Queer Sunday Cafe: Gender Upcycling
zo 11 okt
|OASE Rotterdam
Join us for Queer Sunday Cafe, Gender Upcycling: exploring how clothing can challenge ideas around gender and self-expression. We'll combine discussion with looking at gender, self-expression and sustainable fashion through simple changes in clothes that already exist.
Time & Location
11 okt 2026, 13:00 – 16:00
OASE Rotterdam, Schiehaven 15-A, 3024 EC Rotterdam, Netherlands
Guests
About the Event
This edition of Queer Sunday Cafe is special! We’re bringing a fun and activity theme, this time it's Gender Upcycling, as part of the Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week.
Clothing is often marketed and organised around the binary idea of gender, but it doesn't mean it needs to be inherently gendered. By adapting, changing and remaking pieces of clothing that we received or thrifted, we can reclaim and play with gender expression. We are going to discuss why this is important, who is deciding for us what we should wear and how, and how we can change our clothes to feel good with our look. At the same time, we will think about the problem: do we have to constantly buy new clothing to feel good? Why does this not sit right with us? How does this affect the environment?
Bring a second-hand, inherited or forgotten piece of clothing and we'll…