17/05/2026
Does the sight of me make you squirm? Does it give you the creeps? Juliette Puch .puch and Gemma Saboritt make our hairs stand on end - ‘ponen los pelos de punta’ in their s*x positive, feminist s*x-worker-driven film takeover, ‘Pelos de Punta’, at Kubrick’s Korova Milkbar is served a kick in the teeth - or the balls! (spoiler alert of ‘s ‘Pikachu V. Piñera’) - as the duo lug a refrigerator from street to auditorium, reciting their manifesto of ‘preciosas pero precarias’. Like a pair of handymen hired to do the manual lifting in bejewelled corsets and dagger heels, their entry upsets the social borders cast between the private and public, the legible and illegible, questioning what forms of labour are considered palpable and worthy of public recognition. Documenting their work, they puncture the artifice of heteronormativity, as observed by Michael Warner and Lauren Berlant in their 1998 essay ‘Sex in Public’. Sinking back into the armchair, I devour the documentaries and cinematic shorts, from Fara Renaud’s .j.renaud touching, Greta Gerwin-esque ode to friendship, ‘Dyson’ to Juliette Puch’s .puch potent, pleasure-Domme, ‘Pussy Honey’ - my visceral reactions uncontained, they muddle in collective osmosis with the remaining audience’s. Exposing their lived experiences in a normative, public environment of the local cinema, the collective of artists and s*x workers, alongside researcher .ndreacorral.s legitimise what our society deems illicit or dissident, reminding us the borders we maintain are more porous than they seem.
*xpositive *xworkers feminism
