We choose to laugh and fuck anyway

Writings from Cliff Media, a community-based porn production company.

Stubborn hope is not the same as toxic positivity, the idea that “everything is fine”. Everything is not fine. Systems of oppression are real and a lot of people struggle unjustly. There is good reason to be angry.

Stubborn hope is not the same as toxic positivity, the idea that “everything is fine”. Everything is not fine. Systems of oppression are real and a lot of people struggle unjustly. There is good reason to be angry.

But when systems of oppression want us to suffer, joy is a form of resistance.

This weekend, Cliff Media will be hosting our first shoot weekend of 2026, open to all good-hearted people. It’s called “Resilient Hope and Joy” with 7 scenes centering the theme of hopeful, loving moments in the cracks of hard times. Even when life feels hard – perhaps especially when life feels hard – we choose to laugh, hold each other and fuck anyway.

I am inspired, entering this weekend, by the poem “Don’t Hesitate” by Mary Oliver:

“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty
of lives and whole towns destroyed or about
to be. We are not wise, and not very often
kind. And much can never be redeemed.
Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this
is its way of fighting back, that sometimes
something happens better than all the riches
or power in the world. It could be anything,
but very likely you notice it in the instant
when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case.
Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid
of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”

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