SUMMER 2025 - Writing at the Edge of Being with P. Eldridge of SISSY ANARCHY
brought to you by T4T Writing Academy <3 see registration details below ~
Hi! First of all, thank you so much for believing in this project, subscribing to the T4T Writing Academy newsletter, and for a wonderful 2024. T4T Writing Academy is officially one year old, and it is so exciting to continue nurturing this dream that was born out of the student-led protests in Spring of 2024. I didn’t have any sort of plan in mind for T4T Writing Academy when it began, other than that I wanted to create an accessible space for writing and education outside of the larger entities that continue to repress the voices of those fighting for a world where we can all truly be free. I have been laser focused on other projects since the Winter and can’t believe it’s already nearing June, but T4T’s debut is still fresh in my mind. Our first workshop over last summer was Failure as Resistance, a peer-led study inspired by Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure. In the Fall, I facilitated Body Poetics, an embodied writing workshop that integrated movement, meditation, and somatic exercises into the writing process. Since last year, I have been studying with Prison Yoga Project and will graduate next week as a trauma-informed yoga facilitator. I am continuing my studies this summer with more somatic training, and while I have been intermittently teaching online, I am hoping to offer in-person classes by September. You can find more information about my practice at move-soma.com or on Instagram.
This year, I am over the moon to begin opening up this space for other writers to lead workshops. T4T Writing Academy is a collaboration and act of care; a space be in community with other trans writers across the globe—and it belongs to us all. P, my sweet friend in the UK, will be leading this Summer’s workshop before her gender affirming surgery. T4T Writing Academy workshops will always be no-cost, however, please consider contributing any amount to P’s surgery recovery fund, and/or sharing this in your circles on and offline. We are so blessed with this offering, and I would love for P to reach her goal and feel taken care of before a long period of rest.
P took the Body Poetics workshop last Fall, and at times it really did feel like we were sitting there on the floor together as we discussed memory and the body’s archive, even though we were actually on Zoom, many miles and a massive ocean apart. I am so grateful for the love she has poured into this summer workshop.
Without further ado, an introduction to T4T Writing Academy’s Summer 2025 workshop led by the lovely P. Eldridge of SISSY ANARCHY.
Take care,
xx Zach
Writing at the Edge of Being
with P. Eldridge of SISSY ANARCHY
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to stay. To stay alive, to stay connected, to stay soft. Not in the sense of enduring punishment or gritting through, but in the sense of choosing to remain in a world that too often tells trans people to disappear. This world is obsessed with erasure, with denial, with disappearing what doesn’t fit its scripts. Capitalism, fascism, and even some forms of so-called “liberation” all depend on our absence or our performance. But I’m not interested in performing. I’m interested in being here. Fully. Complicatedly. Lovingly.
This is a class about writing from that place.
It’s about the effort—sometimes daily, sometimes moment-by-moment—to resist dissociation, to resist exile from our own bodies, our own needs, our own desires. It’s about staying with ourselves, with each other, with the mess. Not for applause. Not for art-world consumption. But because staying is sacred. Because staying is a form of love.
Over the years, I’ve come to see that love—not as a feeling, but as a practice—is a kind of revolution. It’s exhausting. It’s inconvenient. It’s scary. It’s the only thing that’s ever moved anything. In this class, we’ll explore writing as a way of building trans futures that aren't clean or easy or linear, but that persist. That remain. That care.
Writing is where I go to tell the truth when no one’s asking. I want to share that space with others who are hungry for the real. If you’re a weirdo or a witch, a mystic or a punk, a softhearted dissociator who’s still trying: this class is for you. We’ll read, write, cry, scream, and stay. If you’ve been to a class of mine before, thank you. If you’re new, welcome.
This course centers the act of remaining—staying present, alive, complex, and connected—as a radical practice of trans survival and resistance. In a world that so often insists on disappearance, assimilation, or fragmentation, we will write toward staying. Not just enduring, but choosing to love, to create, to connect, and to witness ourselves and each other. Writing becomes not only a record, but a refusal: to vanish, to be simplified, to be silenced.
We’ll explore how writers across genres insist on life – not just in spite of violence or invisibility, but through joy, memory, sensuality, lineage, and fierce love. What does it mean to remain? To love in public? To speak when you weren’t expected to survive?
Themes we might explore:
Writing as survival, not documentation
Trans time: nonlinear life, rebirth, and ritual
Loving as resistance (including eros, kinship, friendship, care)
Refusal to disappear: memory, history, and legacy
Writing the future: speculative resistance and imaginative staying
The labor of joy
Making a home in your body, in language, in the world
—Imogen Binnie, Nevada
Where will it be?
We’ll gather on Zoom. The sessions won’t be recorded; real-time presence is encouraged.
When?
Three consecutive Sundays:
June 22, June 29, and July 6
What time?
Sundays, 9 AM – 12 PM PST / 12 – 3 PM EST / 5 – 8 PM GMT
What else should you know?
Joining means showing up for yourself and for everyone else. Community care is the priority: that means mutual respect, active listening, kindness, and being honest, even when it's messy.
If this class speaks to you and you want to apply, please email me and tell me why you want to be part of it. A few heartfelt lines are enough.
I’m really looking forward to writing and being with you.
Sweet P x
*To register for Writing at the Edge of Being:
Please email t4twritingacademy@gmail.com + pierce.eldridge@gmail.com, with the subject line “T4T Summer,” and include a brief description of your interest in the class. Be sure to include both email addresses as recipients <3