CORRUPT
A three-part experimental writing workshop on rurality and post-socialist belonging.
November ‘25 & Janaury ‘26
These two workshops invited people with connections or interest in rural places to explore the quiet, often-unspoken forms of intimacy, solidarity, and refusal that shape post-socialist rural life.
Over three sessions, we moved from theory to text to making: theoretical and social prompts drawn from Eastern European and queer feminist thinking inform the writing exercises; we developed those texts through editing and feedback; and finally, we made a small collective publication (zine).
The title CORRUPT is borrowed from Veda Popovici’s essay “Solidarity in Illegality: How the Corrupt East Is Already a Queer East”, which uses notions of corruption as a way to describe the informal, affective, and often invisible solidarities that sustain life beyond state or capitalist logics.
Hosts: WET & Kiosk Rotterdam
Made possible by a financial contribution from CBK Rotterdam
writing, rural, east europe, post-socialism, workshop
Over three sessions, we moved from theory to text to making: theoretical and social prompts drawn from Eastern European and queer feminist thinking inform the writing exercises; we developed those texts through editing and feedback; and finally, we made a small collective publication (zine).
The title CORRUPT is borrowed from Veda Popovici’s essay “Solidarity in Illegality: How the Corrupt East Is Already a Queer East”, which uses notions of corruption as a way to describe the informal, affective, and often invisible solidarities that sustain life beyond state or capitalist logics.
Hosts: WET & Kiosk Rotterdam
Made possible by a financial contribution from CBK Rotterdam
Rural Relation Writing Club
A slow-growing series of writing workshops exploring rural life, memory, and imagination. Initiated and organised by Ioana from Seasonal Neighbours in collaboration with Myvillages.writing, rural, east europe, post-socialism, workshop
