Introducing Matt Skully for a workshop on writing Sexual Subcultures

Matt Skully is a London-based kink practitioner and multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans live performance, events, writing and photography. His work explores both historical and modern sexuality with a primary focus on gay hedonism. 

Matt has organised and run global fetish events for 15 years, including Fetish Week London, Ziber, and Folsom Street Fair. His curation work brings together performers, artists and sex positive activists and has previously worked with Torture Garden, Sexual Freedom Awards, HOWL, Bishopgate Institute, The Barbican and Museum of London.

Matt currently runs Salon Perverse at Love Affair Basement and runs writing workshops that explore sexual subcultures.

Workshop Title: Writing Sexual Subcultures: Blurring Fact and Fiction
Duration: 2 hours
Audience: Writers, artists, creatives and readers interested in hybrid storytelling and sexual countercultures

Workshop Description:

Drawing from a wide range of texts including erotic confessionals, speculative memoirs,  and queer theory, Writing Sexual Subcultures: Blurring Fact and Fiction invites participants to read and write across boundaries. We’ll look at how historical figures fictionalised their lives to protect themselves (or their subjects), how contemporary authors play with genre to push political and personal boundaries, and how the act of blending truth with invention can serve as a form of liberation, survival, and resistance.

What We’ll Explore:

* Techniques for mixing memoir, archival material, and fictional elements\ * How authors navigate identity, anonymity, and representation\ * Ethical questions around writing real communities through fictional forms\ * The role of voice, fragmentation, and subversion in hybrid narratives\ * Writing exercises to experiment with form, truth, and storytelling
---------------------------------------------Members and non-members are welcome. You do not need to be a Club Love member to attend.

This is a 20+ event with no dress code. Come as you are, dress up, dress down, or somewhere gloriously in between.

We reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone we feel may negatively impact the experience, safety or enjoyment of other guests