The lithic beckons and pulsates for the ultimate erotic decision, a mockery of the well-established normative monolith and the girlish giggles that echo within. Lithoerotics examines the promiscuous relationality between girls and stones: gathered among Hanging Rocks, scavenging pebble collections, petrifying abusive men.

Here, we trace a return to repressed identificatory intimacies and curtailed carnal desires requiring the gritty summoning of a mineral ethos long pathologised as hysterics—a frenzied disarray against an unfeeling disciplinary state. We uncover vibrant vitality among the ruins of girls lapidified on plinths, then demolished as hard-hearted. Excavating geonarratives and following girl geographies through stony space, we encounter moments of lithoeroticism which demand posthuman encounters which queer human agency with a mineral counter. 

Through a series of micro-essays and experiments in anti-design, this zine hews fresh observations between girlhood and the lithic. We tussle with stone butches and princesses with pillows made from pebbles; refuse to navigate London’s lithic landscape; and ceilidh against the petrification of beautiful girls.

35 pp., 210 x 148.5mm