Queer Fight Club is a community organized self-defense program for 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. Topics include basic self-defense techniques, first aid training, conflict de-escalation, and how to recognize abuse and intimate partner violence.

We meet the first and third Mondays of each month from 7:00-8:30pm.

Queer Fight Club is a reaction against mainstream martial arts and self-defense methods that often fail to respect boundaries or listen to participants. Martial arts spaces frequently suffer from unhealthy attitudes or systems, such as toxic masculinity, toxic individualism, anti-queer rhetoric, refusal to accommodate differences, the encouragement of body-image issues, and over-reliance on tradition.

QFC’s mission is to do self-defense differently; we are more interested in community defense. We want our practice space to be consent-based, trauma-informed, body-positive, and inclusive. We want our students to be able to do more than protect themselves – we want them to be comfortable in their bodies and abilities, become proactive community members, support those around them, cultivate safe and nurturing environments, and pass on the skills they learn.

To contact Queer Fight Club directly with questions or concerns, or to ask us to lead a self-defense training for your organization, please email us at queerliberation@okcdsa.org

For more information, please visit the OKC DSA website at https://okcdsa.org/working-groups/queer-liberation/