ABOUT

Hot Bits is a traveling queer porn film festival. At the festival's fullest it’s rounded out by workshops, live performances, visual art exhibitions, QnA’s, a match making cupid, elder honoring, trauma informed chill space with support folx, sex positive vendors local to the festival's location and afterparties for connecting on the dance floor, dungeon, and LGBTQI strip club! 

MISSION

Hot Bits is organized by a majority QTIBIPoC (queer, trans, intersex, Black, Indigenous, People of Color) all volunteer collective who design sex-positive experiences centering QTIBIPoC self determined desire, joy, and pleasure. We operate under a DIT (do-it-together) ethos of care for ourselves, each other, and community. We seek to highlight underrepresented bodies as a means to celebrate anti-oppressive queer/trans porn tailored towards experiences, acts and stories often deemed marginal by mainstream society.

VISION

Hot Bits strives to create generative trans/queer sex/kink positive pleasure-full spaces/worlds as a remedy to the oppressive cultural and political forces we typically have to navigate on a daily basis. We envision and move towards worlds that encourage consent, connection, expansive displays of pleasure, uncensored self-determined art, sexual experimentation/play, individual/collective healing, and accountability. We shape nuanced and spacious representations of inter-generational, disabled, and fat folx are centered, supported, and celebrated. We envision a world in the not so distant future where we all are fairly compensated for all our work!

VALUES

  • We believe in dismantling and undoing anti-Blackness, ableism, fatphobia, transphobia, homophobia, misogynoir, hetero-patriarchy, whorephobia and other articulations of white supremacist, capitalist, and settler-colonial culture.

  • We seek to bring underrepresented bodies to the screen as a means to cultivate experimental and anti-oppressive queer/trans porn ecosystems.

  • We value being in public together, sharing and experiencing communal laughter, tears, turn-ons, and turn-offs!

  • We believe in intentionally exploring the vast and juicy worlds of pleasure, sex and kink as a means to hold and titillate our communities.

  • We believe in the healing powers of sharing trauma-informed sexually liberatory spaces with tenderness, care, and support. 

  • We say fuck off to dominant culture’s definitions of desirability.

  • We value bodily autonomy and self-determination, including that of young people and intersex individuals to be free from genital mutilation and for youth to have access to trans affirming care

  • We value physical, emotional, and financial accessibility.  We prioritize ADA accessibility, gender neutral bathrooms, sliding scale tickets, masking requirements and other covid precautions, ASL translation, captions, content warnings, fat accessible seating, emotional support folks on-site, and harm reduction resources. 

  • We value all forms of consent on and off screen. We believe survivors. We support the contribution of the Performer Bill of Rights to the genre and the increased thoughtfulness on sets fore-fronted by the addition of intimacy and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) coordinators to film crews.

  • We recognize sex work is work! We value the vast contributions of sex workers to society and the field of pornography. We advocate for decriminalization and destigmatization. 

  • We honor our elders and ancestors, and are proud to be a part of the legacies which have made it possible for us to be so open and perverted. 

  • We believe in cultivating intergenerational community art spaces as fertile grounds to imagine the worlds we long for.

  • We acknowledge the devastating history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic; from the loss of countless lives to its impact on queer sexual culture, rights, and dignity. 

  • We believe in the destigmatization of STIs and advocate for shame-free and informative sex education.

  • We welcome feedback from our communities and invite folks in to help us to shape the spaces we create collaboratively.