Sweatmother, Amelia Abraham & Nasir Anthony Montalvo: ‘Sex, Clubs, Dissent’ [Talk & Screening]

This one-off event brings together artists and archivists working across queer nightlife histories. Amelia Abraham will discuss the making of her new book Sex, Clubs, Dissent, joined by contributors sharing their work: Sweatmother presents their new short film lick spittle (2025) and reflects on dyke and transmasculine archives, and Nasir Anthony Montalvo introduces {B/qKC}, a community archive of Black queer Midwestern history, followed by a short screening of Frequency: An Interview with Starla Carr (2025). 

The evening continues in the Upper Bar after the event. 

TICKETS

Wednesday 13 May
18:45

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London 
SW1Y 5AH
United Kingdom

About Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife 

Edited by Amelia Abraham, the book traces an expansive visual history of queer nightlife through photography, film and art. It considers how image-making has impacted the formation of queer practices, subcultures and resistance, asking what our enduring impulse to document nightlife reveals about pleasure, protest and politics. 

Can't make it? Order the book here. 

Image Credit: Efrain Gonzalez, On the West Side Highway, 1982