We have been edging you for long enough the time has finally cum to join us again at the Glory, to celebrate the publication of our latest anthology Masturbatory Reader.
Featuring D Mortimer, Wes Knowler, Biogal, Tallulah Griffith, Brooke Palmieri
(CAMP BOOKS), Carl Gent, Sophie Mak-Schram, Alice Butler, Nat Pyper, Alton
Melvar M Dapanas, Sammy Paloma, Donna Marcus Duke, and Ryan Boultbee, with a
forward by Emily Pope (Montez Press). Keep an eye out for the line up in the
coming weeks!
Together, we will be exploring three main questions:
1. What power and pleasure can we access through attending to the erotics of knowledge production?
2. How are the sites, systems and tools of knowledge-making designed to reiterate violent norms (and in turn, erase deviant practices)?
3. What could the making (and unmaking) of these systems allow us to imagine?
Within these texts we can find solidarity, care, love-making, but also rage, erasure, pain, and contradiction. Sexiness is complicated, and masturbation is hard. Deep. Pulsating. These are not texts that occupy a singular voice but rather fill a room with their difference, creating this orgy that weve called an anthology. With this collection of work, we make a contribution to the lesser-discussed field of erotics from a position that both protects and complicates what we mean when we say pleasure. We smear our wankstain all over these pages, with those other book-fuckers, making tangible the genealogies of erotic-thought which have traditionally been structurally suppressed.
The night will be hosted by the pornographic Donna The First. Expect silly shenanigans, and publications, prints and other delicious things will be available to buy on the night.
Access info
At The Glory we will be in the basement with no step free access. There are
gender neutral toilets on the ground floor. You will be able to come and go,
and fidgeting, moving and stimming is welcome. The capacity of the live event
is 50 and there will be no social distancing in place.
Tune into the April episode of Sticky Fingers Publishing to listen at home after the event.
Tickets
PAY WHAT YOU CAN:
This sliding scale has been adapted from Glasgow Zine Library who have adapted it from Leeds Queer Film Festival and Scottish Queer International Film Festival.
AFK: PWYC 5/8/12
5 I frequently stress about basic needs and dont always achieve them.
8 I may stress about meeting my basic needs but regularly achieve them.
12 I am comfortably able to meet all of my basic needs.
