Unhad conversations are the experiences and stories about loss of intimacy, belonging, connection to physical spaces and community. We are here to remember and to unpack the loss of the revolutionary dancefloors where we used to write stories with movement, queer spaces where we felt seen as equals and long dinners where we shared about the pressing issues of our lives. The project is here to help the participants to unpack some lived experiences into text, audio and picture.

Marginalized people have experienced great losses. Pandemic, war and the rise of the right wing.

Sometimes during this time we have leaned on to utopistic pictures of the future to survive, sometimes we have tracked data trying to solve our way out of it and sometimes we have paused our lives to follow forced self-care routines. We have taken on hobbies, started new meal plans and attended non-parties at Zoom. We want to have the unhad conversations and document the effects and survival mechanisms that marginalized people have faced in this era.

The creatives will be chosen to be participants in Unhad Conversations by the project leaders and coordinators Meriam Trabelsi and Caroline Suinner aka The Soft Collective aka Pehmee kollektiivi. Unhad Conversations will follow strict guidelines of safer spaces policies and centers the marginalized experience and safety of these particular people.

The goal of the project is to create new possibilities, perspectives and a platform that provides a space to talk about the issues that are important to the creatives who are participating. We want to work with a step by step method that can be multiplied and used to amplify hidden talent also in the future.