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Beata found a great essay by Lauren Berlant that sums up very well what…
…what we aim to achieve with our work. Check it out: "[...] people project onto sex the things that make them uncomfortable: its strangeness (I was just standing there talking, and now I’m doing this?), its messiness, its awkwardness, its apparent disconnect from so many other 'appropriate' urges…"
Call for proposals for touch & play Germany 2022!
“I stumble; maybe by stumbling I found you, maybe by stumbling I stumbled upon happiness, a happiness brimming with joy; a happiness as fragile as the bodies we love and cherish.” (S. Ahmed) – Beata is co-organizing the next Touch&Play Germany and is looking for facilitators who would like to share their magic…
The mountains are calling us! – To discover new, wonderfully strange ways to explore…
… how to be close to one another. Join us on our journey—a noble quest to demystify so-called tantric massages: TANTRA – WITH A PINCH OF SALT – RETREAT FROM JULY 9–17, 2022, at the beautiful Cortijo Caseria del Mercado in Andalusia, Spain.
How do we teach HOW TO BECOME A BETTER LOVER*** and why it's an ANTI-SELF-HELP GUIDE
A friend asked me about our new workshop, "HOW TO BECOME A BETTER LOVER," which will take place on February 5–6 at the IKSK in Berlin. We recorded the answer for anyone who’s curious to get a glimpse of our workshop format. The best and most engaging way to find out, though, is to join us 🤝
Calling a Sex-Positive Community, Group, or Event a “Family” – And Why It’s a Red Flag – New Zine by Beata 📖
"We are family!" or "Come and be part of our XYZ family" and similar phrases are something we often hear in the s+scene. Now Beata has created a zine about this peculiar term. Read and download it at >>THE PILLOW BLOG
Wow, the wonderful podcast "Mit Zunge" has an episode about our orgy workshop at the IKSK…
…done. Here you can hear us munching away insatiably during our follow-up discussion.
🍜 Yum yum yum…
"An earthy, dense, and archaic feminine space" – some thoughts on THE HOUSE OF NEUROTIC WOMXN…
…by one of the participants, captured on audio. – Winter has traditionally always been the time to observe the shadows. A time for daemons, ghosts, and the living dead. Winter within. It’s a good time for retreats and rituals. We wanted to create a ritualistic space for transitioning between…
What I Learned from the Sex-Positive Community. Part 3: Incorporating Practices into an Art Context.
We are honored that Eva Neklyaeva interviewed us for her articles on the connections between sex-positive spaces and art spaces for the online magazine Various Artists, an initiative of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Eva is a curator working at the intersection of…
Et voilà! Our brand-new concept for (AN)OTHER ORGY at the IKSK Berlin
“...we draw inspiration from the many facets of the orgiastic, from the images of the magnificent bodies of antiquity—elegantly lascivious yet simultaneously languid and sprawled, entwined with grapevines. From the frenzied states of emergency at pajama parties—spinning bottles and pillow fights—full of…
BREATHE, SENSE, FANTASIZE Retreat
"But what do I actually want?!" is a question we encounter time and again in our work. People go to playspaces, where all possibilities are open to them, yet this very fact can be so overwhelming that they end up doing either nothing at all or just the "classic" activities. We're very interested in what's behind this curious phenomenon! Not least because…
"PUBLIC CERVIX ANNOUNCEMENT"
You have to have the courage to do that. To bare yourself in front of other women*, making yourself both more vulnerable and stronger, so that you can use a speculum and a mirror to show each other your own uteruses. For some of our (grand)mothers, that was…
Early Bird Booking for the Extended "BREATHE, SENSE, FANTASIZE" Retreat
So, Spain is out now ⚽ So we thought: come on, let’s take this opportunity to do something special related to Spain: We’re extending the early-bird price for the September retreat in Andalusia until Saturday at 11 p.m. But then it’s the final ;) 🎉 Plus: If you’re heading to…
Beata at the expert panel discussions marking the opening of the IKSK Berlin
On October 9, Beata will be all ears for your questions—at the Expert’innentalks during the opening ceremony of the promising “Institute for Body Research and Sexual Culture” in Berlin—www.iksk-berlin.de. We are incredibly excited to help shape this space alongside luhmen d'arc in the future. Let the games begin!