Newark Women In Film

TONGUE: A Political Erotic Reading Series, creates a space for queering the erotic, the sensual and the political. This 12 month reading and workshop series lends itself to enhancing the craft of queer poets, writers, visual artist and community members with a place to publish and showcase the performing, visual, written and spoken word. Through communal workshops and monthly readings, TONGUE, embodies an inclusive and challenging space for queer poets, writers and audience members to share with intention, their voice, truths and writing power with  the Media Arts & Literacy Institute, Newark Women In Film, The Conscious Room and the Kinky Mac.

WHAT IS POLITICAL EROTICA:

One who takes issue with much of what might be considered traditional morality in the US and creates a distinctly American form of erotic visual performance literature which she or he draws from the different ethnic, religious and cultural strains of our society, creating contrasts of pleasure, desire, celebration of the body and pain as well as guilt, resentment and deprivation. Recognizing that one can easily lose themselves in the erotic fantasies, the imagery and the heat of the prose . This valuable form of writing and visual art is an important part of culture and the human experience. TONGUE, takes us to the intersection of our desires and our political beliefs; while re-imagining government, bedroom politics and sexual partners.