Can Artists Save the World From a Sexual Dystopia?

In this 5-minute Ignite talk, recorded in November 2024 in Oakland, I deliver a fast-paced presentation featuring 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. I explore our cultural fascination with dystopias and highlight the vital role art plays in shaping culture.

author, artist, performer, and provocateur

About Me

I’m Polly Superstar—a passionate advocate for gender and sexual diversity.

My work is a celebration of the richness of human sexuality. Through writing, poetry, sculpture, painting, mixed media, interactive installations, performance art, and ritual, I delve deep into the complexities of sexuality, gender, pleasure, empowerment, and social justice.

I support artists, writers, and creatives from sexual, relationship, and romantic minorities (AKA queers, sluts, and perverts) to help break through blocks and birth projects. I create spaces where our voices are heard and valued.

Writers’ Retreats

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Writers’ Retreats *

Have you struggled to find a writing community where you don’t feel othered or shamed for your orientation, identity, or choices? Do you feel the need to hide your true self? This space is dedicated to you—the sex and gender pioneers—& your stories.

I host hot spring writers' retreats and online writing sessions for gender rebels, kinky sluts, queers, relationship pioneers, love anarchists, radical monogamists, polymorphous polyamorists, and the people who love them.

Art

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Art *

I love to create transformational experiences that remove the line between audience and artist, engaging everyone involved in a deeply personal yet shared adventure. Simultaneously taboo and intimate, sexuality powerfully and viscerally affects our consciousness and, therefore, provides the perfect context for such experiences.

Kinky Salon

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Kinky Salon *

“I hope that everyone who attends a Kinky Salon experiences a shift in their consciousness, or learns something new about themselves. Perhaps they release a long-held perspective about gender or sexuality, or they just let their hair down enough to feel a sense of liberation.
I want to create a space that feels safe, fun, and different enough from everyday life that people explore outside their comfort zone.”