Meg Foley

What does parenting q***rly mean to you? Their launch was supported by management from Logan Cryer, a Philadelphia-based artist, curator, and administrator.

Q***r Parent Convenings are a shared space to reflect about the intersections of q***rness, pregnancy, gender, s*x, family-building and belonging. We are organizing a series of Q***r Parent Convenings as part the Blood Baby project to share space and to reflect about these intersections of q***rness, pregnancy, gender, s*x, family-building and belonging. What: The Q***r Parent Convenings are an op

portunity to connect and share with other q***r and trans parents and to explore collectively and how we shape our families and some of what parenting q***rly means to you, particularly in regards to gender and s*x in family-building. Participants will be able to learn somatic and improvisational practices in order to newly consider and process parenting experiences. These conversations and energy exchange are at the core of the creative formation of the overall Blood Baby performance project. When: happening semi-regularly 2021-2024, with exact schedule determined by the facilitators and participants.

-The first q***r gestational parents group is happening Fall 2021

-The first q***r parents group will also be virtual and will begin early 2022, exact date TBD. Where: Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Los Angeles, and online - follow @_bloodbaby for updates. Who: The facilitation team for the first convenings group is:

• Pati Garcia is a q***r latinx certified Sexological Bodyworker and Certified Professional Midwife. Pati has been involved in revolutionary somatic approaches to feminist body autonomy cultivation from a latinx gender non conforming perspective since 2004.
• Paloma N Irizarry is a Boricua birthworker, performer, creator, and facilitator who feels at home in the unknown and collective problem solving based in Philadelphia.
• Darcelle Lewis is a q***r and non-binary feminist and mental health activist from Trinidad & Tobago.
• Michèle Steinwald is a Canadian, feminist, DIY, artist-centered, pseudo-forensic, embodied, community-driven, cultural organizer working in the US. The Q***r Parent Convenings are conceptualized by Meg Foley, a q***r dance artist, educator, and parent who creates performances and somatic-based events, and are managed by Philadelphia-based parent, educator, and artist Linnea deRoche. Philadelphia-based for over 15 years, Meg co-runs The Whole Shebang, a studio and experimentation space for artists and facilitators. Meg is the project leader for Blood Baby.

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For the past 20 years I have made performance projects with radical self-determination as subject, crafting body-based explorations of identity, belonging, and time from a q***r perspective. In a loving tumble with formalism in dance and what constitutes performance and influenced by my identity as a q***r mom in a trans family, I work on a continuum of research that centers the 24hr body and asks how identity is occupied: an all-the-time, ever-shifting self, a sacred site, a portal, a prism. I danced wherever I was everyday at 3:15pm for four years, including during childbirth. In collaboration with thought and movement partners, I developed action is primary, an improvisational performance practice that trains a hyper-articulate interiority in direct dialogue with shape/form/feeling/being as choreography that has become the core materiality of my practice. This daily dance and action is primary research culminated in Action is Primary (2016), a visual and performance exhibition of shared practice and improvisational research undertaken by Kristel Baldoz, Marysia Stokłosa, Annie Wilson, and myself and curated by Perel. In 2019 I began using fabric, foam, and carpet to extend embodied space through interactive objects and installations, affording somatic life to objects and “feeling back” on and through my body, which has developed into and informed my current project, Blood Baby. Blood Baby explores my experience of q***r motherhood and the intersecting experiences of q***r parenting, pregnancy, gender, s*xuality, and fellowship. And also, rocks. Lots of rocks, and body heat, and spirituality, and thinking about how we build - or gestate - ourselves on the daily. :)

A rigorous body-based researcher, my choreographic practice is rooted in sensorial investigation, questions of how interiority meets shape and architecture, and organizing how this accumulates and evolves over time to change energetic space and how we perceive the environment. I build intricate scores of often competing tasks, navigated by the performer’s own interior rhythms. To generate movement and scores: I track choreographies and rhythms already present in the world as frames to enter; I work from imagery or the tactile experience of other materials, seeking familiars in objects assumed without presence; I usher associative, sensorial threads, considering movement as poetic reframing. My dances have been presented by TanzFabrik Potsdam, Art Stations Foundation at Malta Festival, Prague Quadrennial, SummerWorks Festival (Toronto), LA Performance Practice, DraftWork at Danspace Project, CATCH! at Invisible Dog Art Center, Philadelphia Contemporary, and Philadelphia Fringe Festival (curated). A 2012 Pew Fellow in the Arts, my visual art work has been shown at Moore College of Art and Design, Pilot+Projects, and Vox Populi. Grants include: Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Independence Fdtn, Dancemakers Centre for Creation, and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant. I have taught across the US and abroad, most recently in the graduate UCLA World Arts & Cultures/Dance dept. I also co-direct The Whole Shebang with my partner Carmichael Jones, a space that provides a South Philly home for the practices of working artists and teachers. It is intended as a space for experimentation, energy collision, and supported trying-out-of-things. You can find out more about Shebang at thewholeshebangphilly.com.

11/14/2025

ZINES! POSTERS! Reflections on q***r parenting and invitations for you to do the same! ❤️‍🔥

TOMORROW SAT 11/15 Meg will be at the Resource Fair with handing out ZINES and to share a new evolution of Q***r Parent Convenings, coming to Philly in 2026.

Come say hi and grab a zine! 💖 it's full of incredible art - and heart! 🫀🌀- by incredible people! 🫶🏻

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07/11/2025

TWO MORE DAYS to catch Blood Baby: Touch Library and Primordial at A.P.E. gallery on Main St in Northampton. What a dream team to work with and what a necessary and rejuvenating trip back into the project, especially in the shadow of the world's oldest mountain range (them old, ancestor bodies) and in the thick of so much vibrant and visible q***r and trans family-building efforts! Touch Library went deep and found new forms! 💖🍃🌊

Up tonight 7/11 til 8pm
Saturday 12-5pm
Sunday 12-3pm

✨Oh such wonderful Touch Librarians, stewarding the space! The lusciousness of sharing the somatic object practice (grrl loves a heavy ass pile) ! 🪨 Oh the joy and insights of Primordial and Touch Library together! 🫀🫁🦠🌄🌀 Oh Communion, on the farm hill, in a teaching garden, under the setting sun, holding rocks from ancient continental collisions and fractured opportunities, thinking about how - feeing! - how we are built!

Grateful and starry eyed. ❤️‍🔥🌌

Photos: .bove as touch librarian in the gallery; the ancient rock called Devil's Football and its lush textures; install shots of Primordial and Touch Library at A.P.E. ; witness in the Touch Library, getting started; oh that's a good pile; the Communion performance site at Bramble Hill Farm.

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07/06/2025

Getting ready for Communion tonight at Bramble Hill Farm in Amherst. So grateful to be here and to be on this land, with these old old hills that are also mountains and amongst the birds and trees as Communion ponders how we're formed and the specialness of growth and collective being. Bringing my rocks to your rocks and back. 🌱🌌

Tonight 7/6 at 8pm
Thank you A.P.E. for making it happen. 💖

07/06/2025

from : Have you had a chance to check out our latest ARC 2025 project? Primordial + Touch Library (from the minds of Meg Foley and Carmichael Jones) will be on view through July 13th!

Gallery Hours for July 8-13:
12-5PM

Blood Baby says :)., we're so dang happy to be here, come on through, Northampton and surrounds. Everyone we've met is amazing so we're pretty sure you will be too. Let's get into some art-making, deeply feeling play and reflections on the nature of body-building, family- and self-building, rocks, time and belonging. 🥰🌌

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05/06/2025

Feeling this vibe. ❤️‍🔥 Playing with rock embodiment, together. 🪨🫀 and gorgeousnezz in Carpet Womb at . What a delight it was to be cramped in that corner of their garden, supported by their stellar team, creating our outdoor gay disco den.

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12/31/2024

Last call for 2024 🌀 - wanna donate in 2024? there is still time - please check out this amazing photo journal of Blood Baby's journey - y'all are incredible https://mailchi.mp/4c1ac5337184/last-call-for-2024

12/19/2024

The Future is Now / Let's not let the dystopian nightmare dim our sparkle 🌅 - https://mailchi.mp/fe96593c6dc0/the-future-is-now-lets-not-let-the-dystopian-mess-dim-our-sparkle

11/19/2024

Posted • Ohio friends and those Ohio-Adjacent! :) Come see about us THIS WEEK....

That one woman rock talkshow, featuring Meg the geology enthusiast is coming to Athens this week... will be in the house to perform and talk artist parenting with fellow Self Adjacent artists. 😍

//Nov 20 artist panel discussion with Kate Gilmore, , Sarah Sudhoff, and Emilia White, moderated by Prof of Art History Jennie Klein✨

//Nov 21 Communion performance with me, you, and all the layers of years we walk upon and with 🌀🪨🌌 , loving sharing time space with a performance of Courtney Kessel's In Balance With, a beautiful, material meditation on parenting and growth ⏳

//Remnants of Communion performance and Primordial by Meg and will on view through March 23, 2025 🌄

More info at link in bio

✨Graciously hosted by .design as part of Self Adjacent at the , curated by and

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Thank you for supporting this trip!

11/08/2024

Take Care of Yourself. Check on Your People. - a check in, some sharing, and a fall round up https://mailchi.mp/5058dd764492/take-care-of-yourself-check-on-your-people

07/30/2024

Thank you to Caitlin Green / for this beautiful writing about the Philadelphia presentation of "Communion," part of the currently-touring "Blood Baby" project. Link to the whole mama jama in comments.

Communion is indeed an experiment enacted in community.

Such a beautiful capture, Caitlin, of something deeply felt yet often hard to catch in words! Thank you! 🙌🏻🌌💖

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Image ID: a small group of people sitting inside a dome- shaped scaffolding structure in an outdoor courtyard. The photo is taken from above and looking down at the group.

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06/28/2024

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You , to everyone who was a participant, witness, sponsor. To everyone who touched this project, you are appreciated and in our hearts ❤️‍🔥

These are a few shots from Blood Baby's Pride Happenings from Communion, Primordial, Touch Library, Q***r Parent Convenings, and Carpet Womb
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To check out all the amazing humans who worked on this project visit the project website https://paintedbride.org/projects/blood-baby/

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