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Empowering the bold, the creative, and the marginalized. Advocacy, education, and safe spaces for LGBTQIA+, GSRM, sex workers, & misfits. 🌈 AutonomyProject.org 501c3 grassroots nonprofit in Ohio.
DETAILS
📅 Date: February 19th
⏰ Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
📍 Location: Wicked Eden, 2912 South High ST, Columbus Ohio 43207
Door tickets available unless event sells out.
As always, Lavender Library prioritizes psychological safety, respect, and curiosity. Whether you’re revisiting Sister Outsider or encountering it for the first time, you’re warmly invited to join us.
This gathering is designed to be discussion-forward, accessible, and gentle while making space for hard, necessary conversations. You don’t need to be an academic, a theorist, or an expert- just someone willing to listen, think, and share in community. Come ready for thoughtful conversation!
Lorde’s writing is sharp, poetic, and deeply human - asking us to examine how systems of oppression shape our lives, and how honesty, care, and self-definition can become acts of resistance. These essays invite reflection not just on the world as it is, but on how we show up for one another.
Lavender Library is a queer book club centered on thoughtful reading, deep conversation, and shared reflection. In February, we’ll be reading Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde’s essential collection of essays on identity, power, anger, silence, difference, and survival.
DETAILS
Date: February 4th
Time: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: Wicked Eden, 2912 South High ST, Columbus Ohio 43207
Tickets must be purchased in advance, this event always sells out!
Tickets and More Info Here: secure.autonomyproject.org/event.jsp?ev...
The Autonomy Project's Wicked Munch is your invitation to a casual social gathering of like-minded kinksters, a welcoming space for new and returning community members to meet, connect, and learn more about our values and the more intimate details of our upcoming events. Join us!
Wicked Munch:
Curious about our Members Only events like "Bodice Ripper", but not sure how they work, or who to attend with? Or maybe you're just looking for an excuse to eat some good food in better company? Either way, we've got you covered, boo. Ain't no pre-party like a Munch pre-party!
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Cybertopia IS happening! Our information has the snowstorm hitting predominantly AFTER our event closes.
We will only cancel this event if there is a level 2 emergency or higher by 4pm tomorrow. We don't cancel for "maybe."
The revolution will not be stopped. 🫶🏻
The Autonomy Project will be on break from December 22nd through January 5th.
As a volunteer-run organization, rest is part of how we take care of each other. This time off gives our volunteers space to breathe, reconnect, and recharge after a full year of showing up for community.
Read the full love letter here: www.autonomyproject.org/from-the-exe...
Donate: Text RADICAL to 26989
We're the newest stewards of a Blessing Box! Come fill this box with non-perishable items to share with your neighbors. Take what you need, leave what you can.
Devil's Night Halloween Rave is SOLD OUT! 😱 BUT...
If you don't want to miss the next amazing party, check out our newsletter and events page at www.autonomyproject.org/events
and if you're curious about getting free admission, take a look at our volunteer opportunities at apvolunteer.com !
Ok folks, what's your class?
Did we really forget to share these amazing photos from the Cat Rave in August? 🤦🏻♀️ Oh well, better late than never!
Shots by the very talented FixedByFellx.
You’re not just invited. You’re summoned.
Devil’s Night is our queer Halloween rave for the beautifully unholy. Three DJs. Aerial performances. Candy. Chaos. Costumes. Bring your inner demon and come sweat it out on the dancefloor.
November 1st | 7:30pm-1am
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Supportive community is where we get to practice telling the truth.
Where “I’m fine” can become: “I need support,” “I’m overwhelmed,” “I’m human.”
And instead of rejection, you’re met with care.
Because here, you don’t have to carry it all alone. 💜
Tonight’s Wicked Munch is officially sold out! We’re at full capacity, which means there will not be any tickets available at the door.
If you weren’t able to snag a spot this time, don’t worry—we’ll have more munches and community nights coming up soon.
Who needs google maps when Mother Nature is happy to show you where to go?
Gay times. Immaculate vibes. Come hang out with us!
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So ask yourself: am I watching from the sidelines, or am I helping stir the pot?
Because together is the only way this works. 💜
Audiences are fun for concerts. But they don’t build community.
Community is alive when you participate: when you bring your energy, your presence, your creativity into the mix. That’s what makes our spaces safer, braver, and more alive.
kinks (and those of our partners), the better off we'll all be.
📅 Date: September 2nd
⏰ Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; doors open at 7:00 pm, class begins at 7:30 pm
🎫 Remember to register now, our classes have a pesky way of selling out.
Trauma-Informed Kink: Taught by Maeven Gray and PlaySmart!
Kink might not be therapy, but it can be pretty therapeutic (and hot to boot). When practised with care and intention, kink can be an incredible tool, and the more we're aware of how trauma can inform our
Wednesday, Sept 3 | 6–9PM
$5 donation (goes to our mutual aid fund)
Food truck by Gyro Hero
Weirdly fun icebreakers
Come be awkward, curious, brilliant, and totally yourself.
Register in advance, babes, the last one SOLD OUT.
AND we’re teaming up with @centraloutreach to bring sliding-scale STI testing to the Munch.
🩺 Get tested at their Columbus location before the event = FREE MUNCH ENTRY
🩺 Get tested at the event = your $5 admission refunded
Safe sex = hot.
Safe space = hotter.
Our Munch is back—and it’s bringing gyros and STI testing too.
Join us for a low-pressure, high-vibe night of queer connection, grilled meats, mutual aid, and actual community care. No scenes, no dress code, no weird power dynamics, just folks showing up to connect and build something better.
Big deck energy. Small deck energy. No deck energy. (we've got ones to loan!)
Doesn’t matter! Queer Magical Gatherings is for everyone.
No gatekeeping. No bad vibes. Just spells, snacks, and new queer friends.
Friday night, Aug 29th 7 to 11p. Wicked Eden. Bring your mana, bring your sparkle.
Your support did THIS! (Watch to the end for the kitty montage)
We raised $3k for @colonycats and our mutual aid fund with the Cat Rave, proving that collaboration is where the magic happens.
Want to keep helping?
🐈 colonycats.org/donate.html
🌈 autonomyproject.harnessgiving.org/campaigns/18...
What's coming up for the rest of August and into September! Lots of good stuff for your hearts and minds.
As always, register online at AutonomyProject.org. Check the event listing for more details.
