The Faerie Gatherings
A community focused on creating a gentle and safe space to nurture creativity and healing through poetry workshops, storytelling, bookclubs and shared self-exploration.
This is a supportive community rooted in empathy, empowerment and connection. A place where everyone, especially women & femmes, queer folks and BIPOC creatives can feel safe, held and seen.
Let’s build this space together. Let’s gather, heal and create magic and community.
Meet the Team
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Co-Founder
Lucia Jimenez (she/her) is a Costa Rican fairy, whimsical healer, and co-founder of The Faerie Gatherings. She is a certified trauma-informed wellness coach and guidance facilitator. She works as a reintegration guide, helping clients reintegrate the parts of themselves that they have deemed unworthy. She empowers them to embrace themselves fully, honoring and normalizing the complexity and messiness that is being human. Lucia brings her expertise to these poetry workshops by nurturing vulnerability and guiding participants through the waves of their emotions to overcome creativity blocks.
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Co-Founder
Isra Cheema (she/they) is a queer, Pakistani, spiritual Muslim witch, and poet. She is the founder of Queer Muslims of ATX and co-founder of The Faerie Gatherings. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from Texas State University and teaches writing at St. Edward’s University. Their poetry explores themes of identity in relation to the intersection of culture, religion, gender, sexuality, marriage, divorce, and much more. Isra brings her expertise to these poetry workshops by guiding participants through the art and craft of poetry, blending technical skills with creative expression.
Upcoming Events
The Healing Through Poetry Book Club
August 23
7 PM - 9 PM
We’re so excited to open sign-ups for the next meeting of our poetry book club in collaboration with Future Front Texas! The Healing Through Poetry book club is a soft space to read, reflect, and reconnect through words.
Each month, we’ll gather around a poetry collection by a queer BIPOC writer and explore how poetry can help us heal, grow, and dream in community.
August’s book: Plantains and Our Becoming by Melania Luisa Marte—This poetry collection uses themes of self-love, identity, nationalism, displacement, generational trauma and ancestral knowledge to uproot stereotypes and examine the legacies of colonialism and racism, but never shies away from highlighting the beauty and joy that comes from celebrating who you are and where you come from. Melania Luisa Marte is an American writer, poet, and musician from New York.
Healing Through Poetry
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