• t4t bodywork appointment form

    offered through "Soft Edges," a Transmissions Quilts show out of Light Manufacturing.
  • Eben Smith and Jane Love are offering bodywork for trans people. Get a free 60 minute massage underneath trans textile art! Eben and Jane will be in direct communication with you in the days leading up to your massage with logistics and location information. Please note: during massage days, the exhibition will not be open to the public. Thank you to James Parker Foley for sharing this approach to t4t bodywork. Header textile by Kayano Laws photographed by Tonal Simmons.
  • sign up with Jane Love:

    60 minute bodywork
  • Jane
  • sign up with Eben Smith:

    60 minute bodywork
  • Eben
  • Contact Information

  • Format: (000) 000-0000.
  • access info:

    Light Manufacturing is accessible by the #1 bus line with an additional 10 minute walk. There are no steps in the location. There's 1 ADA bathroom with utility sink. The space has a large roll door that we will keep open during our public events, pending weather. We will encourage masking and have options for seating closer to the open roll door. Please let us know if you have additional access needs we can support!
  • Eben Smith (he/him)

    Eben Smith (he/him)

    I love bodywork so much. As a trans person, receiving massage was one of the first ways I was able to have a simple, pleasant experience in my body. It reminded me that I was sacred. I am honored to share this experience with other trans people.
  • Jane Love (she/her)

    Jane Love (she/her)

    Jane Love is a Portland-based artist from the Deep South creating sculptures, prints, and paintings that combine folk techniques with queer themes to communicate the complexity of trans joy. She is also the founder of Trans Bodywork of New England which exists to support the bodies and lives of trans people through licensed massage and applied bodywork.
  • Eben and Jane are generously offering this service for free to trans people. If you feel like offering a tip to your therapists, please do so at the links below, or you will have the chance in person. If you'd like to make a donation to the broader trans quilts project, you can do so by venmo'ing @qwuilts.
  • Eben's venmo:

    @Eben-Smith-80
  • Jane's venmo:

    @judgygarland
  • learn more:

    transquilts.net // transquilts (ig)
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