I am one of the three lead organisers of the Queer Trans Bodywork Collective.
Building embodied care as a collective and community resource.
WHO WE ARE
Kars Dodd
Home Body Massage
Kars Dodds (they/them) is a queer, trans massage therapist whose practice creates collaborative spaces for queer, trans and disabled people to receive care and resource themselves through rest. They are currently studying Advanced Clinical Massage Therapy, developing further specialism in chronic pain management. As an American migrant, their practice is informed by the realities of navigating the world as a queer and trans person and the need for spaces in which bodies can experience greater safety and ease.
LXO Cohen
Touch and Justice
Lxo Cohen (she/they) is a queer trans bodyworker specialising in lomi-informed relational bodywork, alongside working in club welfare and safeguarding and as an access support worker within the arts. Within the collective, she is particularly interested in fundraising and organisational development, helping build the partnerships, funding strategy and infrastructure needed for the work to grow sustainably beyond short-term project funding.
Mara Nicola
Somatics and Bodywork
Mara Nicola (they/them) is a queer, trans and disabled somatic coach and bodyworker whose practice is grounded in politicised somatics and lived experience. Their 1:1 work supports queer, trans and disabled community members to explore systemic conditioning and hypervigilance and reconnect with their bodies on their own terms. Growing up in post-communist Romania, where collective survival often depended upon mutual support, informs Mara’s interest in moving from isolated models of individual healing towards interdependence and sustainable community care.