Join us to walk your very first steps in learning rope bondage (shibari/kinbaku), based on Japanese-inspired rope bondage. This class is designed for absolute beginners with no prior knowledge whatsoever. We recommend visiting it 2-3 times until you have accumulated muscle memory and then join our beginner class to go further. Event Details Date...
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Join us to walk your very first steps in learning rope bondage (shibari/kinbaku), based on Japanese-inspired rope bondage. This class is designed for absolute beginners with no prior knowledge whatsoever. We recommend visiting it 2-3 times until you have accumulated muscle memory and then join our beginner class to go further. Event Details Date...
Deviations Book Club returns from its summer hiatus with a discussion of Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology, a lyrical academic study of the phenomenological concept of “orientation.” The panel will discuss the book’s framing of queerness, its approach to phenomenology, and the thought that goes into planning a “queer” conference that faces a diverse and...
You’re enjoying floor play but you want to explore new elements? Or do you dream about doing suspensions one day and want to get started in a soft way? Welcome to this workshop, where we learn easy ways of using suspension lines in floor play. We will use the lines to support, guide, and...
In this session, we'll screen three films related to the conference and have a space for discussion. The session will open with the short films Ich Armer Mensch (dir. August Schram) starring Georg Barkas: We will also screen Oink!, (dir. Rob Eagle), starring João Florêncio. The last film will be the feature The...
A short meditation on how difference and the erotic can be engaged. This session is part of the Queer Practices / Queer Embodiment remote transdisciplinary conference that aims to bring together artists, theorists, and practitioners. The conference continues our work of building a community that is focused on intentionally developing bodily practices. We want...
This talk will explore the second half of the previously published essay 'How Do Gender Transitions Happen?', exploring in some more depth the role played by S&M practices in the 'community face' of transition. Clearly, sadomasochism has been one means used by trans people (among other queers) to 'recontextualise' and refashion otherwise seemingly immutable...
In this session, Andrea Rimon will look at tying as a performing art and discuss the performing arts as an integral part of a family abolitionist project. Drawing on the theoretical work of Paul Preciado, Andrea Dworkin, and others, Rimon will assert the importance of building resources for embodied education outside of family structures....
Impact Play is fun and its basics are easy to learn. But once you know-how, you should also know why you engage in this form of play. Deepen your knowledge with this intermediate workshop and dive deeper into intentions, techniques, and other relevant details to get the most out of your play. Event...
In this session, Puma Camillê, an interdisciplinary artist, model, and member of ballroom and capoeira communities, will use body movement to explore concepts of masculinity and femininity. Puma will discuss how their work draws on the connection between capoeira and vogue as overlapping practices of bodily expression arising from the African diaspora. The class...
The introduction of combination antiretroviral therapies in 1996 brought about a radical change in the temporality of HIV infection, moving us away from the event-time of the AIDS crisis to the expanded/expansive temporality of chronic ‘undetectability’. That, and the later extension of antiretrovirals as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, has dramatically shifted the lived temporalities of both...
Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go (Dance, Movement, Performance Art) An algorithm for dancing with the planet. An algorithm for dancing with your beloved. An algorithm for dancing from enough-ness. To practice love in the midst of distress, To practice care in the midst of distress In this part lecture, part workshop, Lee...