Class Details

Unmasking Lab w/ Amina | $25 March 21 | 1 -3 pm House of the Lorde | 2233 S Throop St. Chicago IL 60608 Unmasking Lab is a 6-month series that meets monthly for structured exploration of unmasking for neurodivergent and neuro-questioning folks. Join us to stim, accommodate, collaborate, and advocate ourselves into a more powerful way of being. Each session builds on the last but can also be attended individually. Session 1 | March 21: What Is Unmasking? Session 2 | April 25: Feeling (Interoception) Session 3 | May 23: Knowing (Neurodivergence) Session 4 | June 27: Doing (Accommodations) Session 5 | TBA: Expressing (Self-Advocacy) Session 6 | TBA: Resting "As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live. My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restrictions of externally imposed definition. Only then can I bring myself and my energies as a whole to the service of those struggles which I embrace as part of my living." —Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" Scholarships Two slots per class reserved for BIPOC and queer folks for whom finances are a barrier. Apply at houseofthelorde.com/scholarship Nobody turned away for lack of funds. Email info@embodydivergence.com Accommodations Participants will be asked to (COVID) mask while we unmask (neuronormativity). KN95s available in the space. HOTL is on the 5th floor of Mana Contemporary, accessible via ADA ramp and elevator. The space is wheelchair-accessible. About Amina Amina is a speech therapist and founder of Embody Divergence, a practice centered on somatic speech therapy and authentic expression arts. As an undiagnosed neurodivergent person from a family with diagnosed autistic and ADHD members, she brings professional expertise and lived experience of recovery from burnout and dissociation. She is currently writing a book on unmasking guided by Audre Lorde's essay, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power."