Gender Talks: 20 October 2025, 19:00 CEST (= GMT / UCT + 2:00)

orchi lohani, Tasfia and e: Uncharted desires –asexuality’s many faces

C3, Alois Wagner-Saal, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Wien and online (link will be sent upon registration)

Accessibility/barriers: The event room can be accessed by wheelchair users by indicating this at registration (we will then inform the venue we need access to the key-locked elevator). The talk will be held in English spoken Language without captions or translation to German or Austrian sign language.

Three people on the asexuality spectrum come together to talk about their experiences. Our two panelists, Tasfia and e, will explore sexual liberation through challenging conformity and embracing their own ways of being asexual. Facilitated by orchi lohani, together they question compulsive hetero(sexual)normativity and “default” allosexuality, through the lens of decolonial counter imperialism, eroticism, kink and art.

A very warm welcome to everyone and specifically to people of the Global Majority, people of the Global South, people marginalized by class oppression and gender binarism and particularly people who feel connections to the Ace/Aro umbrella.

  • Moderation and organisation: orchi lohani
  • Duration: 60min without break
  • Format: on site, hybrid via Zoom
  • Free – no entrance fees
  • Registration required: Register now
  • Collaboration: Organised and financed by the Gender Research Office and financially supported by the Working Group on Equal Opportunities of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Initiated and organised by Dshamilja Gosteli. 

Logo

A drawn starscape, with the asexuality flag colours on the left, a drawn earth to the right of it, and a fish with two legs in the bottom right corner

Photo of e: a person with wide, dark clothes in the desert, shown from behind, a piece of cloth in their hands blown back by the wind

e

Photo of Tasfia

Tasfia

Photo of orchi lohani

orchi lohani

Logo of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

financially supported by the Working Group on Equal Opportunities of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna