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with Carol Queen and Jen Cross
Every fourth Wednesday of the month
May circle: 5/27/09, 7:30-9:30pm
At the Center for Sex and Culture
1519 Mission @ 11th, San Francisco
Come join readers *tomorrow evening* for the Erotic Reading Circle and share your sexy writing! Bring something to read or just be part of the appreciative circle of listeners. This is a great place to try out new work (ask for comments if you like), or get more comfortable reading for other people. Longtime writers will bring their latest... newly inspired writers, bring that vignette you scrawled on BART while daydreaming on your way to work! Non-judgmental listening guaranteed, all orientations welcome. Carol Queen and Jennifer Cross host/facilitate this space dedicated to erotic writers and readers! Sugg. ERC donation: $5-up sliding scale, but no one turned away for lack of funds.
Also -- have you been thinking about writing your erotic memoirs? Need a kick-start? Carol Queen has begun a monthly erotic memoir writing group, entitled Sex & Memory: Writing from Your Own Experience on Wednesdays: March 25, April 22, May 27, June 24, and onward, 5:30-7pm (Note: just before the Erotic Reading Circle!). She's will treat this class as a series, but people can attend individual classes too. Cost: $10-30 sliding scale per class. Check out the link above for more information or to register (that's sexandculture.org). Carol will be away this month, so I'll get to pinch-hit for her at Sex and Memory, and then we'll move right into the ERC -- so come on down, and create some new work
Can't make it this month? The June ERC will be on 6/24, right smack in the middle of Pride Week!
Write to jennifer@writingourselveswhole.org or visit www.sexandculture.org for more information!
At The Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission St, between 11th & So. Van Ness
Writing Ourselves Whole
Summer 2009!
This summer, re-engage with your writing self!
Join us in one of our exercise-initiated and non-judgmental AWA writing workshops:
Write Whole: Survivors Write
Monday evenings, 6/1 - 7/27
Open to all women survivors of sexual trauma
Declaring Our Erotic: Reclaim your sexuality
Tuesday evenings, 6/2 - 7/28
Open to all queer/lesbian/same-gender-loving women survivors of sexual trauma
Raw Silk: Women write desire
A Saturday Intensive retreat, June 20!
Open to all women.
o In the Write Whole: Survivors Write workshop, you'll gather with other survivors of sexual trauma to create new art and new beauty out of life's difficult and complicated realities. Learn to trust the flow of your own writing, and receive immediate feedback about the power of your words!
o In the Declaring Our Erotic: Reclaim your sexuality workshop, you'll gather with other survivors to create a space in which we write our full, complex sexualities. We respond to exercises dealing with different aspects of our sexual selves: memory, fantasy, experience, relationship with the body, and more! Get more comfortable exploring and talking about sexual desires while practicing explicit erotic writing.
o In the Raw Silk: Women write desire Saturday writing retreat, you'll spend the day wrapped in the language of desire, celebrating your own complex textures of sensuality. We'll delve into a new thread in the interweaving of our desires, and create new writing that may just surprise you! Treat yourself to a day of good writing, great food, and powerful community! Breakfast and lunch are provided. Experience your fully-empowered writing voice in this confidential, and fun erotic writing workshop.
Remember: identity categories like 'woman' and 'survivor' are self-defined!
No previous writing experience necessary! Workshops held in San Francisco in an accessible space, a half-block from BART and on many MUNI lines. Spaces are still available, though limited, and pre-registration is required! Fee for each eight-week workshop is $250; fee for Saturday intensive retreat is $100.
To write with us, contact Jen at jennifer@writingourselveswhole.org.
For more information, please visit www.writingourselveswhole.org!
Note! It's true that this summer's workshops are all only open to women; however, this fall we'll have workshops open to all again. Watch this space, and thanks!
Future Fire magazine
<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/greatnewbooksthatareamustread/~3/-2czaxliqvu> Seeking Feminist Science Fiction Entries
Posted: 20 Apr 2009 05:35 AM PDT
The Future Fire magazine (http://futurefire.net) is accepting submissions
for a themed Feminist Science Fiction issue toward the end of this year or
the beginning of 2010 (as long as it takes us to acquire the requisite
number of stories). By "feminist" we do not mean stories necessarily written
by women or featuring female protagonists; what we are interested in are
science fiction (or speculative) stories that address issues of gender,
sexual identity and sexuality; stories that take the "radical idea that
women are human beings" and do something about it; stories that can engage,
empower, educate, and inspire men and women alike. And of course stories
that challenge our expectations, that avoid cliché, that are beautiful and
useful, that are social, political, and speculative cyberfiction.
Please follow the usual submission guidelines
(http://futurefire.net/about/contrib.ht
letter that this is a submission for the Feminist Science Fiction special
issue. Stories submitted to the general pile will be considered for the
feminist themed issue, and stories submitted to the theme will be considered
for the intervening issues. This will in no way affect our selection
criteria or standards: we shall still purchase only the best stories we
receive.
For more background, see the editorial to issue #15 at
http://futurefire.net/2009.15/
(x-posted on facebook)
First I was on tour (Body Heat 2009: amazing gratitude to my co-tourers kathleen, meliza, vagina, and to all the folks who came out to our shows/workshops in Portland, Seattle, Ashland, San Francisco, Oakland), and then I came home with Teh Koff-Sick (I was so sure that it had passed me over, and then on passover, it caught me -- ok, not exactly on passover, but that was a pretty good line, huh?), and then I received a message from my father that my grandmother was beginning the slow transition toward death.
I want to tell you more about it, about all of it, but I'm back at work now, after nearly a week spent with family on the midwest Plains, mourning, laughing, vigil-ing, struggling, goodbying, singing, hello-ing, remembering. Network problems are keeping me from continuing with my work, so I'm sending you this little note to say hello, say that I've been reading your posts though I haven't been keeping up with replying.
There's moving forward with what's been lost, over and over again -- and with what's been gained.
More soon. xo and thanks.
Body Heat Returns!
March 21-30, our fierce Queer Femme Porn Tour fires up the West Coast.
Are you ready? We'll be in San Francisco and Oakland 3/26-3/28 for three shows and an erotic writing workshop!
The second installment of Body Heat: The Femme Porn Tour is set to hit the road March 21st, 2009 with the tour beginning in Portland, Oregon and ending in Los Angeles, California.
Our 2009 line-up will feature Body Heat founder and spoken-word performer kathleen delaney (Atlanta, GA), Writing Ourselves Whole founder and erotic writer Jen Cross (San Francisco, CA), award-winning Burlesque / Erotic Dance performer Vagina Jenkins (Atlanta, GA) and Sister Spit vet, former slam champion, filmmaker, and writer Meliza Bañales (San Francisco, CA).
Adding to their arsenal of erotic song, dance, camp, poetry, and prose, the femmes will be joined by special guests along their various stops. Celebrated sexologist and co-founder of the Center for Sex and Culture, Dr. Carol Queen and co-founder of SIR Productions, lesbian porn peddler/director, and erotic writer Shar Rednour, the devastating Vixen Noir (aka Veronica C. Combs) and the outstanding Alex Cafarelli and Anna Joy Springer will be just a few of the many special guests that will join the tour in cities across the Pacific Northwest.
The tour supports and promotes queer femmes in their contributions to erotica, the sex industry, the sex-positive movement, and in forming a more complex sexual identity through art and performance.
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Body Heat's March 2009 tour dates - see 3/26 to 3/28 for the Bay Area info:
21 Mar 2009 4pm
In Other Words, Portland, OR. @ In Other Words
22 Mar 2009 7pm
Writing workshop at The Center For Sex Positive Culture in Seattle, WA
23 Mar 2009 9pm
Performance at Center For Sex Positive Culture in Seattle, WA
25 Mar 2009 8pm
Performance at Stillwater, Ashland, OR.
26 Mar 2009 7pm
Performance at Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6
27 Mar 2009 8pm
Performance at Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6
28 Mar 2009 1pm - 4pm
Sex Writing Workshop @ Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6
28 Mar 2009 7pm
Body Heat at The Butch / Femme social - Oakland, CA @ The Velvet
29 Mar 2009 8pm
Performance at The Rubber Rose @ The Rubber Rose, San Diego, CA
30 Mar 2009
Possible finale in Los Angeles!
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Body Heat would like to shout out tremendous thanks to The Lloyd E. Russell Foundation for your generous grant to fund our 2009 Tour, as well as to Carol Queen and The Center for Sex & Culture for your endless support!
The tour is still accepting bookings and can be contacted through Myspace at www.myspace.com/femmeswriteporn. The site also holds their tour blog and upcoming tour dates. If you are a queer femme who specializes in smutty poetry, burlesque, queer porn, and/or performance and would like to perform with the femmes on one of their stops, you can also contact them at femmeswriteporn@yahoo.com.
please spread the word!
Pisces (February 19-March 20)
I've been asked by the leaders of the Piscean Support Group to pat you on the back -- and add a tender, friendly kick in the butt while I'm at it -- in celebration of your recent promise to leave your safety zone. They're a bit worried that you'll be so enamored of the new reserve of courage you've discovered lurking in your depths that you won't muster the incentive to actually use that courage to its hilt. Please prove them wrong. Show us all what it's like for a sensitive soul with a lyrical heart to seek raw adventure in virgin territory.
aha ... such a good good loving calling out
"Best Erotic Resurrection"
EROTIC READING CIRCLE
with Carol Queen and Jen Cross
Every fourth Wednesday of the month
January circle: 2/25/09, 7:30-9:30pm
At the Center for Sex and Culture
1519 Mission @ 11th, San Francisco
Come join readers next Wednesday and share your erotic writing & art! Bring something to read or just be part of the appreciative circle of listeners. This is a great place to try out new work (ask for comments if you like), or get more comfortable reading for other people. Longtime writers will bring their latest... newly inspired writers, bring that vignette you scrawled on BART while daydreaming on your way to work! Non-judgmental listening guaranteed, all orientations welcome. Carol Queen and Jen Cross host/facilitate this space dedicated to erotic writers and readers!
Sugg. donation: $5-up sliding scale, but no one turned away for lack of funds.
At The Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission St, between 11th & So. Van Ness
Write to jennifer@writingourselveswhole.org or visit www.centerforsexandculture.org for more information!
Today's post - question lists as writing prompts!
I'm through that first list of questions from the Arts and Healing Network, and so am creating my own list of questions to tackle on the Writing Ourselves Whole blog... we've gotta do what we've gotta do to keep the writing coming, no? :)
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