Feeding Your Baby
A day of caring workshops led by Liesel Burisch
We're delighted to welcome Liesel Burisch, an expert in queer nursing and family support, to DCA for a series of supportive, inclusive workshops on the topic of nursing.
This is an inclusive workshop for people who wish to nurse/breastfeed/chestfeed, and/or their support networks.
The workshop offers foundational knowledge around the preparation, establishment and the 'everyday' of nursing infants in two parts. Part one will focus on securing a transformative nursing experience alongside the logistical and emotional aspects of infant feeding. Part two (starting at 11:15) will explore the ending of nursing, through the unique methods of the phasing system, participants will be offered a kind, relaxed end to feeding without the culturally embedded and accepted long nights of crying and removal.
You can join for one or both parts of the workshop and are encouraged to bring anyone from your support network who plays or will play an important role in the establishment or ending of nursing/breastfeeding/chestfeeding.
About Liesel Burisch
Liesel Burisch (DK/DE) is an artist, writer, and birth activist/worker. Burisch’s interest currently lies in hybrid gatherings around healing and celebration. Influenced by their work around nightlife and post partum, Burisch explores the reconstruction, recontextualization and reinterpretation of rest as a form of collective healing from trauma and austerity. Having worked with infants and families for over a decade, Burisch wrote the manifest “Queer Nursing” which has been included in the Wellcome Collection, London and become a staple for birth workers. Burisch is the winner of the Prix JCE and was nominated for the CIRCA prize in 2023. Their most recent shows include exhibitions at O-Overgaden, Copenhagen, Art Tower Mito, Japan, Imagine The City, Hamburg and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
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