The Shape of Desire: Eros, Aesthetics & Editorial Resistance
In a time of rising repression—when rights, pleasures, and identities face increased policing—what role does the erotic play in imagining alternative futures?
This panel brings together Fluffer Everyday Magazine, Frisson, and Chéri Magazine—three independent publications exploring desire, intimacy, and seduction from queer sensuality and kink to visual art and cultural longing. Amid authoritarian threats to bodily and creative autonomy, we ask: Can pleasure and longing be forces of disruption? How might eroticism open portals into other ways of being, seeing, and surviving? Curated by Lubi Barre.
Fluffer Everyday, Frisson, and Chéri are independent magazines that center queer, erotic, and body-based storytelling. Through text, image, and experimental design, they reclaim sensuality as a site of resistance, softness, and radical imagination.
Fluffer Everyday Magazine is an erotic publication presenting stimulation in the everyday. The purpose of this project is to promote body and sex positivity and blur the lines of what is considered sexy and "normal", focusing on the moment rather than the gender or societal standards.
Frisson is an biannual magazine exploring sexuality, pleasure, politcs and intersectionality. With a slow, immersive and inclusive editorial approach, Frisson blends long-form journalism, photography, illustration and graphic novels to challenge norms with a fresh, artistic, and ironic touch
Chéri Magazine explores the emotional connection between art and eroticism, delving into the concept of eros—the passionate desire that stirs the soul. Rather than focusing on the purely physical expressions of love, Chéri seeks out contemporary forms of eros, examining how desire, beauty, and love emerge in today’s cultural conversations. Can art still seduce us in the digital age?
