so very virtual - 06.11.2025

poetry, publishing, and more pride 🏳️‍🌈

so very virtual is a free weekly-ish newsletter featuring opportunities, events, and resources that are fully virtual, remote, or hybrid with an online option.

🔍 Please look into events and opportunities to decide whether they are right for you. Send any concerns to theeclarel@substack.com.

📋 To submit a listing, fill out this form.

📚 If you’re new, start with this pandemic resource roundup.

Action Alerts 🔔

Steps to support a better world

• Tell the CDC we need broad access to vaccines.

• Take this Accessing Long COVID Virtual Healthcare survey.

• Sign onto this Signing Cops Will Not Save Us, Community Power Will letter.

• Sign People’s CDC’s Pledge to Protect our Patients.

Virtual Events 🎟

Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option

• Open Studios with AORTA — Thursday, June 12th from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET // Free

• Canopy Clues: How to identify trees, one clue at a time with Nature Conservancy Canada — June 12th at 5:30 PM ET // Free

• Nevertheless We Persist Virtual Benefit Concert with Irina — Saturday, June 14th from 8:00 to 10:00 PM PT // Free with donations welcome

• Online Novel Incubator Open House & Info Session with GrubStreet — June 16th from 6:30 to 7:30 PM ET // Free

• Late Night Virtual Screenwriting Workshop with Black Film Space — Thursday, June 16th from 10:00 to 11:30 PM ET // $10

• Technoableism, Cyborgs and Infrastructure with Ashley Shew and Damien Patrick Williams with Labs for Liberation — June 16th at 12:00 PM

• Submitting to Small Presses and Literary Journals with Pipeline Authors — Tuesday, June 17th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Bolt Cutters Program Info Session with Unicorn Authors Club — June 17th at 8:00 PM ET // Free

• Telling Story Through Sound and Music with the Team Behind MATERIALISTS with Sundance Collab — Wednesday, June 18th from 1:00 to 2:15 PM ET // Free

• Writing The Chronically Ill Body-Mind with Sundress Academy for the Arts — Wednesday, June 18th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM ET // Free with donations welcome

• Simple Tools for Challenging Times with Seriously Happy — Wednesday, June 18th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM CT // $50 with scholarships available

• Wild Hope: A Solstice Reset Inspired by a Teenage Audre Lorde with Mobile Homecoming Trust — June 19th at 6:30 PM ET // $28

• Working with Sound, Music, & Voiceover for Animation: Keys to Collaboration with Asians in Animation — Thursday, June 19th from 8:00 to 9:00 PM ET // Free

• Writer's Assistant Bootcamp with In the Cut — June 21st and 22nd from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $49

• Political Poetics with Button University — Begins Sunday, June 22nd // $85

• June Poetry Xfit with Sundress Academy for the Arts — Sunday, June 22nd from 2:00 to 4:00 PM ET // Free

• Gender Inclusivity in Theatre: 6 Week Intensive with Josephine Kearns — Begins June 23rd // Sliding scale from $100 to $300 with additional options

• Design Friction and Access Washing with Imani Barbarin and Sara Hendren with Labs for Liberation — June 23rd at 11:00 AM // Free

• Surviving the Freelance Grind with Pandemic University — Tuesday, June 24th at 5:30 PM MT // Free

• The Great Publishing Debate: Traditional vs. Self-Publishing and What No One Tells You with Pipeline Authors — Tuesday, June 24th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Rest Nests for Nara: No Pride in Genocide with The Rewilding x Rebirth Garments — Sunday, June 29th at 4:30 PM ET // $30 to $60 with scholarships available

• The Power of the Wild Disabled Idea with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha with Labs for Liberation — June 30th at 11:00 AM // Free

• Accessible Virtual Pride 2025 with Calling Up Justice — July 4th through 6th // Free

• Resilience is a Social Practice with Jeff Kasper and Sasha Costanza-Chock with Labs for Liberation — July 7th at 11:00 AM // Free

• Student Project Showcase with Labs for Liberation — July 14th at 11:00 AM // Free

• The Power of Online Spaces in Our Movements with PeoplesHub — Thursday, July 17th at 9:00 AM PT // Sliding scale starting at $40

• Facilitate for Freedom Fundamentals Training with AORTA — Thursday, August 28th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM ET // $90 to $1,350

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Caring For the Fat Body with Cosmic Healing — Sign up by June 18th.

• 2025 Virtual Summer Retreat Writing Fellowship with The Watering Hole — Apply by June 22nd.

• Revision Workshops with We Need Diverse Books — Apply by July 1st.

• Bolt Cutters Cohort with Unicorn Authors Club — Apply by July 15th.

• Black Feminist Praxis Study Circle with AORTA — Apply by July 18th.

• Summer Sessions with Da Black Queers Be Writing

• Poetry Reading Group Interest with Blue Stoop

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine: Issue 11 from World Health Network

• Trans Resource Guide from Queer Vox

• Fighting the Attacks on Science and Public Health Webinar from People’s CDC

• “Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games from The Sick Times

• Colorado art exhibition showcases creative expressions of Long COVID, advocates for research and treatment from The Sick Times

• Persuading the Public: Op Eds and Letters to the Editor Webinar from Defend Public Health

• autobiography of a semiromantic anarchist by mónica teresa ortiz from Host Publications, digital download by donation

About Justin

Justin Clarel is a Black queer writer, performer, and educator creating vibrant stories for a better world. They are most proud of their work with sketch comedy team The Rhubarbs, original works for stage and screen, and love for musical theatre. Keep up with their adventures at @theeclarel and theeclarel.com.