Let's Talk About Death in Relation to Gender... At POKE!

Our gendered selves and bodies impact every facet of our living life, and in this, what role do they play when considering our mortality? This conversive, inclusive collaboration birthed across the span of two years, through meetings at various charming Vancouver cafés, where a shared curiosity about death and dying found alignment with friendship, queer theory and intersectional feminisms.

Please join us for a conversation exploring three new questions we’ve come up with specifically relating to gender and death alongside an original Death Conversation Game facilitated session. This is a circular space where, through the question prompts, we all have the opportunity to share - and/or listen - in a space co-created for ease and accessible comfort.

We welcome you to join if you are new or returning to conversations on any of these subjects!

“When I was diagnosed with cancer, my relationship to my gender changed, but in ways that were so outwardly subtle I’m the only one who’s noticed. I’ve spent a large majority of this year actively getting to know the me who is eternal… Because of this, where I once felt genderful, I now feel something closer to genderless, and it’s a wildly expansive feeling. Each time I’m present with it, I feel eternal, cherished, and held to the warm chest of infinity.”

- Renown queer poet Andrea Gibson (1975-July 14th 2025)

ABOUT DEATH CONVERSATION GAME
Death Conversation Game provides a set of 69 question cards linked to an expansive range of subjects relating to death intended to stimulate individual and group pondering, sharing, and listening. Find more information about Death Conversation Game

This event offering is in collaboration with Poke Comunity Acupuncture and as part of The DCG X 3UP Project.

ABOUT THE LOCATION
Poke Community Acupuncutre is a space which upholds the importance of healing within community.

Eight zero gravity recliner chairs are offered in a large, quiet, accessible, and soothing space. The temperature can drop a bit as the seasons change; there will be light blankets and small pillows for use, please bring what ever else you might feel is needed for your cosyness (blankets, sweaters, warm socks, journal, writing materials, etc). Tea will be provided.

With a continued commitment to unlearning and learning again and again, we aim to offer a collaborative safe(r) space to individually share in respectful an inclusive intersectional environment valuing equity and welcoming of all identities: LGBTQQIP2SAA+, IBPOC, d/Disabled and diverse in race, ethnicity, class, education, and age.

Mask-optional, allowing individuals to choose whether to wear a mask or not while in the space. Please pass on joining if you have any contagious symptoms.

TIERED SLIDING SCALE
Please be mindful to select a price that best suits your financial standing. It is respectfully yours to determine what price feels best for you in order to comfortably attend this conversation. We aim to include all that are interested in joining the conversation, if you would like to attend and the price is unattainable please reach out to the organizer and we will do our best to find you a seat either here or in a future event.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge that this event is created through and will be located on the traditional and ancestral unceded territories of the honorable Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people.

"No one heals in isolation." - Poke Community Acupuncture

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