Workshop: Remapping Masculinity

This creative collage workshop, rooted in the transmasculine experience, will provide space to reflect on our inherited and learnt masculinities, with the aims to reimagining a masculinity which aligns with our desired queer futures.  

Starting with a guided discussion, we will reflect on the masculinities we may have learnt as a tool to ‘pass’, as a form of safety, as a byproduct of cisheteronormativity. We will use collage and Dada poetry to collectively reimagine how we can map our own pathways to masculinities which forgo the harms of cis-replication, and instead enable queer futures. 

This workshop, led by Kenya Sterling and Sega H, will be grounded in the transmasculine experience, but is open to anyone who identifies with masculinity or experiences life as a masculine person.

This workshop is NOT included in any Festival Pass and must be booked separately

All workshop attendees will receive a complimentary ticket to the Queer Masculinities Panel at 6pm

Kenya Sterling (he/they) is a queer working class creative and writer. His multidisciplinary work spans across performance, writing, and visual art. Kenya enjoys exploring masculinity, working class identity, transness, and blackness; often looked at through a surrealist lense. Credits include; The Belt of Venus (writer), I Can See the Sun but | Can’t Feel it Yet (narrator). Most recently Kenya received the Tony Craze’s Highly Commended award for their play The Threat of a Storm.

Sega Halsall (he/him) is a researcher & visual artist. His practice explores the intersections of infrastructure, gendered norms and their affect on trans existence; his work is dedicated towards creating trans-centred pathways to knowledge. Sega leads on Community Knowledge at QUEERCIRCLE, and his current MSc research at KCL centres on the Affect of healthcare infrastructures on trans personhood. His artistic practice is inseparable from trans organising; as a founding member of FORT, a trans-run somatic studio, his tattoo practice understands the body as a site of reclamation and tattooing as gender-affirming care. This intersection of affect & care was central to his 2025 solo exhibition in Madrid, using ceramics to interrogate the boundaries between desirability, acceptance and consumability of the trans body.