Photograph of Sam Simpson (left), Genevieve Lamoureux (centre) & Conor Foran (right), all pictured smiling to camera.

Photograph of Sam Simpson (left), Conor Foran (centre) & JJJJJerome Ellis (right), all pictured smiling to camera. Image taken at PHI following a visit to the Habitat Sonore to listen to Jessica Moss’s meditative solo album Unfolding

Heartfelt thanks to Genevieve Lamoureux & all the organisers, contributors & workshop facilitators for making the 1st Voice & Media Festival a reality. The warmth, dynamism & innovation within the stammering community is truly heartwarming #stammeringgain #transformativebelonging

Central to stammering-affirming shared world building is the liberatory power of cultivating both a ‘fierce no’ to fluency & a ‘fabulous yes’ to dysfluency & what dysfluency disrupts that is desirable for us all #transformativebelonging 🌊🌊🌊

Photograph taken as everyone was arriving of the holding PowerPoint slide entitled ‘Towards a world that stammers’ with three empty seats laid out for the panelists in the foreground

Photograph of Sam Simpson giving the opening introductions. Sam, a white woman in her fifties with grey, bobbed hair, is standing at the lectern & holding a microphone in her right hand. The holding PowerPoint slide is pictured behind her & the heads of members of the audience can be seen in the foreground

Photograph of Joshua St Pierre, a young white man, standing at the lectern & presenting. The title PowerPoint slide is pictured to the right of him behind three chairs prepared for a later panel discussion

Panellists (from left to right) Joshua St Pierre, Sam Simpson and Patrick Campbell are sat in chairs around a small circular table with three bottles of water on it. Behind them is the title PowerPoint slide: “Towards a World that Stammers” - white letters on a pink background

What a life-giving evening @citylit.bsky.social in conversation with Josh St Pierre! Wonderful to see such a great turn out & level of interest. Very much enjoyed the thought-provoking Q&A questions, buzz in the gallery over drinks & welcoming new faces to the community #transformativebelonging

Dynamic Open Space today exploring Josh St Pierre’s three modes of belonging: www.redefiningstammering.co.uk/dysfluency-i... Consensus on the liberatory power of cultivating both a ‘fierce no’ to fluency & a ‘fabulous yes’ to dysfluency & what it disrupts that is desirable #transformativebelonging

Looking forward to continuing interdisciplinary conversations on this platform about #stammeringpride & the generative potential of #stammering, what stammering culture can teach us about ourselves & the world, & stammering-affirming therapy practices that foster #transformativebelonging