KINK OUT INCARNATE is a living altar to leather histories, turning fantasies, archives, and scholarship into flesh-and-blood activations. 

PARTY · PERFORMANCE ART · PANEL · PHOTO EXHIBITION

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Bootblacks connect the leather community to its roots – its lust for leather, the queer intimacies and archives forged through revered objects, its commitments to mutual aid, and the scent of Huberd’s in a dark, crowded basement. As an intergenerational practice passed on through mentorship, most bootblacks carry on the legacies of those who came before them; legacies they massage into the leathers of those lucky enough to take a seat on their stands. In this conversation moderated by Tina Horn, Daijah Flames (NEBB 2024), Q (IMsBB 2008, SELFBB 2007), Rocket, and Tamara Santibañez will discuss bootblacking as a practice of leather care, leather community, and leathersex. 

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Did you know trans sadomasochism creates possibilities for new bodies, new selves, new genders? Did you know dungeons are laboratories for gender and sexual experimentation? Ignacio Rivera and Susan Stryker do. And they can’t wait to show and tell you how. This event will start with a screening of one of Rivera’s films.

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An afternoon of provocative short films celebrating a range of sexual expression. Films by Cassils, Peter Cage, Odette Engle & Mistrix Sade, Johnny Mustang & Layla Jayne, Cleo Ouyang with MJ Tom, Riven Ratanavanh & Eva Tusquets. Hosted by Natasha Gornik. Q&A to follow.

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Is sadism ever ethical and, if so, when? What about moments when our sadistic impulses are recruited by our own histories of violence and oppression? Is that violence, traumatic repetition, or, perhaps, something else entirely? A discussion with Yin Q, Avgi Saketopoulou, and Kassandra Sparks.

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Leather as skin. Leather as subversion and reanimation of medical disenfranchisement. In transgression there is always the possibility of infection, of invasion, of intimacy. Leathersex as embodiment that exceeds the human, turning bodies into toys and toys into bodies. A night of performance, art, and archive with KING COBRA, Laura Westengard, and Empress Wu.

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Ariane Cruz and Mama Vi Johnson discuss the “politics of perversion” in leathersex and legacies of pleasure for Black leatherpeople. They’ll draw on Cruz’s scholarship on Black women in kink and Johnson’s experience as a leather elder. Kink Out’s Ze R. will then moderate a discussion with in-person attendees, centering BIPOC queer and leatherpeople.

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Kink Out has our sights set on big dreams for NYC leather events in 2024. We are ready to throw down on our home turf. And what better place to do that then the sacred stomping ground that was The Hellfire Club. The bar that now holds that space is closing for good. It’s time for one last leather night to send the space on its way. Whatever you do, just do not let anything touch that infamous floor. 

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We’ve spotted you across the bar and we really like your vibe… Kink Out cordially invites you to Le Salon du Cuir, a Parisian meetup for queer kinky folks.

Kink Out invites you to cross through an evolving door of erotic possibility…in leather. Anyone into cruising, playing, sharing an array of deviant talents and inspiration-WE WANT YOU.

On International Wh*res’ Day 2022, Los Angeles’ The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and Kink Out, in collaboration with Free Speech Coalition and Strippers United, are creating a space for sex worker rights orgs and allies to come together.

On the fourth day of Eyebeam’s From the Rupture, Kink Out and Veil Machine are launching the Body of Workers platform, along with a full afternoon of programming.

Veil Machine cordially invite you to E-VICTION, a digital arthouse wh0re gallery and protest platform.

Watch sex workers + organizers in a live conversation and Q&A around art-making as resistance, mutual aid, and the “whorestories” of zine-making.

To honor the 45th International Whores’ Day, sex workers of NYC are staging a digital rally to join the annual protests that take place globally.

Large-scale program featuring performances, screenings, panels, and immersive presentations centering NYC’s kink/leather and sex work communities.

Join Kink Out’s kd diamond and DaemonumX for a DIY Design Workshop inside MoMA PS1’s VW Dome!

Kink Out presents a day of storytelling, zine making, and community building for kink and sex working people and allies.

Join Kink Out’s kd diamond for a class inside MoMA PS1’s Dome to learn the art of bootblacking!

Bow Down is a conversation between queer kink sex workers who discuss their particular field of sex work and how their sex careers inform their activism.

Red Canary SCREAMS is a fundraiser for Red Canary Song and a historic grand gathering of the Asian American underground. Queer, burlesque, drag, fetish, tattoo, and circus communities UNITE!

[K]INK OUT is a fundraising event in response to FOSTA/SESTA celebrating the artistry and intersection of the tattoo, kink, and sex worker communities.

Tiona Nekkia McClodden invites BDSM educator/practitioner/ritualist and sex work activist Yin Q to screen their web series Mercy Mistress and to take over the space with their BDSM party KINK OUT.

Mercy Mistress is hosting Kink Out: a night of celebrating diversity in the BDSM / KINK lifestyle. Free Event. Free Drinks. Free Your Kink.