5th Sexuality Festival in English!

There will be interpretation in English!

Call for photo exhibition “Women with body hair”

 

She was born with the soft skin of a baby. Hairless and clean. Suddenly when she reached the age of 12, hair started growing in different parts of her body.
When she was 14, she would hide her naked leg immediately when it was visible. People staring made her feel unsightly. She would avoid lifting her arms. People staring made her feel disgusting. And when she was talking to someone, their eyes were fixed around her mouth. Their eyes made her fell ugly.
When she was 16, she would shave her pubic hair so that she would feel clean and beautiful.
When she was 17 she would wonder why the boy next to her was considered more manly when his body hair grew and became more dense, while her femininity depended on how careful she was removing every bit of her body hair.
We have learned to distinguish and to measure femininity and beauty through the common and sovereign representations of our society. It is time to open our eyes and mind to new images and a new reality in which we perceive our femininity and beauty as we like, not as we are told to.
In order to explore our representations, we ask of women out there to photograph their body hair by themselves or with the help of others. It doesn’t matter which part of your body you want to show and photograph. Body hair that “aren’t supposed” to exist in conformation to this society, hair that we love or try to love.
So that each and every one can chose how to be a woman, how to look beautiful, how to feel pretty no matter what they chose or to look “ugly” and that “ugliness” to be their beauty.

Send your photos accompanied with your real name or your nickname in the following email address sexualityfestival@hotmail.gr until 1/5/2017.
The photographs will be presented in the exhibition “Women with body hair” during the sexuality festival which is held in the Science Faculty of AUTH from 5 to 7 of May.

*Photographs must have at least a 300dpi resolution. Black and white as well as colored photographs are accepted.

*Sexuality festival isn’t going to use any of the photographs that you send us in any other exhibition beside the festival’s unless you grand us permission.

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If the number of the photos is one that cannot be handled by our economic status we will not print all the photos.

Call for writing fairy tales

The 5th Sexuality Festival of Thessaloniki is on it’s way and why not work on something that interests people of all ages and had a big impact on our lives? What would that be? Fairy tales of course. We believe that story telling is an essential concept of our lives and that they are responsible for shaping a lot of aspects of our personality since we were little. That’s why we would like to search and think of new ways stories are formed, different versions of old fairy tales that don’t comfort to the usual gendered stereotypes.

We are used to hearing about princes saving princesses in danger. Let’s change that, let the princesses be the heroes and the fighters of their own fight. We would like to see queer fairies and lesbian witches and whatever comes to your newly born worlds of imagination. Surprise us.

Write your own fairy tale as you imagine it and send it to us in the following email address:
sexualityfestival@hotmail.gr

You can send your stories until 01/05/2017 .

You are free to write the fairy tale in any form you like.

The festival is held in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the Science Faculty during 5-7 of May. The fairy tales that you will send us are going to be read during the festival.
We are so excited!

The group organizing the Sexuality Festival

The 4th Sexuality Festival is coming…

This year, Sexuality Festival is going to take place in 21-22 May. The place, as always,  is the Faculty of Sciences in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

3rd Sexuality Festival Program, March 6-7-8

Sexuality Festival returns to it’s familiar “home”, for the third consecutive year.

This years program:

FRIDAY MARCH 6th:

18:30 – SCREENING: A Jihad for Love

20:00 – “Boy or Girl? Oh, fuck off!”
a talk on children’s sexuality

22:00 – Update on sexualy transmitted diseases  by Thess Checkpoint

23:00 – Party with a live performance from Deep in the Top

SATURDAY MARCH 7th:

17:30 – SCREENING: Intersexion

19:00 – TALK: “My body, my choice. Sex work activism” by STAR-STAR

21:30 – PERFORMANCE: “Violence disguised and naked. Break the silence.”
                                              from the members of the World Naked Bike Ride

22:00 – SCREENING: Joven y alocada

SUNDAY MARCH 8th:

17:00 – SCREENING: Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

17:30 – SCREENING: Test de la vida real

20:00 – “Narratives beyond  transnormativity”
              Talk based on the works of Miquel Missé

21:30 – Hedonistic reading with Sylvia Rivera – Thessaloniki Pride

22:00 – SCREENING: Wadjda

PARALLEL EVENTS:

“Drag me in” – photo exhibition

SATURDAY 16:00-19:00 – Experiential seminar: “The expression of the body”*

SUNDAY 16:00-19:00 – Drag King Workshop*

*in order to participate in the workshop or seminar,
registration by email is required at sexualityfestival@hotmail.gr

See you, March 6-7-8, at Aristotle University’s Faculty of Sciences building.

→ A high effort to remain on schedule will be made. ←

The 3rd Sexuality Festival is on it’s way…

Stick around for this years sexuality festival, March 6-7-8!