Bow Skills workshop series: insurgent hormones: anticolonial eco-feminism & body autonomy
Thursday 13th November 2025 , 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Artist Taey Iohe and reproductive justice scholar Rishita Nandagiri invite you to a playful, critical, and deeply embodied workshop series.
Artist Taey Iohe and reproductive justice scholar Rishita Nandagiri invite you to a playful, critical, and deeply embodied workshop series. Together, they ask: Can we refuse the hormonal scripts we’ve inherited—and invent our own? Across online sessions and an in-person playdate, we’ll explore hormone recipes, doula imaginaries, reproductive storytelling, and collective care. Mixing Cli-fi, forensic history, feminist stories, and ecological resistance, this gathering offers space to imagine anti-colonial futures where bodies leak power, not control. Join us to re-script care, refusal, and intimacy—with a twist of sesame oil and a dose of rebellious joy.
Hormone Recipes #1: Body-Ethics (Online)
6:00pm – 8:00pm | Thursday 13th November 2025 | Online via Zoom
We begin by unmaking the ‘natural’ body. Through feminist eco-theory and speculative fiction, we explore how bodies are governed by extractive systems — of labour, medicine, and law. What if you could make your own hormones? We’ll write speculative formulas as a collective practice of refusal, joy, and re-mapping.
Hormone Recipes #2: Your Abortion Companion & Collectivity (Online)
6:00pm – 8:00pm | Wednesday 28th January 2026 | Online via Zoom
Who supports you when you need to abort something toxic—be it an idea, a role, a weight? This session explores collective doula care beyond the clinic. We’ll think through medical surveillance, reproductive justice, and sci-fi futures to imagine care infrastructures rooted in solidarity, slowness, and trust.
Anticolonial Eco-Feminists’ Playdate: Hormone Board Game (In-Person)
6:00pm – 8:00pm | Thursday 19th March 2026 | In-Person at Bow Arts Trust
An evening of embodied storytelling, board game design, and speculative play. We’ll ask: What laws have leaked into your home? What might hormone-mutants, matriarchal fungi, or queer family plants look like? Together we’ll prototype futures where care is a creative weapon—and reproductive autonomy, a shared horizon.
These workshops are open to anyone to attend but will particularly resonate with artists who are interested in Cli-fi, forensic history, feminist theory and ecological resistance. No previous experience required- come along and mind out!
In this workshop series, you will:
- Learn about other artists and academics’ practices and researches through a playful workshop series
- Be inspired to apply feminist eco-theory in various artistic practices and collaborations
- Explore different ways to imagine care infrastructures rooted in solidarity, slowness and trust
- Connect with other artists and practitioners with similar areas of interest
This workshop series includes two online sessions via Zoom (a link will be sent via email before the workshop) and an in-person session to be held in our courtyard room at Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ. The sessions could be booked individually but we highly recommend joining all three sessions to finish the school of insurgent hormones.
This workshop series emerges from Taey’s Leak Research, supported by Artangel’s Making Time programme, in partnership with King’s College London.
More about Taey Iohe
Taey is an artist, writer, and listener, born near the Han River and now based near the River Lea and Ching. Their work moves fluidly across sound, language, moving images, and collective practice, grounded in an eco-crip sense of belonging. Taey is drawn to what leaks—from bodies, histories, and living systems—seeing leakage as both a symptom of pain and a pathway to healing.
More about Dr Rishita Nandagiri
Rishita is a feminist researcher focusing on reproductive (in)justices in the Global Souths (broadly understood). She is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London. She likes tennis, fiction, & can sometimes be prevailed on to run a half-marathon to raise abortion funds.
About Bow Skills
Bow Arts seeks to support creative professionals at all stages of their careers. In 2015, Bow Arts launched Bow Skills in response to an artist survey which showed over 90% of practicing artists find it useful to receive further support outside formal education.
Bow Skills is a dynamic and relevant programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is informed by an artist steering group and open to all creative practitioners across London. The programme of talks, panel discussions, new skills labs and peer crits is open to all, with concession rates available to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists and key workers.
Access Information
The Bow Arts Trust office has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a seat near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
