Lesbian Werewolf Party with Biting Booth, Bootblacking and more!
Lunatic Fringe Book Release Party El Rio 3158 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Thursday, September 29, 2011 9pm to close Preorder books and pickup at the event! PLUS: Boot blacking by the International Ms. Bootblack herself, kd diamond. Biting booth manned by queer porn icon Jiz Lee. Gift bags full of goodies for Alpha Pass holders A special sneak-peek reading by yours truly! Awesome raffle prizes from Crystal Delights, Pink & White, Miss Monster Mel, Wolf Princess, Cleis Press,...
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Shapeshifting as a metaphor for sexual evolution is a fairly prevalent trope. Werewolves, after all, are the mythological manifestation of a human’s animal nature, the unbridled id focused on the “3 Fs” : feeding, fighting, and sex. I just returned from seeing the season’s hit, Black Swan. The movie takes its own stab at the shapeshifting/sexual-awakening trope. Yet, instead of a werewolf, we get one really fierce bird.
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I'll be gone next week, off to play in the dust with about 40,000 other folks. Yep, it's Burning Man, and yep, it's awesome. This will be my fourth foray into the intense, insane, trying and magical experience in the third largest city in Nevada. Why I go is a complicated question that is really best answered over cheap beers in a dark and cozy bar on the edge of nowhere. But the easy answer is that I go for authenticity- to witness the beauty of people expressing themselves in whatever way is most confronting and enticing, to be a part of the exploration of identity and personal freedom.
Read MoreFatal Femmes
Choose those readers wisely, kiddos. Find people in your demographic and outside of it. Find people who are not only invested in you, but invested in story telling and a culture of reading. Find people who want your book to shine. I've got them, and they're making me better for it.
Read MoreQueering Our Myths
Queer folks often feel excluded from the mythology of our world. Few Western/European folktales include variation of gender or sexuality and the gender binary is most often assumed to be a universal and fixed truth. Rarely do we get any variation on these themes. While queer people have undoubtedly inhabited the world since the beginning, looking at the majority of myths, it would appear as though we don't exist at all.
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