Description
Artivism—where art meets activism—is a powerful tool for LGBTQI+ advocacy, resistance, liberation, and visibility.
This session features Royal Islam presenting a collective work from a Bangladeshi Artivism Project, supporting queer youth living with HIV and stigma through collaborative art. Sharan Bala discusses how creative expression challenges intersex stigma, medicalization, and erasure through visual art and storytelling. Jarko De Witte van Leeuwen shares on his The Growing Wall of Love, often exhibited in churches, uniting 3,300+ people from 94 countries in a message of safety, equality, and visibility. Suleiya Abdi shares how music becomes a safe space for sharing lived experiences.
Through their works, art becomes an act of change
Suleiya Abdillah
Jarko De Witte van Leeuwen