Julien MARCELLE

My name is Julien Marcelle,  a gender fluid, androgynous, pansexual, polyamorous person. Sensitive feminist and queer artist, i'm a videographer and performing arts technician, expressing myself in multiple ways, from writing erotic novels to role-playing, dancing, post-porn filmmaking, and organizing sex-positive events.

Born in 1983 in Mons (in the south of Belgium), not really good at studying, I organised a bunch of concert, played drums like an animal, and spent most of my time in pen & paper role-playing games. I moved in Brussels around 2010 to study cinema at the INSAS school, and learned all I could about editing movies, starting an intense phase of life dedicated to fictions and documentaries. In parallel, I became theater technician, wanting to not spend all my life in a dark room with a screen, but also in a dark room wiht a stage.

In 2015, I joined the association Sex-Positive Belgium, and this is where I really got all the intellectual and ethical roots to make my first steps into the sex-positive universe. I've learned a lot, about the complexity of consent, about non-monogamy, about my own sexuality, about the nuances of my own gender and other's, about safer sex, about how to express your desire, etc. It was a real school to me. After some event organisation and sharing some structural skills, I became part of the coordination committee for two years, and one as treasurer. It gave me the grounding needed to be able to open my wings and fly my own way, outside of the framing of the umbrella organisation.

In 2020, I co-founded a sex-positive cohousing in Forest, nicknamed Scala Rosa. I lived there for four years, during which I have organized workshops on consent, on Power Play, on fantasies, some sex-parties (the famous Night of Love and Freedom), multiple porn projects, staged intense fantasy plays, and hosted some discussion circles on polyamory and relationship anarchy. During these events, we welcomed lesbians, gays, heteros, queers, straights, cis, trans, asexuals, person of color,  polyamorous, monogamous, aromantics, the shy and the outgoing, the artist and the accountant, the slut and the prude, whatever. We just wanted to create a nice safe space to work our sex-positivity deeper, to teach and to learn. This experience has allowed me to develop a fairly substantial network, and made me bloom so much that I decided to completely focus on sex-positive activities. This is where I belong and this is what makes me happy.

2024, Scala Rosa ends, and I have to find a new place to continue the ambitious adventure. Finally, I move in Etterbeek, where my lover had bought a house with her other partner some years ago. Living together with the polycule ? Scary ! To be honest, such proximity is usually tricky to handle. But actually, for us, it's all the contrary. It created a synergy that goes beyond our expectations, we empower each other in numerous ways, and now I'm organizing again some great events, sweet artistic projects, and educative sex-positive experiences, with better support than ever before <3 Tadaaa !