How do we change? How does change change us? How do we care for us through change? For eachother? How do we enjoy change?
How do bodymodification, kink, practices of pleasure and collective political organising become forms of embodied care, sustaining queer and trans lives? In what ways do body modifications, from tattoo to transition, shape collective understandings of health and hygiene as care? What kinds of spaces provide the broadest care—How can we make community health inseparable from creativity and consent? How do embodied ways of living reimagine care beyond the clinic, through rituals, touch, and shared practices and infused in moments of emergency? What can we learn from queer and trans communities in making care more radical, expansive, and deeply felt?
A roundtable gathering voices around the many ways queer / trans communities create care through embodied practices, exploring how pleasure and creativity shape care beyond the clinic. The spaces, physical or temporal that hold us, where here community health connects with practices of pleasure, and where care takes form in embodied ways.

★ Caro Ley ★ Berlin-based tattoo artist and educator whose practice of radically tender tattooing centers care, consent, and trauma awareness. With over a decade of experience, she works at the intersections of queer theory, body politics, and embodied art, creating spaces where tattooing becomes a tool for transformation and self-determination. Her perspective is vital to this talk for the ways it connects queer care with practices of transbodiment and collective healing.

★ Carmo Gê Pereira ★ Portuguese sexologist, researcher, and queer activist working since 2011 in sexual counseling, education, and community events. With a background in Communication and Gender Studies, and postgraduate training in Clinical Sexology, they are currently pursuing a PhD in Human Sexuality at the University of Porto. Their work brings a crucial perspective to this talk, connecting queer care with practices of embodiment, pleasure, and trans/non-binary self-determination.