The Love Hub - Edinburgh These events relate not only to our ongoing research programme, but feature collaborations with key community partners. This series of collaborative events is based on The Love Tank’s annual collaboration with the Fringe Film Festival in London. The Love Hub Edinburgh is comprised of six events from 27 - 28 February and will take place at the Pleasance Cabaret Bar and Lighthouse, Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop. Please see individual events for more details, including timing, location and focus. A sign up for these events will be made available from mid-February on the Love Tank website, along with further information about accessibility and hybrid options (where possible). The Love Tank events page (external link) The Love Hub ProgrammeThursday 27 February6 - 8pm: The Activist Monologues Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: In 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.Friday 28 February10:00 - 11:30am: On the Pill: PrEP equity in the UK Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: Following 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?11:45am - 1:15pm: DoxyPEP: Take it or leave it? Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: Syphilis, 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.1:30 - 3:00pm: Dreaming Disability Futures Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: Imagine 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.3:15 - 4:45pm: Queering Abortion: Conversations Across Communities Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: What 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.6:30 - 8pm: We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: An Evening of Fugitive Poetry and Spoken Word Venue: Lighthouse Radical Bookshop,43-45 West Nicholson Street, EH8 9DB Description: 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” Feb 27 2025 - Feb 28 2025 The Love Hub - Edinburgh CBSS are working in partnership with our community partners The Love Tank to run a series of events that engage with key issues and ideas in HIV, sexual and reproductive justice, disability justice and social justice.
The Love Hub - Edinburgh These events relate not only to our ongoing research programme, but feature collaborations with key community partners. This series of collaborative events is based on The Love Tank’s annual collaboration with the Fringe Film Festival in London. The Love Hub Edinburgh is comprised of six events from 27 - 28 February and will take place at the Pleasance Cabaret Bar and Lighthouse, Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop. Please see individual events for more details, including timing, location and focus. A sign up for these events will be made available from mid-February on the Love Tank website, along with further information about accessibility and hybrid options (where possible). The Love Tank events page (external link) The Love Hub ProgrammeThursday 27 February6 - 8pm: The Activist Monologues Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: In 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.Friday 28 February10:00 - 11:30am: On the Pill: PrEP equity in the UK Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: Following 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?11:45am - 1:15pm: DoxyPEP: Take it or leave it? Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: Syphilis, 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.1:30 - 3:00pm: Dreaming Disability Futures Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: Imagine 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.3:15 - 4:45pm: Queering Abortion: Conversations Across Communities Venue: The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Description: What 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.6:30 - 8pm: We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: An Evening of Fugitive Poetry and Spoken Word Venue: Lighthouse Radical Bookshop,43-45 West Nicholson Street, EH8 9DB Description: 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” Feb 27 2025 - Feb 28 2025 The Love Hub - Edinburgh CBSS are working in partnership with our community partners The Love Tank to run a series of events that engage with key issues and ideas in HIV, sexual and reproductive justice, disability justice and social justice.
Feb 27 2025 - Feb 28 2025 The Love Hub - Edinburgh CBSS are working in partnership with our community partners The Love Tank to run a series of events that engage with key issues and ideas in HIV, sexual and reproductive justice, disability justice and social justice.
