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Michael Valinsky

@michaelvalinsky

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Writing & designing for culture
Founder @lemeetup • Paris

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@thorns.thorns by @nicolasaristidou taken in Paris, France by @michaelvalinsky

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@florian.hetz appreciation post taken in Berlin, Germany by @michaelvalinsky

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Friday, June 26, 2026 at @lacaserneparis

To close out our second season, we gathered on the eve of a canceled Pride to ask some difficult questions: What happens when queer spaces close? And what are the material conditions that make these spaces possible in the first place, or eventually make them impossible to sustain?

For Le MEETUP 11 (ARE YOU PROUD?), we looked at queer gathering through two very different cultural objects, tracing the relationship between space, desire, community, precarity, and belonging.

Objects considered:
- Wildness by Wu Tsang (2012)
- "Is the Rectum a Grave?" by Leo Bersani (1987)

Thank you, as always, to @lacaserneparis for hosting us, to @aziz.psd for snapping pics, and to everyone who joined us to close out a beautiful second season of rethinking the way we gather.

#lemeetup by @michaelvalinsky

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once more with feeling taken in Malmousque by @michaelvalinsky

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non deludi mai taken in San Remo, Italy by @michaelvalinsky

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i hope this tan finds you well by @michaelvalinsky

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agile not senile. man against a faded wall taken in Marseille, France by @michaelvalinsky

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so this is resting. taken in Belvézet by @michaelvalinsky

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📷 @cedricterrell taken in Paris, France by @michaelvalinsky

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Friday, May 29, 2026 at @iciconversation

We are legible bodies, constantly misread. Le MEETUP 10 (CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?) sat with what happens when language speaks us before we speak it, shaping what we can think, what we can feel, what we can say. Together, we excavated the edits we make to be understood, and what we bury in the process.

Objects considered:
- What our language habits reveal by Steven Pinker
- What is code switching by Benjamin Abiola

Thank you to everyone for braving the heat and to @iciconversation for hosting us.

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Michael. taken in Paris,France by @michaelvalinsky

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calor taken in Madrid, Spain by @michaelvalinsky

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