Abundant Body

04/05/2026

🩵UPDATE ON TICKETS AVAILABLE🩵

Link to workshop info and bookings in comments

DETAIL OF PICTURE: blue and orange tile with title: Wheel of Consent for Qu**rs June 2026. CONTENT: Studio Take Care Brunswick Vic Aust on 19-21 June. DESCRIPTION: Noticing your wants, knowing they matter, and having the trust in yourself snd skills to communicate these.. is one area of the Wheel of Consent. The practices of the Wheel start with feeling it in your body and can become a tool and framework for so much more: how we are in ourselves, our relationships, our communities, our activism and more. 3 DOT POINTS: 5 spots left on sliding scale - option to pay in installments - spots under sliding scale are filled but please email us to register interest for cancellations. Q***r Inbody is Stella Topaz & Tia Cloher queerinbody@gmail.com On the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation

16/04/2026

Thanks for this article - refreshing cut through.
“If they’re struggling to find le***an community, it’s not because of the “infiltration” of trans women. It’s because of their own bigotry.”

Yesterday's decision to allow the Le***an Action Group an appeal to ban transgender women from their events is anything but a win, explains Lydia Jupp.
https://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/opinion-the-transphobia-of-the-le***an-action-group-will-not-save-them/241567

15/04/2026

35 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its findings.

35 years since this country was told what needed to change.

35 years of reports, promises, and selective memory.

The Commission made 339 recommendations to save lives. Not slogans. Not symbolism.

And still our people keep dying in prisons, police cells, watch houses, youth detention, and under systems built to punish pain instead of heal it.

Now they’re building more cells instead of building pathways to keep our kids out of them.

More money for prisons.
Less money for prevention.
More punishment.
Less healing.
More surveillance.
Less opportunity.

This is not a mystery.
It is not an accident.
It is not a lack of evidence.

It is what happens when Black deaths are treated as headlines instead of emergencies.

Our old people already spoke. Families already fought. Truth has already been handed to this nation.

So 35 years later, the question is not what needs to be done.

The question is: why is it easier to fund cages than free our children?

Big Blak Dog says it plain: Justice delayed for 35 years is violence maintained.

Remember the names. Back the families. Demand accountability.

14/04/2026

I so much enjoyed being invited to speak on this podcast and meeting the wonderful Malika Elizabeth Reese. What a fabulous voice of love, humour, advocacy, strength and the power of pleasure.
Hear from Malika and dive into her podcast Claiming Pleasure here!

Podcast Episode · Claiming Pleasure with Malika · 3 April · 46min

09/04/2026

Happy to share a new collaboration between myself and Tia Cloher - Q***r Inbody - bringing somatic-based workshops to Q***r community! Here’s our first and there will be more workshops, more topics, more co-creating. Link below. 🧡 Tia Cloher

27/01/2026

Pinch myself - I'm off to Berlin to co-teach Like A Pro with the wonderful Puma Höflich. Puma is a treasured peer, colleague and friend - their Bio is linked in comments. Like A Pro is training for professionals and it profoundly reshaped / expanded my work (and personal life) from when I first attneded in 2018. I've been immersed in it ever since! Would love for you to share if you have friends, colleagues, networks in Berlin!

Stella Topaz - Abundant Body

15/10/2025

Heading off for teaching Like A Pro in Naarm then Meanjin over October November so I have paused my booking calendar BUT I’m happy to receive booking enquiries via email or dm.. it may take me a couple of days to reply!

09/10/2025

There are 3 returning student places in each Like A Pro and not all are filled for the Australian trainings. Email interest to admin@schoolofconsent.org

09/10/2025

Last Call for Like A Pro in Australia, links in bio: Naarm, Melbourne 22-26 Oct and Meanjin, Brisbane 5-9 Nov. with me (Stella Topaz) and Marcia Baczynski.