About RE/STRICT

RE/STRICT is a film and art festival based in Detroit, Michigan, that celebrates kink as political resistance. In a time when censorship escalates, pleasure is criminalized, and bodies, especially queer, trans, and racialized bodies, are targeted, we spotlight work that’s been censored, suppressed, or ignored.

This festival isn’t about shock, it’s about truth. We feature work that power has tried to silence because it exposes what repression can’t control: desire, autonomy, and the refusal to disappear. Visibility is not neutral, it’s a confrontation.

All kink is political. It breaks down purity culture, disrupts systems of control, and insists on our right to define our own bodies and desires. Through film, performance, and visual art, we share stories that unmask control dressed up as morality, uplift those most often erased, and demand the right to feel, want, and exist on our own terms.

RE/STRICT is not a safe middle ground. It’s a site of storytelling, reckoning, and resistance. We platform artists who understand that eroticism is part of survival—and that pushing back against censorship is not a side note. It’s the point.

What We Showcase

RE/STRICT features film, photography, mixed media, and live performance that:

  • Confronts the criminalization of sex work, queer pleasure, and kink, and exposes the violence of moral panic.

  • Centers fat, queer, trans, non-binary, disabled, and BIPOC artists whose work is often erased, censored, or misunderstood.

  • Rejects exploitative porn tropes and flips the male gaze on its head—with agency, context, and desire at the center.

  • Dives deep into power, consent, and what it means to resist systems that treat bodies like threats.

Who We Are

RE/STRICT is led by artists, organizers, and cultural disruptors who understand that erotic art is essential, not a luxury. Where politics and pleasure don’t just coexist—they’re inseparable. Where visibility is a weapon against erasure.

We’re not here to cater to mainstream sensibilities. We’re here to amplify the voices that have been suppressed, censored, and overlooked.

All Kink. No Apologies. This is RE/STRICT.