Workshops • On Beauty — Writing Workshop, Letters to Political Prisoners

This workshop functions as a writerly laboratory where physical experience becomes the ground for textual practice. Through brief guided somatic prompts, participants will translate sensation directly into language and examine how political and legal regimes — especially authoritarian ones — shape our relationship to the body and to beauty as a social construct. In doing so, the session highlights the counter-intuition that embodied presence can generate autonomy, independent decision-making, and resistance to imposed narratives. The workshop does not require open space and can be held in a regular classroom with students working at their desks.