Category: Musings
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Winter Solstice Reflection
It’s the night of the winter solstice, friends. The darkest night of the year. Fittingly, I just read this essay/short story by Christopher Zeischegg. It is dark. Very, very dark. It corresponds with a short film that he just released that is NSFW as all hell and is also very, very dark. Then I sat…
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Jenelle Leigh Campion: Interview with an Artist/Healer/Witch
Please please please, go read the interview I did with artist/healer/witch Jenelle Leigh Campion for Luna Luna Magazine! Jenelle is a shamanic healer, artist in many media, podcaster, feminist, MFA holder, sacrocranial journey therapist, massage therapist, reiki master, ritualist, promoter of love, and all around badass who sells her art on the street in the…
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I Got Yer Links Right Here!
I am mostly unpacked (by which I mean my clothes, books, DVDs, and sex toys are all put away, so I’m good), and the WiFi is working, and our heat is finally fixed! So now I’m buckling down to work on my book (by which I mean scrolling thru Tumblr and Facebook and pretending it’s…
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Candida Royalle has Passed Away
I was heartbroken to return to work today and learn that legendary feminist firecracker, visionary feminist filmmaker, trailblazing toy maker, and legendary force in sex positivity Candida Royalle has passed away at age 64 from ovarian cancer.
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Luna Luna: No Safe Word (an Interview with Arrie Davidson)
I’m not going to tell you in my own words why you need to read the interview I did with Arrie Davidson, aka Faux Pas le Fae, about her new show, “No Safe Word,” debuting tomorrow night at Dixon Place. The show is a sort of movement-based performance that is Arrie processing her experiences as…
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The Autoblow Vaginal Beauty Contest… is… a thing.
Lunch meat–much like sexism–is a tradition that is bad for everyone, but which is considered totally acceptable because it’s so normal.
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I’ve Changed
I am far from perfect now, and I know that even with how far I’ve come in the past eight years, I still have very far to go. I know I’ll never achieve perfection in my worldview, my ability to articulate my thoughts, my activism. But that’s kind of the point, isn’t it?
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Ever have one of those weeks…
…where the ups and downs are so far apart that swinging between them feels like flying? Or falling? I am exhausted.
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Porn Is Better in Community. I’m Serious.
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In this context, the consumption of pornography is a shared experience about which we have different feelings and reactions. Porn becomes a text for criticizing or enjoying, just like any other form of media.