PLEASURE CON 2.0

A Day of Discussions, Panels, and Workshops organised by Feminist Fiction Berlin and Women* Writing Berlin Lab e.V.

WHAT IS PLEASURE? How is it defined? Who has access to it? How do we embrace it, challenge societal norms, and make space for PLEASURE in ways that serve us? Feminist Fiction Berlin and Women* Writing Berlin Lab e.V. proudly bring you PLEASURE Con — a one-day event dedicated to exploring and celebrating PLEASURE.

Through panel discussions, workshops, and interactive sessions, attendees will gain knowledge, tools, and strategies to embrace and redefine PLEASURE on their own terms. PLEASURE CON will foster open dialogue and provide practical tools for understanding and experiencing PLEASURE in all its forms — physical, emotional, and creative.

The event is organised by Feminist Fiction Berlin and Women* Writing Berlin Lab e.V.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!!!

(There will be a limited number of tickets available for purchase at the door.)

Programme

Pleasure Through Consent: Group Workshop

Workshop Host: Dr. Faye Barth-Farkas/14:00 - 15:00

Should you - a people-pleaser - have asked for consent? Or is it most pleasurable for you to take what you want? Would you even know what that would be? In this workshop we will learn to invite pleasure into our sex(ual) lives by getting to know our own desires and centering consent in all its facets. Drawing from my training as a psychologist and systemic counsellor we will extend on one-on-one approaches to sex therapy. As a group we will benefit from other perspectives and experiences, therefore

Please bring:

• sex-positivity and curiosity,

• your ability to only share as much or as little as you wish,

• respect for other people’s privacy

Ancestral Connections and Gifts of Pleasure Jewelry Making Workshop

Workshop Host: Nelden Djakababa Gericke/14:00 - 15:00

What is your relationship with pleasure, and which aspects of pleasure got handed down from your ancestors to you? Which of these gifts you’d accept, and which ones would you rather let go of? How would you develop these gifts further? We will explore these questions in a secure and supportive circle with the tools of guided meditation, reflective-writing, (optional) story-sharing, and identify the symbols of the gifts from your ancestors to carry with you.

This workshop is for:

All of you who are curious about your relationship with your ancestors, their legacy in shaping your relationship with pleasure (in the broad sense of the word), and how you’d decide on pleasure, on your own terms.

Come with:

- Your openness, curiosity, and playfulness.

- Mutual support and respect for fellow participants.

- Optionally: journal and / or your favorite writing tools (but I’ll also provide paper and pens!)

Take home with you:

- An alternative, intergenerational perspective to reflect on your pleasure journey

- A necklace with three charms – symbols of the gifts from your ancestors to you

Please note:

This workshop is designed using the principles of psychological well-being, among other influencing concepts. However, it is not designed to replace psychotherapy in a clinical setting. Please seek the help of certified psychotherapists for working towards your specific mental health goals.

Zines for the Unspeakable

Workshop Hosts: Lizeth Rodriguez & Melda Temuçin/14:00 - 15:00

Cultural backgrounds aren‘t always loud, it’s quiet gestures, untold stories, languages slipping from memory, unacknowledged pain, and the pressure to fit into boxes that don’t quite fit. This workshop is about reclaiming space and voice through zines. It’s for everything that’s been hard to say, or too layered to say simply. What if you could say it your way? Visually, through text, symbolically. What if you could make a zine that held your truth, your joy, your silence, your resistance?

In this zine making workshop, we will: Explore the theme of culture and personal voice Work with collage, illustration, writing, and layout Use prompts to access what feels hard to name Make space for our stories and experiment with how we want them to look and feel Co-create a collective, supportive space of creativity and expression.

Who is the workshop for? Anyone who wants to explore their voice or the parts of themselves that haven’t been easy to express. No artistic experience needed, Curiosity and openness are enough. This is an LGBTQIA+ inclusive, body-positive, neurodivergent-welcoming space.

What will I need? Yourself and your story (no matter how uncertain or messy it feels)

Pretty Deadly:
Self-Defense Workshop

Workshop Host: Cendres from ZAZA EXPLORE/(TBH)

Women* spend 50% of our time strategizing how to stay safe. What if we had more time? Imagine if we could free up that time so we can contribute to the things that really matter: getting an education, developing careers, growing communities, following our dreams, building a better world.

Turn your rage into power with Pretty Deadly Self Defense. Pretty Deadly Self Defense was developed as an answer to traditional, scenario-based self defense, and approaches self defense based on maximizing existing, natural reactions and responses to reduce training muscle memory for something new. The course was developed based on behavior response, the biology of our innate self defense systems, and of course martial arts.

Even as women* martial artists, we find violence and physical conflict exhausting and dehumanizing. But we find learning and understanding how our bodies work through body dynamics, structure, balance and natural movement joyful and uplifting.

User-focused Self Defense
Based on natural movement, body dynamics and structure vs. strength, Pretty Deadly Self Defense incorporates modified techniques found across 11 schools of martial arts, from Ninjutsu to Krav Maga to Kung Fu and Tae Kwon Do. We start with the very basic structures and help you find what's right for your body, improving centering and structure to enhance balance and mobility.

All fitness levels - All rage levels! Max group 10 people! Get there early to sign-up!

Decolonial Erotica Poetry Writing Workshop

Erotica Poetry Writing Workshop Host: Elba Quintero/16:00 - 17:00

Sexuality is part of human experience. There’s not one way of looking at it, each culture has its own way of living it. In the Western world, we’re used to looking at it from a particular perspective, where catholic, patriarchal and capitalist views affect each person’s perspective of themselves and their interactions with others. But what happens when we view ourselves from a different lense?

In this workshop we’ll analyze erotic poetry from the Mexica (Aztec) culture so that we can view their perspective of sexuality, as part of their own vision of the cosmos. In the pre-hispanic Náhuatl world, sexuality had a vital importance: it was ritually channeled to have a magical-religious effect, or it could also be scattered spontaneously in recreational moments and spaces. It has important elements, such as laughter, singing and dancing, flowers, and a tight correlation between sex and death. We’ll review new perspectives and meaning, so that we can have new tools to express ourselves through poetry.

Who is the workshop for?

FLINTA writers from all genres and experience levels are welcome. The workshop will be conducted in English but can be supplemented with Spanish and German.

What will I need?

• Writing material will be provided :)

The Pleasure of Building and Belonging to Community

Workshop Host: Ariadna/16:00 - 17:00

This interactive workshop invites participants to explore the pleasure of building and belonging to community, not as a duty or a means of survival alone, but as a joyful, creative, and liberatory practice. Drawing inspiration from bell hooks, Mia Birdsong, Harvey Milk, Jane Goodall, Audre Lorde, The Sister-Song Collective, and Davi Kopenawa, we ground our conversation in feminist, ecological, and justice-oriented understandings of connection.

Through a short presentation and guided group reflection, participants will consider:

• What makes community pleasurable and sustaining?

• How can we build communities rooted in love, care, difference, and justice?

• What personal and collective practices help us show up for one another with authenticity and joy?

The session blends theory and lived experience, reflection and discussion, and invites each participant to imagine tangible ways to cultivate community as both a political act and a source of delight.

Pleasure Mic Spoken Word Night

Spoken Word Host: Allia Sadeghipour (AKA The Golden Dick)/ 19:00 - 21:30

SEX, ONE-NIGHT STANDS,

SNUGGLES & SNUGGIES

FOOD & FANTASIES

INTIMACIES & INTRICACIES

WHAT IS PLEASURE?

Welcome to a night of PLEASURE. Raw, scandalous, hilarious and ironic, join your host Allia Sadeghipour (The Golden Dick)

for a night of curated PLEASURE poetry, spoken word, drag and artistic performances representing the myriad of representations of PLEASURE. Let us release the desires, hilarities, taboos, and all that is behind, inside, above, and below the theme of PLEASURE.

DRESS CODE:

Costumes, looks, sexy, sensual, snuggly, funny, & grime, we love all your looks. We are not the fashion police. We just want you to feel good and vibey :).

IMPORTANT NOTE:

• This event is FLINTA+friends only meaning open to all individuals identifying as women, to intersex, trans, non-binary and gender fluid individuals as well. We also welcome the +friends of FLINTA as long as they adhere to the Community Guidelines.

• We encourage womxn of color, black womxn, womxn with disabilities, Asian womxn, womxn from the Global South, womxn coming from minorities, womxn of every religion, ethnicity, language, skin color, nationality to join our event :). And if we are forgetting to mention some categories, please just remember one thing: EVERY WOMAN* is welcome!! ♥

• The WWBL Spoken Word Night is meant to be a safe space for women*'s voices and creativity. Therefore, we do not accept any form of hate speech, racist, homophobic, aphrophobic, and/or islamophobic jokes or expressions. There won't be space for any form of discriminating attitude or messages. We have enough hate in the world, let’s platform the beauty.

• If you are going to talk about sensitive topics (rape, racism, violence, depression, suicide, experiences of abuse, sexual assault, etc. ...), please preface your performance with a trigger warning

• WWBL events are meant to be as accessible as possible, we understand this also means financially. For this reason, we always offer discounted tickets

Wait! There’s More!

Throughout the CON there are even more things, activities, games, and opportunities for connection!

Interactive Erotica Listening Booths with XOUNDS

Audio Erotica Listening Booths

Explore the xounds interactive listening booth featuring exclusive authentic audio erotica or use the inspiration and start recording your own authentic, consensual audio content sharing what pleasure means to you. Dive deeper into the art of sounds, storytelling and conversation and discover the transformative potential of audio for connection and intimacy.

CLITO

Clitoris Shaped Accessories & Educational Awareness

Clito (@clito.clito) an award-winning brand of clitoris-shaped accessories designed to spark conversations, educate, and build a community of awareness around the importance of pleasure. Caroline also co-created The World Bank of Genitalia (genitalia.me), an interactive, growing mosaic of photos showcasing the diverse range of human genitalia. Clito will be offering discounted rates to attendees and an interactive clitoris model to play with.

The World Bank of Genitalia

Art EXHIBITION Project Series by: Caroline Barrueco, Luesley Sol + João Kowacs

This is an interactive, growing mosaic of photos showcasing the diverse range of human genitalia. Have a look, surf around and maybe send your own photo! Our aim is to promote body positivity and empower everyone to feel comfortable and confident in their unique bodies (genitalia.me).

Periodenladen Berlin

MENSTRUATION EDUCATION, AWARENESS, & SWAG

We make your bleeding more beautiful! We want you to bleed in the best possible way! For this purpose, we have curated the most beautiful product selection for you, advise you individually and let you try on all panties in the Berlin store. We are a growing team of midwives, cultural scientists, fashion designers, coaches, running coaches, sex toy experts, educators and cycle experts. The period shop also offers workshops, readings, running training, discussion groups and more. Periodenladen will be supporting the CON via education, SWAG, stickers, and more!
Der Periodenladen - Europas größte Auswahl an Periodenprodukten. – La Blutique

Meet the Force Behind
RAGE CON

@wearewwbl @feminist.fiction.berlin @projecttogether @clito.clito @cplusbakery @prettydeadlyselfdefense @projectzaza @koralydimitriadis @studio.ronjawolff @periodenladen_berlin

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