Prof. Katrien Jacobs will launch her new book The Afterglow of Women’s Pornography in Post-Digital China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) at 7pm on 23 October 2015(Fri) in Art & Culture Outreach (14/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai).

Jacobs will give a short illustrated talk while inviting artists, scholars and activists to comment on topics such as pornography and pleasure, eroticism and sex during the (post) Umbrella movement, sex entertainment for left-over women and men, diy porn and capitalism, government surveillance and Internet censorship. The event will come with refreshments and the audience will be invited to join the pleasure-paranoia debate.  Special guest appearances by Egret Chow and Wong Ka-Yin.