Star Finch

FUCK ME UP: WRITING SEX AND TEXTUAL REVOLT (workshop)

If eroticism is a potentially incorruptible resource that points to the possibility of relations that are not based on extraction, as Audre Lorde suggests, and if writing can be a deeply sexual practice that insists on the connections between power and sexuality, as Kathy Acker says, then what are some strategies for actually writing dissident sex? We'll try out some methods for practicing pornographic writing at its funniest, worst, hottest, most horrible, digusting and sexiest, embarking on a range of good, bad, and weird textual fucks to test their failures and promises.

Star Finch writes tragic and funny queer pornography and experimental ficto-theory, which they present in bars and art spaces internationally, such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the ICA London, or Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe. They are part of the French queer, dyke, trans, and nonbinary collective RER Q, which unites six authorx who write about explicit sex to perform their writing together. Some of their projects include the translations of Lisa Robertson and Kathy Acker into French, the introduction and critical notes to Kathy Acker 1971-1975 (Editions Ismael, 2019) and I Lie on the Floor (After8, 2021). Their first poetry collection, Spit in my mouth then spit in my other mouth is coming soon, as well as their first novel Fuck Me Judith.