SUBTEXTS: Distress Testing - on pain and its hauntings

With Sasha Litvintseva & E. Scourti Join us for readings on distress & the difficulty of describing what is felt but not easily named

Readings & Conversation with Sasha Litvintseva & E. Scourti

Pain resists description. Its subjectivity unsettles diagnosis, measurement, and language, often slipping between the psychic and the bodily, the felt and the unsayable. From chronic bodily pain to numbness and dissociation, we will explore how writers perform, fragment, and write through pain, asking what kinds of knowledge emerge when writing begins from lived experience.

Join us for readings and conversation on distress — psychic and physical — and the difficulty of describing what is felt but not easily named.

Tues Feb 2026, 6-8pm (doors open 5.30pm)

Cinema in BLOC, Arts One, QMUL, Mile End.

Snacks and drinks - all welcome.