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Danielle LaFrance presents "#postdildo"

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Wednesday, August 9th 2023

7:00 pm

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After a carnal encounter with garbage, some space emerged for Danielle LaFrance to air her dildos.

In #postdildo they think and write through the limitlessness and limitations of sexuality, communication, and desire. Focusing on the dildo as sexual object and social relation, LaFrance asks, “How shall You fuck without causing harm?” What came before #postdildo if not internet porn, the confession booth, colonial capitalism, settler sexuality, patriarchy, and feminism, all providing a blueprint for how inadequately to be touched and fucked? What comes after delights? #postdildo is a mass of contradictions that more often than not finds a lot of dis/pleasure in a lot of refusal.

Following the would-be poetics mapped in JUST LIKE I LIKE IT (Talonbooks 2019), Danielle LaFrance arrives at thinking and acting from a position where illusions are just that, illusions, and can be destroyed. She authors Friendly + Fire (Talonbooks, 2016) and species branding (Capilano University Editions, 2010). Their new book #postdildo is for, in the words of Annie Sprinkle, “spicy scholars.”

Jo Giardini is a post-doctoral fellow with the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality and with the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University. They are presently writing on the politics of communalism and separatism in the 1970s, and working on a critical history of the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic, its relationship to trans communities in Baltimore, and its often noxious effects on access to trans care and affirmation.

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