THELOVEHUB on the road: Edinburgh Edition
We're leaving London! We're packing our bags, rolling up the flags, and jumping on the train to Edinburgh!
For two days only, The Love Tank joins forces with The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society for a one-off Love Hub special in Edinburgh.
Six FREE events on themes that include activism, mutual-aid, care, performance, research, disability justice, abortion justice, and so much more.
Events take place at Pleasance Cabaret Bar, and Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop.
Book free spaces via the Outsavvy links below. Please only reserve a space if you're intending to come!
The Love Hub is part of a wider series of events organised by the Centre for Biomedicine Self and Society -
COVID safety information: the venues we're using are ventilated, have HEPA air filters, and CO2 monitors (to measure air quality) - but that doesn't make them totally COVID, flu or common-cold safe. We'll have free masks available and request that masks are worn where possible. Got a cough, cold, or flu-like symptoms? Please take a break until your symptoms have subsided: many of us in our communities have to do everything we can not to get sick, including those of us with disabilities or compromised immune systems.
Book your tickets!
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The Activist Monologues: Spoken word on loud actions
THURSDAY 27TH FEBRUARY 2025, AT 6PM, FREE
The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJIn a world where activism is increasingly needed, The Activist Monologues kicks-off a mini-series of events, shaped by The Love Tank’s Love Hub series. Quick-fire monologues on the theme of activism provide thought-provoking and challenging perspectives, followed by a sofa discussion from the monologists.
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The Other Blue Pill: Equity of PrEP access in the UK
FRIDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2025, AT 10AM, FREE
The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJFollowing the success of the highly rated 'The Other Blue Pill', podcast host Phil Samba brings together a panel to discuss differences in HIV PrEP access across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If PrEP is now available in all countries in the UK, why does equity remain an issue and what can be done about it?
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Choosing DoxyPEP: Risk, dosing & tackling resistance
FRIDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2025, AT 11.45AM, FREE
The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJSyphilis, be damned! DoxyPEP is a tool that provides flexible coverage to prevent bacterial STIs. This interactive workshop is an opportunity to learn more about the benefits of DoxyPEP and to consider – by working together as ‘risk calculators’ - how collective dosing strategies might help challenge stigma and antimicrobial resistance.
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Disability Futures: Dreaming crip & disability justice
FRIDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2025, AT 1.30PM, FREE
The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJImagine a world moved by abolition and crip care, where mutual aid and transformative practice shatter a carceral medical industrial complex, prisons, and locked wards. Bringing to life objects, artefacts, sights, and sounds, this panel invites a group of queer disabled activists to discuss what disability justice means to them, and how, together, we might build a world which isn’t just liveable for some, but irresistible for all.
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Queering Abortion: Conversations Across Communities
FRIDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2025, AT 3.15PM, FREE
The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJWhat does it mean to queer abortion? Through a panel discussion and small group Together, we will reflect on where we’ve come from, where we are now and how we can work towards more inclusive, community-led approaches to abortion care. We’ll explore questions such as: How can peer- and community-led approaches support people seeking abortion? What can abortion care learn from HIV, PrEP, and disability activism? This session is open to anyone with an interest in abortion and community engagement. It aims to create space for shared learning, open dialogue and practical steps for action.
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Fugitive Poetry: An evening of rebellious stories
FRIDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2025, AT 6.30PM, FREE
Lighthouse Radical Bookshop,43-45 West Nicholson Street, EH8 9DBWe Do This ‘Til We Free Us: The Love Tank invites you to an evening of rebellious stories, poetry, monologues, and prose. An evening of words that beat and hum, that move worlds and are world-making. Words that step on necks. Words that set us free. Words that whisper – “We have nothing to lose but our chains”
