Evan Tepest & Philisha Kay: "Sind Penisse real?"

Together with artist Philisha Kay, Evan Hugo Tepest will come to silent green to celebrate the release of his new book.

“Ever since I can remember, I was convinced that without a penis, I couldn’t be a man.” Evan is in his mid-thirties when he begins his transition. In the chaos of his new masculinity, he searches for answers about what penises mean to him—for his body, his self-image, for who he was, who he is, and who he can become. In society and in bed. To find out, he talks to people—with and without penises—about fear and power, cultural history and its significance, sexuality, size, and fantasies. And he writes disarmingly openly about a body part that is much more than that.

In Are Penises Real?, sexual desire meets the constraints of prevailing norms, literature and theory meet belief, the feeling subject meets the patriarchy, centuries-old gender concepts meet radical openness. An eye-opening essay—brilliantly smart, personal, and political.
 

Evan Hugo Tepest lives in Berlin and works as an author. His essay Sind Penisse real? (Are Penises Real?) will be published by Piper Verlag in August 2025. His first novel, Schreib den Namen deiner Mutter (Write Your Mother's Name), was published in 2024, and his essay collection Power Bottom in 2023. His texts have also appeared in anthologies and magazines, most recently in ER: Erotic Review (London) and DANKE - Das Fan-Fiction-Magazin (Basel/Berlin).

Philisha Kay, artist, curatorial assistant, and member of the collective dgtl fmsnm, which stands for feminist, queer, and tech-positive perspectives on technology narratives, deals with (posthuman) identity, art, and the queer-feminist use of technology. Her focus is particularly on the potential of (digital) imaginaries and technologies as subversive tools for the creative (de)construction of the self and for the aesthetic reconception of gendered (bodily) reality. Philisha lives in Berlin and works on a freelance basis in various capacities, such as (digital) designer, curator, and moderator.
 

The event is a collaboration between Buchbox and PIPER.

Friday, September 5
Kuppelhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 7:30 pm
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