oda butch

an afternoon celebrating butch identities

We embrace this fall with the second edition of Oda Butch, a multidisciplinary and collaborative gathering on butch identities.

This event is a community-based, open space for discussion and reflection on identities, intersections, archives, the meaning of words, and the elasticity of language in the current context.

A gathering that aims to celebrate, share, and highlight the diverse ways in which butch identity affects us.

program

We will have the presentation of the second issue of the publication Oda Butch, an activity for adults led by Urko (Barcelona) that addresses the topic of BDSM in queer/butch identities, and, to conclude, a striptease workshop from the perspective of queer masculinities led by Magic Dyke (Berlin).

During the event, the ‘Inventory of Butch Objects’ (2024-2025) will be on display, a photographic collection by Marta Velasco-Velasco (artist in residence at La Escocesa) that captures the relationship between bodies traversed by butch/camionera/tomboy identities and their objects. The exhibition will consist of photographs provided by queer communities from various cities.

There will also be a games area with a ping pong table, a bar area, and other spaces for socializing and relaxing.

bios

Mariana Portela Echeverri (Pt/Col) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the languages and technologies of the body through a dreamlike and experimental lens. Her work expands through drawing, sculpture or video, creating fluid scenarios where desire, danger and play co-inhabit. A graduate with an MFA from Goldsmiths University, she has exhibited internationally as well as attended artist residencies, led workshops and enjoyed production and research grants.

Lola Clavo is a filmmaker, teacher and intimacy coordinator. Her work focuses on representations of the body, gender roles and sexuality. She works with both fiction and documentary, from exploration and, often, collective creation. Clavo is a graduate of the MA in Film Directing from Goldsmiths University of London and has shown work internationally at film festivals as well as in galleries and museums.

Magic Dyke* is a masc Dyke* stripping group based in Berlin by and for sapphic, lesbian, non-binary, trans, intersex and agender people showing masc stripping from non-cis masculinities and give butches, studs, bois, mascs and genderfuckers a stage to feel sexy in a world that tells them they aren't. Since May 2022, Magic Dyke* creates sensational shows and provides a party that is a safe space for the SLINTA* (sapphic, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, transgender, agender) community in Berlin. A safe door policy that doesn't judge based on appearance, queer SWer-led SLINTA*-only darkroom, sex-positive atmosphere and effort to make it as inclusive an environment as they can. Through them, people get to see butches, studs and other sapphics with masc expression being seen as sexy, creating a sense of euphoria in all those who identify with or are attracted to butchness.

E. Urko is part of the BDSM and transfeminist scene. Co-founder of the Post-Op collective, a pioneer in Spain in dissident pornographic practices and a reference point in the post-porn scene. They work highlights non-normative bodies, desires, and sexualities through workshops, installations, video creation, and direct action. They alliance with functional diversity activism is particularly noteworthy. He currently works at the BDSM School and in body empowerment and experimentation workshops, addressing the intersections between bodies, desires, and practices from a critical perspective.

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