Queer Intimacies is a two-day conference exploring the diverse landscape sexualities, kink, and intimacies, bringing together theorists, practitioners, and participants to bridge theoretical insights with lived experiences.
Through workshops, lectures, and discussions, we will question, critique, broaden, and/or reimagine topics and concepts within kink, sexualities, and intimacies research and practice that are too often used without exploring their history, meaning, or potential for expansion and change.
What even is intimacy? What is kink play and who gets to play and who doesn’t? How do we produce pleasure and desire without adhering to normative and gendered scripts? What kinds of desirability politics do we enact without even knowing? How is kink a practice to work with the material and ideas we usually have no access to? This conference will not offer nicely packaged answers but rather try to open doors for more ideas and questions to enter the discussion.
Whether you are a scholar, an activist, a practitioner, or someone simply curious about these themes, Queer Intimacies aims to provide a weekend long welcoming and inquisitive space to share knowledge, foster dialogue, and engage in critical reflection.
Here is the detailed conference program and schedule.
Event Details
Date & Time: March 1, 2025, 11am-10.30pm CET (Berlin)
Format: conference / weekend of questioning
Audience: LGBTQIA+ & Friends
Language: English
Minimum Knowledge Level: None, just bring curiosity. Some offers will be more academic in language and approach but we will always aim to have space to ask and explain terms and ideas.
What to Bring: yourself and all the cozy stuff you need to hang out with us for 2 days
Solo or Partnered: all constellations welcome, come alone, bring partner(s), best friends, groups…
Price: 100 Euros per full conference ticket, 50 Euros for day tickets. You can also buy single event tickets.
Before purchasing a solidarity ticket, please check here if you are eligible for one. If you do not have sufficient funds for a solidarity tickets, please email us via info@karada-house.de so we can figure something out. Nobody will be turned away.
Recording: the conference is recorded and will be made available for 30 days after the live conference to all ticket holders.
Speakers/Facilitators:
Alexander Hahne
Andrea Rimon
Avgi Saketopoulou
Caritia
Ceci Ferox
Georg Barkas
Oya
Sophia Rose
Accessibility Note
The workshop and discussion are held in spoken English with automated captions in English which are provided by Zoom. Communication within the class can be had via chat but also people can come on mic and speak. If you participate in this workshop and need more assistance, i.e. someone reading out the chat, etc, please message us at info@karada-house.de beforehand.
Who is this event for?
LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity, meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.
Friends describes people of any and all kinds of gender and sexual identities who are aware and respectful of the necessity, needs and boundaries of a queer safe(r) space and its marginalized community.
When you consider yourself a friend you show acknowledgement to and are respectful of everyone’s self expressions and do not assume, presume or project non consensual ideas onto others. You actively request and use people’s chosen pronouns. You remain mindful of the fact that Karada House is first and foremost a space for queer people that you are also invited to attend. You have a genuine concern for the well-being of LGBTQIA+ people and remain in awareness of heterosexual and gender straight privileges.
Friends don’t have to be perfect. None of us are. We request that we all pro-actively work and strive to be good friends and allies to marginalized people.
