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A Guided Qleasure Practice

29 March, 2025 @ 16:30 – 19:30 CET

Workshop: A Guided Qleasure Practice Sex Worker Only

By Gia G

Location: Etage | Times: 16:30-19:30 | Tickets: Donation (suggested sliding scale €0-20) – online registration required

In a guided qleasure practice we will research, uncover and practice the relationship we have to qleausure.

Qleasure or queer pleasure breaks boundaries, borders and binaries. There is no norm, no right way, no wrong way, only your way. Qleasure states we are all experts when it comes to our own pleasure, we just need some time and space to figure it out sometimes.

During this practice, we will focus on the individual relationship(s) we have to pleasure. What feels good? What does my body want? How does my head want to be touched, right here, right now? We start this session by grounding in the space, checking in with the others, making some collective agreements, before we go into a guided practice followed by some free play. This workshop is focused on the relationship with your own body, not those of others. The latter is to be explored in the full 4nights series called Pleasure Nights!

This workshop will be in English, is SW-only and offers space for max 20 participants.

GiA G is a queer heaux, spicy performer and model, pleasure activist, facilitator and writer. They dedicate their practice and personal life to seeking, researching and practicing pleasure by helping people connect with their own expertise. GiA G is an infinite learner who continuously builds their knowledge through sex work, books, listening, questioning, workshops, and practicing.

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CINETOL: Etage

Tolstraat 182 Amsterdam
Amsterdam, 1074 VM Netherlands
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    Online Sex Work 101

    29 March, 2025 @ 12:00 – 15:00 CET

    Workshop: Online Sex Work 101 Sex Worker ONLY

    By Jaq Quicksilver

    Location: Etage | Times: 12:00-15:00 (including break) | Tickets: Donation (suggested sliding scale €0-20) – online registration required

    Online sex work has exploded in popularity (and profits) since 2020. Kick-start your digital business by learning the basics of fan sites and clip creation, establishing and growing your brand, safety, and staying compliant with the law.

    This workshop will be in English, is SW-only and offers space for max 12 participants.

    Jaq Quicksilver (they/he/she) is a nonbinary and gender fluid content creator formerly from the SF Bay Area, California. Their body of commercial pornographic work chronicles their experimentation with gender and their ongoing physical transition. When not toiling in the smut mines, they enjoy bodybuilding, reading, needlecrafts, and chilling with their two cats. They moved to Amsterdam in February 2024 primarily to escape an increasingly anti-trans and anti-porn political and social landscape.

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    CINETOL: Etage

    Tolstraat 182 Amsterdam
    Amsterdam, 1074 VM Netherlands
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    Add Some Cinema to Your Sexy Content by Yvette Luhrs

    Yvette Lurs

    2 April, 2023 @ 14:00 – 16:00 CEST

    Location: Tuinkamer

    Times: 14:00-16:00

    SOLD OUT!
    Suggested donation €10 | Sex Workers only

    Reservation required via Eventbrite (10 persons max.)

    In this SEX WORKER ONLY Masterclass we look at how you can use basic cinematic techniques to help you create sexy content that makes you look your best! Content creators, in the form of videos, photo sets and/ or live cam shows, are invited to take a deep dive into their own work and their aesthetic interests. With easy tips and tricks on lighting, set dressing, camera technique and montage we will discuss how you can make your content more you. Participants are encouraged to bring a sample of their own work and (mainstream) examples of what inspires them.
    In this SEX WORKER ONLY Masterclass we look at how you can use basic cinematic techniques to help you create sexy content that makes you look your best! Content creators, in the form of videos, photo sets and/ or live cam shows, are invited to take a deep dive into their own work and their aesthetic interests. With easy tips and tricks on lighting, set dressing, camera technique and montage we will discuss how you can make your content more you. Participants are encouraged to bring a sample of their own work and (mainstream) examples of what inspires them.

    Yvette Luhrs is a pornographer, film scholar and sex worker.

    CINETOL: Etage

    Tolstraat 182 Amsterdam
    Amsterdam, 1074 VM Netherlands
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    • Erotic Self Portrait with Nat Portnoy

    by Nat Portnoy

    1 April, 2023 @ 12:00 – 14:00 CEST

    Location: Tuinkamer

    Times: 12:00-14:00

    Reserve a place (13 participants max) – suggested donation €5

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    In this all-inclusive, body and sex positive workshop, we focus on unlocking Intimacy and self-discovery through erotic selfies, exploring the possibilities of smartphone cameras and accessible items in the process of creating an intimate space. Learning how to take erotic selfies can make you feel empowered, giving the sense of control over how you express your intimate desire and sexual identity, creating deeper connections with yourself and the world around you. Nat Portnoy is a multidisciplinary, queer artist, filmmaker, and writer from Poland, based in the Netherlands.

    Nat Portnoy is a multidisciplinary, queer artist, filmmaker, and writer from Poland, based in the Netherlands. Her projects are based on theories of sociocultural construction, examining the cognitive processes of pleasure and its connotations with self-representation, identity, ritual, and the complexity of language used to express desire. In her artistic practice, she refers to existing ideologies and beliefs, examining them through the knowledge of a collective and personal experience.

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    https://linktr.ee/natportnoy

    CINETOL: Etage

    Tolstraat 182 Amsterdam
    Amsterdam, 1074 VM Netherlands
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    • Responding to WRS: A Community-led Campaign (sex worker only workshop & brunch)

    1 April, 2023 @ 12:00 – 14:00 CEST

    A cross-organisational group of sex worker activists from SWAD (Sex Work Alliance Destigmatisation) joined an action group to develop a national campaign to respond to the imminent threat of a new set of regulations and legislation in the Netherlands (WRS).

    During this brunch we will come together for a workshop with sex worker advocates from the Netherlands, to acquire a better understanding of the upcoming law and regulation and to develop together the campaign slogans and key messages.

    Location: Zaal

    Times: 12:00-14:00 

    Entry: Free – reserve a space online

    (Max 30 Participants Sex Workers Only)

    queer.red presents! is proud member of SWAD (Sex Work Alliance Destigmatisation).

    SWAD is an alliance of 22 organizations and initiatives working together to reduce the stigma on sex work. A cross-organisational group of sex worker activists from SWAD (Sex Work Alliance Destigmatisation) joined an action Group to develop a national campaign to respond to the imminent threat of a new set of regulations and legislation in the Netherlands (WRS). These changes will negatively impact sex workers’ human rights in the Netherlands and might expand stigma and discrimination towards the community.

    The campaign imagined by the action group includes interventions such as media training of community members championing decriminalisation in the Netherlands, engagement with Dutch media, an online awareness raising campaign and face to face dialogues with the broader public.

    CINETOL: Etage

    Tolstraat 182 Amsterdam
    Amsterdam, 1074 VM Netherlands
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