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In Community: A QTBIPOC Altar SessionDate: Saturday, 21 February 2026
Time: 13:00 – 16:00
Signup: https://forms.gle/mz655QFRLrQUQC9o9
This is a special gathering of altar session kin for Queer and Trans folk who are Black, Indigenous and of colour.
For this gathering, Altar Sessions centres our personal definitions and practices of community. As more of us move toward decentring normative organisations of care and regard, such as the family, we often adopt “community” and community practices as our alternative structures. While this turn toward community, as both mode and tool, signals our desires for and practices for more liveable lives and worlds, it can also carry with it unexamined baggage and romanticised expectations, ones that those we
consider ourselves in community with may not even realise are present.
During this gathering, we will explore and unpack our many definitions of community and community practice, and we’ll identify where they may need nuance, updating, or a
deepened sense of intention. We will be held and supported in this work by an elemental altar.
Come gather around the altar and share in its ancient, ever-timely modalities.
Sign up here to join this altar session.
https://forms.gle/mz655QFRLrQUQC9o9
Please bring: For this altar session please prepare and bring the following:
1. Your current definition and understanding of community and community care.
2. One to three elemental offerings for the altar that mirrors your definition. Your offerings should be items signifying one of the four elements of water, fire, air or earth.
About Altar Sessions
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, or in other more anglicised words, we need each other. We need each other as co-conspirators, comrades and witnesses, especially in our struggles for liberation. Altar Sessions occurs around an elemental altar, an altar
containing signifiers of the elements of water, fire, air and earth. At the heart of Altar
Sessions is exchange and the simple practice of listening and speaking with intention as
a means to create connections deeper than when the exchange had begun.
About the facilitator Mmabatho Thobejane
Altar Sessions is convened and facilitated by Mmabatho together with their guiding ancestors. Mmabatho Thobejane (she/they) is a sangoma and cultural practitioner whose work moves across curating, craft, and text as material practices. Their curatorial work is grounded in pono ya moya, an African Traditional Health practice centered on ancestral healing, through which they curate and facilitate workshops such as altar sessions. Across all their practices, Mmabatho engages the relational triad between self,
community, and the earth.
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