What is Hotel Adipose:

• Hotel Adipose is a platform for art and connection bridging digital and physical spaces for creative practice, rest, and mutual support, centering artists and allies across many identities and histories

• The focus is on creative process and self-preservation: making, pausing, witnessing, and restoring ourselves without pressure to perform or perfect ourselves

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

By entering Hotel Adipose, you agree to respect the dignity and self‑definition of all participants, including their pronouns, names, access needs, and cultural practices

• Hotel Adipose actively welcomes participants of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, abilities, body sizes, class backgrounds, religions, and migration histories

• You must be 18 years or older to join this community

• Equity at Hotel Adipose means seeing imbalances and shifting to help—making space for quieter voices and adapting formats as needed so everyone can join in

How we treat one another

• Everyone is welcome; no hierarchies of training, productivity, or wellness. We meet each other with kindness, curiousity, and respect

• No harassment, shaming, or discrimination of any kind

Care, consent, and boundaries

• Speak from your own experience and avoid generalizations about groups of people; “I” statements are preferred over “we all” or “people like you.”​

• Avoid stereotypes and assumptions about someone’s culture, faith, body, or background based on appearance or accent

• You may step out, move, drink water, or rest at any time; facilitators will normalize breaks for sessions/workshops longer then an hour as part of the practice

• Everyone has the right to participate at their own pace: it is always acceptable to pass, be quiet, keep your camera off, or step away

• Do not record, screenshot, or share posts, images, or names outside Hotel Adipose without explicit permission from the founder of Hotel Adipose, Jessie Holmes, directly in written form and signed by Jessie Holmes.

• In respect to our sober community, please do not use drugs or alcohol during online Hotel Adipose events. If you have used substances, you are still welcome to attend, but keep your camera and microphone off and do not participate by voice or in the chat. If you need to vape or smoke (including cigarettes or cannabis), please also turn off your camera and microphone while doing so

Art‑making and feedback

• All mediums, languages, and aesthetic traditions are welcome; Hotel Adipose values folk practices, community knowledge, and non‑Western art lineages.​

• When responding to work, honour context: avoid, stereotyping, or appropriating cultural symbols and stories.​

• Sharing is always an invitation, never an obligation; cultural and personal boundaries around disclosure are respected

• Feedback is offered only when invited and is grounded in noticing strengths, resonances, and questions rather than critique

• Ask before offering advice, critique, or interpretations of someone’s art or mental health experience and avoid assuming shared experience (“we all feel…”); instead, speak from your own location and identity

Safety, accountability, and repair

• For Hotel Adipose community calls, please don’t invite additional people (i.e friends or family or share the meeting link, unless it’s absolutely necessary(for example, a child or pet in the room). This helps keep the space intimate, safe, and grounded for everyone who shows up

• Facilitators may pause or redirect conversations that enact harm (for example, racist, ableist or transphobic comments, during sessions) and will prioritize the safety of those impacted

  • Harmful behaviour may lead to being muted, asked to step away, or removed from sessions; repeated or severe violations can result in loss of access to Hotel Adipose spaces

  • When possible, facilitators will offer a chance for learning and repair, but community safety and equity are the priority

  • This is a peer, art‑based support space, is not therapy or a substitute for therapy, medical care, or emergency services

  • If someone appears to be in crisis, encourage them to seek appropriate local or professional help; facilitators may share crisis resources but cannot provide emergency intervention