Smut Slam

Smut Slam is a fast-paced storytelling open mic centered on real-life lust, sex, and intimacy. Consenting participants can sign up when they arrive for the chance to tell a five-minute story drawn from their own experiences. Eight to ten storytellers are selected at random, and a panel of celebrity judges awards the top three with sexy prizes from Good Vibrations Harvard Square. Audience members can also submit anonymous questions and confessions for a chance to win NJOY goodies.

Hosted by Kat Sistare, the event welcomes queer, kink, vanilla, fat, and poly communities, as well as people with all levels and types of sexual experience. Stories may be funny, triumphant, sad, disturbing, poignant, serious, simple, or about an experience that did not go well. The event emphasizes consent and does not allow material involving racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, discrimination, fetishization, or objectification.

When: Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Showtimes: Doors open at 7:00 pm; the show runs from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.

Venue: The Cafe at Arts at the Armory

Tickets: $10 suggested donation; no one will be turned away.

Format: Participants sign up on the night of the event, and eight to ten names are drawn at random to tell a real story from their own lives.

Story length: Five minutes, with a one-minute grace period.

Rules: Storytellers may not use notes, costumes, or props. This is spoken storytelling rather than theater, and the story must be true and have happened to the person telling it.

Host: Kat Sistare

Prizes: A celebrity judging panel selects the top three storytellers for prizes from Good Vibrations Harvard Square. Anonymous audience questions and confessions may win NJOY products.

Schedule: Smut Slam takes place on the first Tuesday of every month.

Background: The series was created by Cameryn Moore, an award-winning playwright, performer, sex activist, and educator.