Using accessible spaces, we facilitate online and in person events that inspire, empower and connect folx of all/no genders. Our events include speakers and storytellers, networking and support. After each gathering, we donate partial proceeds to a local initiative benefitting Vancouver’s marginalized communities.
We are striving to create a financially, socially and physically accessible environment for all. All our venues will have wheelchair accessibility, gender neutral bathrooms, and we offer sliding scale and a limited number of sponsored tickets. To offer any feedback on ways we can improve on inclusion, visit our Get Involved page.
Join us for an inclusive evening that explores the intricacies of what is often seen as a taboo topic. We’ll be discussing and redefining how we see and experience Attraction- and challenging the ways we typically interact with intimate energy in our lives.
Our goal is to give you a starting point- a brave space to explore different perspectives on the subject of Intimacy. We believe that reflecting on and creating conversation around what we want, and how we want it, opens us up and clears a pathway towards providing ourselves with what we need.
Grace Club is open to all genders, all expressions- tell your friends.
Lauren Sundstrom is a trans activist, mentor, public speaker and professional communicator. Having navigated Vancouver’s dating scene as a trans woman for the better part of 14 years, Lauren has picked up some interesting insights on intimacy and attraction. She’ll speak on double standards she has faced while dating cisgender, heterosexual men, deep shame around being trans, the internal struggle of disclosure, and where she stands on all of it today as an out and proud transgender woman. Navigating intimacy as a trans woman who’s attracted to men has been a challenge, and with the very real threat of violence always looming, Lauren has had to learn how to date, have sex and live her life with careful consideration and insights few other women have.
Meghan Campbell is a writer, speaker and coach who has been training in a professional capacity for over seven years. Through work that includes writing, group workshops and one-on-one coaching and consulting, she creates space for a safe and tethered exploration of life’s challenges—particularly the ones we’re forced to confront in circumstances beyond our control. Meghan began @meghantalks with an examination of her own struggles, emerging from this exploration with a desire to share hard-fought lessons. Her ethos is simple: that this world would be a better place if we were more willing to share our lived experiences and learnings, and it has become her life's work to do just that. She seeks to provide tools that allow us to do that for ourselves and for others with real, open and honest vulnerability. Meghan will be focusing on the importance of reconnecting with yourself after a relationship has ended. She'll be discussing what intimacy (and dating!) can entail when the relationship you're cultivating is the one you've got with yourself, exploring the newfound notion of what it means to be self-partnered. Please note: Meghan's talk will touch briefly upon abusive within intimate relationships.
Jules Webber is a Life Coach specializing in Intimacy, Feminine Energy, and Relationships. Jules works to help womxn feel free from the shame they’ve experienced by teaching them how to reconnect with their femininity, their radical self-acceptance, and the sense of empowerment they long for, but sometimes feel afraid of. After her carefully-curated life plan was suddenly derailed by the very early birth of her first daughter, Jules felt stalled in her creativity, her career, her sexuality, and her vulnerability. She learned the disempowering nature of connecting her value to the success or failure of her relationships, and began healing the only relationship she’d be in forever: the one with herself. Jules created a one-to-one coaching program, where she helps womxn reconnect with their feminine, maternal love for themselves. In addition to coaching, she is a mother, writer, and storyteller. Jules will be speaking on healing our relationship with the masculine and feminine, and how they are both amplified when we feel safe enough to be seen in our pleasure.
Savannah Erasmus is Cree-Metis and was raised in Kikino, AB, one of 8 recognized Metis land settlements in North America. Her intention as a journalist is to share positive stories of hardworking, creative, funny, political, stubborn, beautiful indigenous humans in Canada. Current media rarely tells these stories and she cannot wait to produce content that reflects her dream. Savannah also writes and performs political stand up routines on the unceded, traditional territory of the Musqeum, Squamish and Tsleil-Watuth nations in Vancouver, BC. Her intention with stand-up comedy is use laughter to dissect the colonial stereotypes that she has endured her entire life. She compares her life to her white boyfriend’s and his white privilege while also revealing emotional truths about herself and her life.
Partial proceeds from this event will be going to PACE Society. PACE Society is located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, BC, Canada. They offer low-barrier programming and support in order to serve Vancouver’s most marginalized populations; people who often fall through the cracks due to ineligibility for services that require a fixed address or drug and alcohol abstinence can access our services. In this respect, PACE is on the frontline of support for those in Vancouver who need it most. PACE is made up of dedicated, compassionate individuals who are committed to providing Sex Worker-led and driven programs and services to Sex Workers. PACE promotes safer working conditions by reducing harm and isolation through education and support. They believe that Sex Workers are valuable members of our community and are entitled to the same rights as all other human beings. They envision a future where all sex workers are free from the risk of violence, discrimination, social stigmas, and harms so they may enjoy the same rights as all other Canadian citizens including the rights to life, liberty, security of the person, and equal protection under the law.
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