Join us in celebrating National Coming Out Day with a workshop led by Cai Quirk on Tuesday, October 11th at 12pm in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.
Stories, myths, and legends aren’t just tales created long ago, but ones newly created as well. Looking at myths and stories today offers ways to find deeper insight into our own lives and ways of interacting with the world around us. In a world that tries to erase the presences of LGBTQIA+ folks, it is even more vital that we continue to tell our stories, whether they are the everyday realities of our lives, or mythic tales of realities deeper than ordinary truths. Binary ways of seeing the world will not simply disappear — they must be replaced by ways of seeing and honoring fluidity and change as natural and necessary. This workshop is an act of restoryation, engaging with new stories, myths, and legends, ones that walk the many paths beyond supposed binaries: male and female, night and day, land and sea, earth and sky, life and death, self and other, self and earth.
Cai Quirk is a genderqueer/fluid multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on intersections of gender diversity throughout history, its erasure, and contemporary reclamation and restoryation. The powerful act of queer restoryation creates new stories and myths where others were erased. Their upcoming book with Skylark Editions, ‘Transcendence,’ connects gender, mythology, and nature-based spirituality through photos and stories. Cai received degrees in music and photography from Indiana University.