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SUMMARY:Drones\, Puppies\, and Mecha Pilots: Erotic Styles Beyond Cisness
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DESCRIPTION:Drones\, Puppies\, and Mecha Pilots: Erotic Styles Beyond Cisne
	ss - Dr. Jay\nSzpilka\, SWPS University\, Warsaw\, Poland - 4:00 PM\, 04 M
	ay 2026\, Kleinau\nTheatre\, 2nd Floor Communications Building\, Informal 
	reception to follow.\n\nThis talk is meant to analyze a number of contempo
	rary\, trans feminine erotic\nstyles that are flourishing online. Drone ki
	nk\, puppygirls\, mechsploitation –\nall those names denote a specifically
	 trans feminine erotic aesthetics\, deeply\nembedded in the history of alt
	ernative pornographic productions\, while also\nspeaking to the particular
	ities of trans desire. In this talk\, Dr. Szpilka hopes\nto not only show 
	the importance of those styles as they are\, but also argue that\nthey rep
	resent an attempt to move erotic productions outside of the cisness that\n
	has thus far defined much of the Western “Pornographic imagination\,” to b
	orrow\nSusan Sontag’s Famous phrase.
URL:https://www.carbondale.info/event/drones-puppies-and-mecha-pilots-eroti
	c-styles-beyond-cisness
LOCATION:Kleinau Theatre\, 2nd Floor Communications Building\, SIU - 1100 L
	incoln Drive\, Carbondale\, IL 62901
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:LGBTQ,transgender
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Drones, Puppies, and Mecha Pilots: Erotic S
	tyles Beyond Cisness - Dr. Jay Szpilka, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland - 
	4:00 PM, 04 May 2026, Kleinau Theatre, 2nd Floor Communications Building, 
	Informal reception to follow.</p><p>This talk is meant to analyze a number
	 of contemporary, trans feminine erotic styles that are flourishing online
	. Drone kink, puppygirls, mechsploitation – all those names denote a speci
	fically trans feminine erotic aesthetics, deeply embedded in the history o
	f alternative pornographic productions, while also speaking to the particu
	larities of trans desire. In this talk, Dr. Szpilka hopes to not only show
	 the importance of those styles as they are, but also argue that they repr
	esent an attempt to move erotic productions outside of the cisness that ha
	s thus far defined much of the Western “Pornographic imagination,” to borr
	ow Susan Sontag’s Famous phrase.</p>
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