Uncharted desires – asexuality’s many faces with orchi lohani, Tasfia and e
A collaborative event on the topic of asexuality. Organized and funded by the Gender Research Department of the University of Vienna and financially supported by the Working Group of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Part of GENDER TALKS 2025.
Three people on the asexuality spectrum come together to talk about their experiences. Our two panelists, Tasfia and e, will explore sexual liberation through challenging conformity and embracing their own ways of being asexual. Facilitated by orchi lohani, together they question compulsive hetero(sexual)normativity and “default” allosexuality, through the lens of decolonial counter imperialism, eroticism, kink and art.
A very warm welcome to everyone and specifically to people of the Global Majority, people of the Global South, people marginalized by class oppression and gender binarism and particularly people who feel connections to the Ace/Aro umbrella.
Ace Awareness Week takes place in October. You can find more details here.
Accessibility/barriers
The event room can be accessed by wheelchair users by indicating this at registration (we will then inform the venue we need access to the key-locked elevator). The talk will be held in English spoken Language without captions or translation to German or Austrian sign language.
Collaboration
Organised and financed by the Gender Research Office and financially supported by the Working Group on Equal Opportunities of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Initiated and organised by Dshamilja Gosteli.