Queer Expression’s summer arm-wrestling fundraiser. Credit: Photo via Queer Expression St Pete/Facebook

In just two years, the tenacious organizers of Queer Expression St. Pete have created a fiercely safe place to be nonbinary in the Bay area.

Defiantly not nonprofit (the grassroots organization believes that 501c3s neutralize radical practices in exchange for mass palatability), Queer Expressions is entirely volunteer-run and leans the work of students and working class people in its mission to introduce community “to the restorative effects of contemplative and creative practices.”

It also hosts fundraisers like last June’s arm-wrestling competition.

At its substance-free community space launched over the summer, Queer Expressions hosts its next Let Kids Be Kids play sessions for gender nonconforming kiddos and queer/trans families next Saturday, Dec. 7 and again on Jan. 18 and Feb. 1.

Adults looking to connect and unwind can take part in Sip ‘N Stitch nights, which happen this week on Monday, Dec. 2, and again on Dec. 16, Jan. 13 and Jan. 27.

More information is at queerexpression.org.

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