CORRUPT
A three-part experimental writing workshop on rurality and post-socialist belonging.
2025
writing, rural, east europe, post-socialism, workshop
The workshop invites 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 to describe the informal, affective, and often invisible solidarities that sustain life beyond state or capitalist logics.
Workshops hosted at WET & Kiosk Rotterdam and organised by
Research made possible by a financial contribution from CBK Rotterdam.
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 to describe the informal, affective, and often invisible solidarities that sustain life beyond state or capitalist logics.
Workshops hosted at WET & Kiosk Rotterdam and organised by
Rural Relation Writing Club
Research made possible by a financial contribution from CBK Rotterdam.
