Projects & Workshops

I have had the honor of creating workshops and developing projects for internationally award wining director Vivienne Li, BIWOC* Rising, GLADT e.V., Feminist Film Organizations, Deutsche Welle Akademie, Engagement Global GmbH: Glen ReNew, Women* Writing Berlin Lab, Disobedient Circumstances Fem DJ Collective, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Colectivo Janainas, Saddleback College, Cerritos College and California State University San Marcos.

Upcoming

Feel free to click the images below for workshop descriptions.

Support f(x) Awareness Presents: Club Awareness and Safety Educational Video

The video seeks to represent distress signs for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC partiers through a funny and interactive Clubline (airline) instructional video. By informing the club community about what to look out for, clubbers can protect themselves and each other. Let’s create a fully present space where we are fully free, united, and safe because we made it that way.

Check out the video here!!!

A WWBL collaborative Project and Publication with director Viv Li of Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest

Our relationship with our breasts can be complicated. From maturity to maternity, to liberation and repression, women’s bodies and the portrayal of breasts have been everything from beautiful high art to rampant sexualized fetishization. For some, it’s a representation of femininity and growing into adulthood. For others, it’s a reminder of your gender and imposed sexualization. Culturally, some are told to cover up, or the bigger the better, or to tape them down. Some of us hate our breasts or love them. Some of us don’t want any or are waiting for the appointment. But all of us have had to come to terms with them in one way or another. Or maybe we haven’t. That’s exactly what this publication is about. The complicated overlapping and complexities of breasts on our identity and journey.

Read more about the project here!!!

Past Projects and Workshops

Winner of Best Hip Hop Music Video for International Music Video Awards
(Set Design 2022)
Four queer BIPOC artists – Breezy, Allia Sadeghipour, GodXXX Noirphiles and Arielle Cottingham – invite you to »The First Potluck,« a four-part living-room church service to be held at the Night School Berlin stage of Pop-Kultur in the Kulturbrauerei. 
(Project 2021)
Modes of being creative, what we do with our texts and artworks, and in which forms we publish them are political. Discussions about this aspect are missing in many creative spaces. Zinefest aims to fill this gap.
(Project 2021)
We are quick to go out into this glorious Berlin summer, snap photos of adventures, and post online as if we weren’t completely dependent on the thing in our hands: Our E-dentity.
(Workshop 2021)
Our dear participants share multiplying perspectives on subjectivity, intersectionality, and social transformation, in the midst of uncertainty.
(Panel Discussion 2020)
Breezy, rapper, producer, and professional emotionalist, is joined by Allia Sadeghipour, author, poet, and cat whisperer, in a multidisciplinary musical performance encompassing thematic representations of identity, gender, and mental health in 2020.
(Project 2020)
Let these ladies inspire you with their experience, knowledge and a huge passion for writing. During our Q&A you will get the chance to ask anything you always wanted to know about creative writing.
(Panel Discussion 2020)
We asked our community of women* writers to share their thoughts on the current state of affairs. This zine presents a diverse global perspective on what it means to be a woman* during a pandemic.
(Publication Project 2020)
Corona has inevitably prodded at all aspects of our psyche and social architecture, causing us to re-calibrate and refashion our behavior and understanding of selves and society. Delve into the minds of some of your favorite artists, who, through their creativity give voice to these times.
(Project 2020)
Gatekeepers of the industry homogenize gender and create tantalizing scenarios to attract members of the LGBTQ community but leave us feeling empty and often disconnected from the characters on the screen.
(Workshop 2020)
We are a collective of scientists, teachers, and healers who are helping people experiencing issues with self-concept, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and many other illnesses and inhibitors understand their physiological responses and change these responses.
(Workshop 2020)
In this workshop, the participants will learn public speaking, panel, and interviewing techniques including rhetorical oration, argumentative and fallacious analysis, and journalistic ethics and accountability, among others. 
(Workshop 2020)
The ability to reflect on moments and lessons is vital to the process of moving forward, establishing foundational motivational strategies and values, and creating global connections through performances. 
(Performance & Workshop 2020)
In this writing workshop, we will discuss the roles that are currently “available” to us and dissect the gender tropes and stereotypes perpetuated by the film industry. We will deconstruct these representations and ourselves in order to develop stories and characters that are entertaining and engaging, because they are True.
(Masters Class & Workshop 2019)

Writer’s Lab of Los Angeles Creative writing workshops
(Creator & Teacher)
2016-2017
California, U. S. A.

“Major and Occupational” Workshop
Saddleback College, March 2016
Presented the “What Can You Do with a Degree in English?” workshop for incoming Freshmen introduced in the English major and occupational pathway. Participated in Q&A panel with other professional colleagues allowing students to ask panel members questions with relations to their specific field.

WOW Student Workshop Week
Saddleback College, January 2016
Presented the “Making a Good Impression” workshop assisting students in drafting statements of purpose and diversity statements for UC and CSU transfer applications.

Student Workshop Week
Cerritos College, January 2016
Presented the “Teaching Tips, Tricks, and Techniques to Emphasize Individual Student Accountability and Responsibility” workshop teaching teachers and students pedagogical methods to emphasize individual student accountability and responsibility. Such methods including the ability to teach students how to identify and correct grammatical and syntactical mistakes, keeping students motivated to complete class readings, as well as learning how to appropriately revise and edit their own essays. 

Student Centered Community Development Program
Lifeline Education Charter High School, September 2014
Established and coordinated Career Development events, Anti-Bullying Program, and Performing Arts club.

Master’s Thesis Conference
CSU San Marcos, April 2014
Presented Master’s thesis “Human (Re)Defined: The Problematic (Dis)Connection between Bodily Representations and Consciousness. A Personal Narrative of Literary Theories and Texts” redefining “human” beyond the obsolete paradigm of gendered humanity to include all consciousness without conformity to bodily representations.

College Reading and Learning Association Training Workshop
CSU San Marcos, September 2013 & January 2014
Presented the “Hands Off My Paper” workshop training writing center tutors the Socratic questioning method allowing students to identify patterns in their own writing.

Literature in Translation Conference
CSU San Marcos, September 2013
Presented “My Dear, My Love, My Walnut: The Pains of Translating Persian Poetry” thesis translating and understanding cultural contexts of Persian poetry.

Composition and Rhetoric Conference
CSU San Marcos, January 2013
Presented “Please Won’t You Participate” thesis analyzing and discussing how to improve student participation and involvement in college courses.

Transatlantic Literature Conference
CSU San Marcos, November 2012
Presented “Colman, Bannister, and the Financial Motivations of the Banking Bastard” thesis analyzing how Colman represents the financiers and the hybridity of the trans-Atlantic culture.

Single Subject Technology Workshop
CSU San Marcos, September 2011/January 2012/September 2012
Presented the “How to Incorporate Video Games in the Classroom” workshop assisting teachers in utilizing technology and video games into English common core curriculum.