Keynote Address by Michael Liu
Theme: Love, Sex, What Data?
Around the world, pleasure is often treated as a place of shame and taboo. But young people everywhere are curious about pleasure. How then do you help young people embrace their identities, sexualities? In the northern Chinese city of Shenyang, a group of queer activists have created an expansive and generous methodology to help young people embrace their own identities and that of others. Listen to how they made it happen in this paradigm-shifting talk.
Session Language -
English
Audio translation language -
Hindi, Tamil
ISL Availability - Yes
For ages - All
Pleasure Pocket by Tanisha R (Sangya Project)
Theme: The Transformative Power of Pleasure
Have you ever looked at a sex toy and felt frightened because it looked like something from a dentist’s clinic? Is it possible to make affordable and inclusive, steamy sex toys right here in India instead of waiting for your America ya Amsterdam wala cousin to smuggle them to you across continents? Then you must listen to this talk from the founder of a sex toy company. How did they begin to make sex toys that look not like factory machinery and more like jewellery? How did they create an aesthetic that is good for the eyes and good *elsewhere*? Hear it all.
Session Language -
English
Audio translation language -
Hindi, Tamil
ISL Availability - Yes
Pleasure Pocket by Aprajita Sarcar
Theme: Why Are We Scared of Pleasure?
When did India decide that families need planning and birth needs to be controlled? How did the small middle-class family become the aadarsh family? What did this do to poor and working class women? In this talk, a young scholar presents the extraordinary history of birth control in India and its consequences for our everyday lives. Do not miss the amazing images from India’s glorious contraceptive past.
Session Language -
English
Audio translation language -
Hindi, Tamil
ISL Availability - Yes
Pleasure Pocket by Sandeep TK
Theme: The Transformative Power of Pleasure
In 2019, a queer artist asked his friends from the trans community in Kerala about their dreams, of what they wanted to be seen as, of what they wished they could become. Swiftly came the answers -- lawyer, artist, priest, policeman, movie star. The portraits he then shot of his friends in these settings are exceptionally beautiful, lush and cinematic. Listen to the artist talk about this project.
Session Language -
English
Audio translation language -
Hindi, Tamil
ISL Availability - Yes
Pleasure Pocket by Suhas Misra
Theme: Love, Sex, What Data?
In the absence of data, stereotypes thrive. Including stereotypes that shape our expectations of self. For the happiness of men, it is the idea of man that needs complicating. Come, let’s see if we can do that.
Session Language -
English
Audio translation language -
Hindi, Tamil
ISL Availability - Yes
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