Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Artistic fashions wax and wane, but there’s one subject that will feature in any fringe festival. We might have been at it for millions of years, but there’s always something new to say about sex.
This year’s Melbourne Fringe is awash with all things erotic, but as you’d expect, most of it’s a long way from the narrow version of sex that dominates the mainstream. Jodee Mundy is curator of Disabled and Sexy , a party that will take over Arts House in North Melbourne for a night celebrating sexuality in all its diverse forms. “I think intimacy and sexuality is both very public and very private,” Mundy says.
“There’s a major industry that revolves around it. It’s on our screens and our televisions ..
. what is not seen as often is the visibility of deaf and disabled people having intimacy and sexuality in our public realm.” Mundy says Disabled and Sexy is about reclaiming “that birthright that we all have to intimacy and sexual expression”.
She’ll co-host the night with deaf drag queen Mademoiselle Coco, alongside artists drawing on the many forms that have long been associated with the erotic: “kink and seduction, striptease, burlesque”. The party might be an opportunity to improve the visibility of under-represented artists, but it’s first and foremost a chance to blow off steam. “The deaf and disabled community spend the majority of their time advocating,.