Safe Sex? Sexuality, Labor & Censorship In Tina Horn’s Dystopian Fiction

Comic book art
  • Monster Smash Workshop
    Tuesday, Oct. 31, 7-9 p.m.
    Scheuer Room
  • Keynote – Shadowbanned Nation: The Lust, Labor, and Genders THEY Don’t Want You to Read About!
    Thursday, Nov. 2, 4:30-6 p.m.
    SCI 101, Chang Hou Hall
  • Libraries Exhibit – CENSuality: Gender and Sexuality in an Age of Censorship
    Oct. 3–Nov. 26
    McCabe Library, second floor

Tina Horn is a queer feminist writer, activist, educator, and media maker. In her acclaimed comic book series, SfSx (Safe Sex), Horn captures a dystopian America of the future, in which sexuality is severely bureaucratized, policed, and criminalized by a conservative political group known as The Party. In a present-day political climate that does not feel like a far cry from this fictional landscape, SfSx offers a critical perspective on: the cost of safety; assimilation and survival; sexual freedom; censorship and deviance; passing privilege; and experiences of joy or pleasure in the face of marginalization and oppression. Horn’s keynote lecture will touch upon the topics of printing and publishing sexual material, censorship, sex work as work, and comics as a political medium, with the SfSx comic series as a central component.