FEELD ANNOUNCES MINDF*CK: HANNAH EINBINDER, DR. ORNA GURALNIK, MIRANDA JULY AND ALOK TAKE OVER LA'S HAMMER MUSEUM

LOS ANGELES, CA, OCTOBER 13 – Today, Feeld, the dating app for fluid exploration, announces Mindf*ck, an intimacy forum imagining new ways of understanding connection and desire, taking over Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. While most of the dating industry is still trying to fix dating as we know it. Feeld ask a different question: “If the old scripts for dating are losing their power, what could we write instead? 

Headlining the day are actor and comedian Hannah Einbinder; psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik, of Couples Therapy; and artist, filmmaker, and author Miranda July. They'll be joined by writer and performer Alok, and artist and technologist Mindy Seu, and more. Mindf*ck subverts the traditional conference panel, designed as a playground, where artists and academics gather with the Feeld community to discover, explore, and reflect.

[QUOTE HANNAH (Pending Approval): "So much of what we feel around intimacy, desire and even identity is shaped by shame we've picked up along the way, without ever asking whether we actually believe any of it," said Hannah Einbinder. "Carrying around someone else's discomfort is very generous, but at some point, enough is enough. We don't need everything figured out to have an honest conversation about desire. We can ask questions, challenge assumptions and laugh a little along the way."

The old scripts are losing their power

Modern dating is a Mindf*ck. Words don’t match actions. Realities aren’t shared. Connection fizzles when people want it to burn. The old rules are fading and the new ones haven't been written yet, so most are left working it out alone, through trial and error.

Mindf*ck takes that conversation off the app. It's an invitation to step outside the fray, let go of old thinking and consider connection from a distance. What are the conditions for intimacy? Is it the space between bodies? Becoming legible to someone else? The spark of possibility when you meet someone new?

Feeld can promise you won't get answers. Instead, expect to leave with perspectives, possibilities and a room full of people asking the same questions. Guests will move between immersive workshops, talks and intimate salons where they put new language into practice, because the future of intimacy has to be imagined together.

[DRAFT FOR APPROVAL] “We didn't want to build another conference where people sit in rows and get told what intimacy should be," said Lani Kuramato, Feeld's Chief Marketing Officer. “Our members have never followed a script, and neither have we. Everyone we're bringing together is already rewriting the rules, in their work and in their lives. Mindf*ck is the first chapter of a much bigger conversation Feeld wants to host about how people connect now."

Program Highlights

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Afters for Club Kids with A24Celebrating the release of A24’s Club Kid, Mindf*ck draws to a close with an invitation for guests to dance their way to openness and connection with an evening soundscaped by a DJ from Club Kid.

The Erotic Library, curated by The Kinsey InstituteThe Kinsey Institute – the world’s leading authority on sex research for 80 years – opens the erotic library at Mindf*ck. Their collection uncovers banned or controversial literature alongside the findings of Feeld’s State of Dating report

Mindf*ck takes place on November 11 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Tickets are available for purchase via TICKETING PLATFORM, with priority access given to Feeld members. The full program, including talks, salons and workshops, will be announced soon. For more information, visit LINK LANDING PAGE and follow along at @feeldco.

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Dr. Orna Guralnik (She/Her) is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and writer. She is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, serves on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and is the therapist and consulting producer of Couples Therapy, airing on Showtime/Paramount+.

Headshot & Bio Folder; @ornaguralnik; https://www.ornaguralnik.com/

Miranda July (She/Her), Award-winning author of All Fours. Filmmaker, Writer & Artist.

Headshot & Bio Folder; https://www.instagram.com/mirandajuly/?hl=en; https://mirandajuly.com/; passed on providing a quote

ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed poet, comedian, public speaker, and actor. ALOK’s literary works “Beyond the Gender Binary,” “Femme in Public,” and “Your Wound, My Garden,” have garnered global recognition. Their dynamic presence has captivated audiences in over 40 countries, with sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Netflix is a Joke Festival. ALOK's first comedy special BIOLOGY! [alokvmenon.com] was executive produced by Christopher Guest. They are the subject of the docu-short “ALOK” executive produced by Jodie Foster and directed by Alex Hedison, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024. On screen, they can also be seen in Complicated Order, The Trans List, and Absolute Dominion (forthcoming). On television, they can be seen on HBO's Sex Lives of College Girls, Sort Of and Random Acts of Flyness, Hulu’s Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne, and Netflix’s Gender Agenda Comedy Special and Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.

Headshot & Bio Folder; https://www.instagram.com/alokvmenon; https://alokvmenon.com/

Mindy Seu (She/Her), Artist & Technologist best known for The Cyberfeminism Index Project & Archives

Mindy Seu is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City. In 2023, she published CYBERFEMINISM INDEX, a pseudo-encyclopedic book gathering three decades of online activism and net art. Commissioned by New Museum’s Rhizome and supported by a Graham Foundation Grant, the project toured internationally through 89 performative readings across 18 countries.

In 2025, Seu began touring A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, a new lecture performance accompanied by an eponymous artist book. The project has drawn sold-out audiences internationally and led to a cover story in the Los Angeles Times. Her work has also been featured in Vanity Fair, Artforum, BBC, NPR, and Dazed, among others.

Seu holds an M.Des. from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA.

Headshot & Bio Folder; https://www.instagram.com/mindyseu/?hl=en; https://mindyseu.com/

Hannah Einbinder (She/Her), Emmy-Award Winning Actress and Comedian

Headshot & Bio Folder; https://www.instagram.com/hannaheinbinder/; https://www.hannaheinbinder.com/