpired during the two events with a few insights and learnings from both.
To view this video zine please use this link or click the cover image on this page.
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