Bounce Festival 2025 presents: Rapture and Repulsion

Rapture and Repulsion is a QueerCrip performance piece in development, written from interviews with d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists and activists. Crips talking sex and sexualities, from the good, the bad and don’t get outta bed! This is a script-in-hand reading of new work on sex and disability, up front and centre and not to be missed.

Julie McNamara (Mack) is a QueerCrip, working class Butch Dyke, and a prolific playwright, theatre and filmmaker and disability activist. Deni Francis is a mixed race brown, professional actor and writer and an Indian/Irish child of colonialism, working class, lesbian, femme, feminist, activist.

Content warning: adult themes, conversations about sex, sadomasochism, tantra, rage, and revolution.

This event is part of Bounce Festival 2025, Northern Ireland’s showcase of disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent artistic talent. Run by University of Atypical, Bounce 2025 is taking place in Belfast and Derry~Londonderry over 4 dynamic days, from 2 to 5 October. Click here for more details about the Festival and to check out the rest of the programme.