Gossib Gathering is a research-oriented workshop that explores what shared care and community around parenting could look like today. This edition invites fathers, brothers; sons, uncles, friends, and allies—all people who were raised or are perceived as men—to reflect on their role in pregnancy, birth, care, and shared responsibility.

By using manual crafts—quilting and embroidery—as a meditative method, we create space for attentive conversations about parenting, emotional labor, and the social and cultural systems that shape our ideas about care and family. The workshop explores which support practices have been lost, which we can revive, and how we can develop new forms of solidarity and responsibility today.

The name “Gossib” refers to the Old English Godsibb, or “relative/spiritual neighbor.” In this workshop, we reclaim the word as a role of listening, caring, and supportive alliance. This edition, in collaboration with Hannah Kindler, focuses specifically on people who do not give birth themselves and invites reflection and practice around shared care and community.