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Spread the word: the Wanderlust bike tour is coming to town! This summer, a group of sixteen women are traveling from New Orleans to New York City on a reproductive justice bike tour. In solidarity with local activists and rooted in the belief that sharing stories is a powerful way to elevate awareness and create social change, we'll be pedaling from town to town to listen to your stories and document how you and others are working to expand access to reproductive health care, defend reproductive rights, and promote reproductive justice. It's a story collective - it's a bicycle caravan - it's building the movement for reproductive justice! The goals of the trip are to document the inspirational, groundbreaking work happening across the country and build horizontal networks to strengthen our collective movement for reproductive health, rights, and justice. THE INVITATION: Do you or does someone you know live along the route? We're looking for health care providers, sex educators, supportive clergy, reproductive justice advocates, policy changers, radical activists, doulas, midwives, culture jammers, and anyone who is working to empower women to control their bodies and their lives. Join us to share your story at a Wanderlust discussion gathering. We're interested in knowing what you do and why you do it, what the important issues in your community are, and how we can work together to build a strong and vibrant movement for social change.TOUR DATES
INTERESTED? If you'd like to join the Wanderlust story collective and bicycle caravan for a gathering when we come through your town, please fill out this survey by clicking here, or email wanderlust@protectchoice.org and let us know where you are and what you do. We're also looking for people to host the riders as they come through town - if you are willing to let all or some of the riders stay with you, that would be delightful! We can sleep anywhere, from backyards to rec rooms to church basements. If you're able to host please email wanderlust@protectchoice.org and let us know. For more information about Wanderlust, please visit www.protectchoice.org
Wanderlust is a program of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Nora Dye News from the Center for Sex & Culture: We are VERY excited to tell you that we moved into the old Jon Sims Center space's front room, at 1519 Mission, Suite 1. PLEASE DO FORWARD & POST THIS LETTER March 15, 2008 Dear Friends and Community of Jwala, We are a group of friends of Jwala; the pioneer Tantra teacher, pleasure priestess, author of Sacred Sex, extraordinary sexual healer and sex educator of Marin County, California. We're writing to inform you that Jwala is having a really tough time right now and needs emergency love and support. Jwala has had a serious back injury-a herniated disc. She has gone to eight doctors, tried all kinds of treatments and sadly she's still in pain. The back injury has had a domino effect in her life. The pain makes it impossible for her to do many of the kinds of work she used to which is causing financial hardships. Then friends she was renting her home from, moved-- so she had to move out too. Now she can't afford the deposit and last month rent needed for a new place. This has all put her on an emotional roller coaster; she's having panic attacks aggravated by sleep apnea. Jwala is working as many hours as she can at a hot tub place but her pay just doesn't nearly cover her immediate needs. Perhaps Jwala has brightened your life over the years. Perhaps you have found benefit in her life enhancing and beautiful teachings, directly or indirectly. Perhaps you've been inspired by her normally joyous celebratory nature, creativity and love. We have! Some of us owe a debt of gratitude to Jwala. So we want to help her out. Maybe you do too. You can help Jwala in any of these ways:
Here are some ways you can help Jwala with great returns via her friends businesses:
Time is of the essence. Act now, before April 30, 2008. (May 2 is her birthday by the way.) Checks can be made to her legal name and sent to Kathleen Bingham (Jwala's legal name.) 775 E. Blithedale, #174, Mill Valley, Ca. 94941. Call Jwala at 415 -847-7801. Email Jwala at: jwalaji@hotmail.com Sincerely, (In random order) Evelena Rose (lovejourneytantra.com) Deborah Sundahl (isismedia.org) Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. (anniesprinkle.org) Joseph Kramer, Ph.D. (eroticmassage.com) Carol Queen (carolqueen.com) Kutira Decosterd (mauiretreat.com) Francesca Gentille (lifedancecenter.com) Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D. (www.SacredProstitute.com) Veronica Vera (missvera.com) Dr. Megan Scott - Psychologist PS-If you like, please add your name to this letter, and send around to people who might know Jwala on your email list, or post, and add anything you might like to offer as well. PSS-Jwala has approved this letter and sends her love and gratitude to all. AND! CSC has scheduled a workshop with Jwala on May 4th -- see calendar for details. CANDYE KANE BEING TREATED FOR CANCER, NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT (CSC will do a benefit for her soon!) "Cancelled my European Tours and scheduled surgery for April 18th. It was an agonizing decision but I decided I had to cancel my european shows and my appearance on the blues caravan tour for the time being. I will endure the whipple procedure (pancreatic duodectomy) on april 18th at UCSD Thornton Hospital. I will be in the hospital for two weeks minimum. The address for the hospital is : 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla Ca 92037. It was a very difficult decision to cancel this tour. So many people depend on me for their income and so many people worldwide just wanted to see me sing. But I will sing again and by doing this surgery early, I have a better chance of recovering quickly and thus being able to do my other shows later this summer. I am feeling great and this extra time at home will allow me to continue my juicing and exercise and get in optimum shape before I endure this very radical surgery. Thanks so much to those of you who wrote me kind and sometimes funny emails encouraging me to stay at home. The permission slips you sent were hilarious! I have already lost 20 pounds as a result of my dietary changes and will be lose probably another 50 pounds from this intense operation. I am sure I will be fine and will be in better shape than ever. I am already thinking about the activism I will embrace when I am well; for the health care that should be available to all of us regardless of our economic status. Poor peoples lives are worth as much as rich peoples and if I hadnt had a child under 21 and been eligible for partial pay medi-cal, if I hadnt had generous friends, fans and family who are helping, I wouldnt even be able to have cancer surgery and would just be sent home to die! This isnt right and I will fight to publicize this issue. Right now though, I just have to fight to get better and beat cancer and survive this surgery. I am strong and I can do it. I just know it. But I still need your love, prayers, support and healing white light. Keep those positive thoughts coming! If you want to donate $$ to the cancer fund, check out my myspace www.myspace.com/candyekaneband for a benefit near you or you can send money thru www.paypal.com. My user name is candyekanetour@aol.com Or you can send a check to: candye kane cancer fund 315 s. hwy 101 #47 encinitas, ca 92024. Please also keep my friend Chris Gaffney in your thoughts who has been diagnosed with liver cancer. Chris is an amazing singer and musician from The Hacienda Brothers and the Dave Alvin Band. His website is www.helpgaff.com Thank Goddess, I have partial pay Medi-cal insurance now but I will be laid up for months after this intense surgery and will still need to pay bills and survive with no income. Thanks in advance for your continued generosity and for keeping me and my sons evan and tommy in your thoughts and prayers. Much love and gratitude; We have one silent auction item from that event that we are throwing open for e-list bidding: an admission to the couple's party to La Domaine Esemar in upstate New York. Please scroll down to the very bottom of this message to read more about it. If you'd like to bid, just send us an email with "auction bid" in the subject line; minimum bid is $20. Bids will close on April 20. You'll be able to send us a check, or pay with Visa, MasterCard, or discover if you're the high bidder. LA DOMAINE ESEMAR COUPLE'S PARTY (UPSTATE NY) This is Master R from La Domaine Esemar: the world's oldest SM traning chateau, located in upstate NY. We would be delighted to offer an invitation to one of our 2008 Couples Parties as part of your Reclaiming Eros auction. It has been said (frequently) that there is no hotter place on earth then a Satyrday night La D Couples Party. Our parties are normally $125 percouple, $175 for an individual, m or f. More info on our web site. The donation is for either an individual or couple. It covers; the satyrday party, does not cover the overnight stay (most people stay at local motels) but it does cover the sinday brunch. For your/their information, we will advise the winning party as to which of the 2008 parties would be good choices for their attendance, depending on their interests and skill levels. If you want, you can post the link to our site www.LaDomaine.com, or to the couples party page in specific, which is: http://www.ladomaine.com/partyschedule.htm La Domaine Esemar is unique among contemporary SM training facilities. To begin with, La Domaine is far more than a simple professional dungeon. Esemar is a private home where people can explore their complex sexuality for periods of time ranging from basic, short training sessions to a lifetime's commitment, shared with our remarkable lineage of Mistresses, Masters, and slaves. La Domaine offers insight, guided personal development, and camaraderie to all our clients. Our Mistresses and Masters are among the finest in the world, with personal backgrounds in the most extensive training program one can find today. Because of this, the slaves and Dominants we train are easily recognized by the knowing eye. Our guests are extraordinary. We are fond of saying that we host the most delicate beginners as well as the most sophisticated players. For many, La Domaine is the first step into a much broader world of sexuality. Others, far more advanced in our persuasion, bring us their many experiences. They add polish and depth to Esemar. Some visit for only hours, some shall be with us for as long as we are privileged to exist. For those who find they have a place in their sexuality to serve as a household member at a great SM training chateau, we offer placements in our personal, non-professional acolyte programs. In addition, we offer Couples Parties, dungeon rentals, overnight, weekend and week long getaways, workshops, fine food and wine, and other very special events. Call for Presenters: POLYAMORY CONFERENCE: SEPT 12-14: 2008 GREETINGS! This year's WORLD POLYAMORY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE will be happening September 12-14 at Harbin Hot Springs, in Middletown, California, (2 hours north of San Francisco). This is our official call for presentation proposals. If you want to do a presentation, now is the time to let us know: http://www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com SHARE WITH OTHER POLYAMOROUS FOLKS: What Works for You! Lead a discussion. ...or whatever else your creative brilliant mind can come up with that other polys might find fun, illuminating, inspiring, uplifting, healing, fun, informative, instructive, entertaining or fun. (Did we mention FUN?) Note: Generally speaking, academic lecture-style events or abstract/theoretical presentations do NOT go over well, while audience participation/interactive events are usually MUCH MORE popular. All events MUST be directly related to polyamory, polyfidelity, open relationships or other forms of consensual non-monogamy. General topics not related to polyamory, even if "very interesting," will not be considered. Please send in your application before June 1st, 2008. Selections will be made by our organizing committee within a few days of that closing date. If you want view a two-minute video about the conference, click here. In case you've never been there before, you'll love Harbin. Harbin Hot Springs, CA near Middleton (two hours from both San Francisco), nestles on 1200 acres of beautiful canyon land. It offers natural healing waters (hot, warm and cold pools), miles of hiking trails. The Poly Conference's area is totally private within Harbin; in our area, we can be openly affectionate and even sexual. Harbin is a clothes-optional facility. Presenters who wish are listed as Faculty of the World Polyamory Association. As one of our presenters, your listing on our web site links to a your description of the workshops you present for the WPA. Your presentation will be archived and permanently listed on the WPA. Your listing includes a link to your web site, your biography and a link to your products page on your site. Presenters receive: *A partial waiver of fees for the conference. *Free space to sell their poly-related products and display promotional literature. *Free World Polyamory Association Membership for one year. Presentations are a minimum of 1 hour. Workshops are usually 90 minutes. http://www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com For more information call 808-244-4103 Happy holidays from the Center for Sex & Culture! We have a LOT going on this month and are planning on an exciting early '08.
"We all know ALT.com has the hottest members on the web - and we also know there's a lot more to our community than meets the eye. We deeply value our members and want to support the things they care about - that's why we're donating $200,000 to your favorite charities! 'Tis the season for giving, and we want to give back to you: our community. So tell us about your favorite certified charity, and we just may leave them an extra-special gift under the tree this year! Post your suggestions in the comments below (name only, we don't need the address). If you like, give us a few short words about what makes your charity special and why we should choose it. The $200,000 will be divided over 5-10 different groups. The deadline to submit is Saturday, December 15, at 11:59PM (PST). We'll evaluate your suggestions and post our selected charities in January 2008. Good luck, and Happy Holidays from all of us at ALT.com!" Here's the URL at alt.com. Here's Giveline info: *Shop on Giveline this holiday season, and you could win $3,000 Our October contest was a huge success, so we've decided to do it again -- this time for $3,000, and with more time to spread the word to family, friends, and supporters who are shopping for the holidays. From November 19th through to December 31st, we will be keeping track of all purchases over $50 made in the Giveline store. In early January, we will randomly select one of these purchases as the winning entry, and give that winning customer:
Again, each purchase over $50 will qualify as an entry, and there's no limit to the number of entries. Our October Winner Our congratulations go out to Ann Usherwood, who won our October drawing to receive a $500 gift card for herself AND a $500 Giveline donation for her charity, Bridges of Hope -- a community support organization in the Brainerd Lakes area of Minnesota. By shopping on Giveline and choosing her favorite cause, she had already earned a donation for Bridges of Hope -- not to mention a third donation she will earn for them when she redeems the winning gift card! Five More Weeks to Shop In the meantime, the holiday season is in full swing and Giveline has the perfect item for every person on your list. With thousands of items to choose from, including wine, gift baskets and high end electronics, we are your one-stop-shop this year. Since Giveline donates a percentage of every purchase to your favorite cause, your gifts can give back as well this holiday season! Start shopping now!: giveline.com Women Sex Expert (50+) Needed for MTV Show I'm a casting producer working on an honest and eye-opening new television project on sex and relationships for MTV Networks. MTV is now on a nationwide search for a recognized specialist to moderate a new series that gives parents and children the confidence to talk about relationships, sex and contraception together. The program hopes to create an open dialogue for topics that are never easy to discuss for millions of Americans. This series is designed to foster communication within families by tackling the hardest topic of all with the help of the expert. In each episode, the expert and one family will work through their issues through group assignments and open, frank discussion. The hope is that the more families talk openly about sex, the more supportive and honest they can be in other areas of their lives. I'm reaching out to you for assistance in finding viable candidates to host the program. We're only in the casting phase and in search of the right person for the position. Details and discussions will follow once we have made a decision on our expert. We're looking to speak with women (in their 50s and up) who are recognized experts in the field of sexuality issues. Candidates can be either practicing therapists, educators, doctors, authors, etc. or retired. We'd like to find women considered to be thought leaders in the field. We're searching for an expert that is able to facilitate, in a fun way, frank, direct, no-nonsense discussions about sex, as well as, help design family activities and homework that will promote further conversations. If you or someone you know is interested, please have them contact me immediately at: mtvcasting@picturethistv.com or 212-586-2235. We're moving quickly and would like recommendations as soon as possible. Candidates will need to submit their credentials, a photo and references to be considered. The show is produced by Emmy-award winning Picture This Television (picturethistv.com). Have you read Exhibitionism for the Shy? Or have you decided, on your own, to get more erotically outgoing and exhibitionistic? CQ is revising Ex for Shy and would love to hear your stories. We can chat in person, by phone, or you can send me an email. WERE YOU AT KINK INK IN APRIL, 2006? PLEASE READ! CSC is trying to find a mystery attendee from Kink Ink 2006. Please visit http://sexandculture.org/pages/KinkInk.html -- it's a special page on our website with a pic of the last person we are trying to identify from the photo session done that night. If you have ANY idea who this woman might be and how to reach her, please let us know, or ask her to get in touch with carol@sexandculture.org. Without her ID, the images Carlos Batts took that night of his wife April Flores (and their whole new movie) may have to be canned. We really hope to help them contact everyone, and the women in the pic is the last person we have yet to find. Thank you! WOODULL FREEDOM FOUNDATION goes to Philly! See http://www.woodhullfoundation.org/events/default.aspx. Now you can support Center For Sex And Culture when you travel! Attention all Center For Sex And Culture supporters! Giveline has partnered with a leading provider of fundraising travel packages which include cruises, golf vacations, adventure and fantasy trips and more. Go to http://giveline.com/productbestsellers.asp?V=&p=&mc=MC010 to see the vacation packages we offer and the huge pricing discounts offered exclusively to Giveline customers. START SPREADING THE WORD! OUR PERSONALIZED LINK: http://www.giveline.com/default.asp?v=V004587299 (bookmark it!) START SHOPPING NOW! Get FREE SHIPPING using this discount code: NCD07 New Michael Rosen book out now! A message from Michael: Friends, This PDF is a reprise of a 2005 show at the Center for Sex & Culture in San Francisco. It's my latest and best work. For me, "vanilla" means the spectrum of our community's sexuality; what we normally do. So, some photographs are of acts generally considered normal and standard (missionary position sex, for example), while others are of acts considered normal and standard only within the radical sex community. The 53 photographs are soft and romantic images of explicit sex that challenge the banality of pornography. And, check out the introduction by the preeminent photography critic, A.D. Coleman. Think of this as an advertisement for myself and my work. For me, publication has always been about putting my point of view out in the world in the most effective manner. Last century, I chose printed books for sale; so far this century I choose a free PDF. Support this work. Buy my art prints. Buy my books - Sexual Art, Sexual Magic, Sexual Portraits and Lust & Romance - from Amazon and other online vendors, or from me at my website, http://www.michaelrosen.com. I'm always looking for people to photograph - individuals, couples and groups - for a variety of sexually oriented projects. I pay and/or trade. Tell your friends! I wish you all the very best, Psych. and therapy professionals with kinky clients: San Francisco 415 255-7866 http://www.LifeStyleEducation.net FEMINA POTENS has a new home! Of course, we are always looking for volunteers and interns in all areas! Please contact us at feminapotens@gmail.com if you would like to be involved in this exciting new phase of developing an even stronger feminist, queer, and artistic presence in San Francisco! Femina Potens Gallery & Performance Space (New location!) Jen Cross and Writing Ourselves Whole have a new space all their own! Jen will still help facilitate the Erotic Reading Circles at CSC (for which we won a Best of the Bay award this year!), and she'll still hold readings with us sometimes. Best of luck to Jen in her now home! Get more detail on Jen's events, including her fall classes, at www.writingourselveswhole.org (visit the new blog!) Giveline The Center for sex & Culture has been confirmed and added to Giveline, a shopping site that makes donations to non-profits, and is now eligible to receive donations. OUR PERSONALIZED LINK: http://www.giveline.com/default.asp?v=V004587299 (bookmark it! Pass it on!) Get FREE SHIPPING using this discount code: NCD07 Wank! Documentary Seeks Interviewees Why is that masturbation jokes are common in popularculture, yet the topic remains a virtual taboo inother contexts? Why do some vociferously oppose it,and others love it? Can't we all just get along withourselves? Wank! is a documentary about all aspectsof self-pleasuring. 3 years in the making, we'veinterviewed almost everyone in sight. Now we'recoming to the Masturbate-a-thon and we'd like tointerview you. We'll be at the M-a-thon itself, butwe'd like to interview a few participants beforehandand after. We'll have time the day before, themorning of the event, the night of, and Sundaymorning. Please let us know at your earliestconvenience: bluemetalrain@yahoo.com www.myspace.com/wankdoc Welcome to my blog! www.carolqueenblog.com Click HERE to read the CSC Winter '07 Newsletter! http://www.blowfish.com/radio/
*APA's Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients -- A survey Two groups within the American Psychological Association, the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns and Division 44, the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues are joining forces to revise APA's Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients. We invite you to participate in this effort. If you know of other groups or individuals who might be interested in participating in this effort, please feel free to pass this information on to them. To access the survey, please use the following link or paste this address in your browser: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=550063185188 If you have any questions about the survey, contact Glenda Russell at gmrussell5@hotmail.com -- Thank you in advance for your input into the revision process. What is Great Sex?: We are a group of researchers in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University and at the University of Ottawa who are studying optimal sexuality. We are interested in interviewing individuals, preferably over the age of 65 who have been in long-term relationships and who have had great sex at some time in their lives. It doesn't matter if it was once, long ago or every day. We are hoping that we can contribute to the field by getting some idea of what great sex actually consists of from people who have lived it. We would like to gain wisdom from people who have a lifetime of sexual experiences to share. VOLUNTEER WEB PROGRAMMER NEEDED FOR SEX-POSITIVE JOURNALISM AWARDS Sick of knee-jerk anti-sex media coverage? Want to lend your web skills to the cause? The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards needs a few hours of your time to launch our website. Our graphic designer will provide Photoshop layouts of the home page and a few sample pages that clearly define the exact layout. We need someone who can then program the pages in HTML/CSS/whatever to match that, including slicing & optimizing any graphics, if necessary. It will be a fairly simple page. We want a basic site up ASAP. By the end of the summer we'll need to add a form that will allow users to upload pdfs. Contact writer@mjoy.org if you're interested. Sex Survey Participants Wanted We are conducting a study into the nature of optimal sexuality. In the field of sexology, we often spend too much time focusing on problematic sexuality and not enough time talking about really memorable sex. We are interested in interviewing individuals, particularly those marginalized by society in general and mental health professionals in particular (i.e., members of sexual minority groups and the elderly), about wonderful sex. We are especially interested in learning from those who have been in long-term relationships and who have had great sex at some time in their lives. We are hoping that we can contribute to the field by getting some idea of what great sex actually consists of from people who have lived it. Ideally, we would like to gain wisdom from people who have a lifetime of sexual experiences to share. If you would like more information, please feel free to contact us at dana.menard@gmail.com and/or kleinpla@uottawa.ca or by phone at (613) 563-0846. Sincerely, Psychology Masters Degree student posts survey about casual sex: Here is the link to the survey: https://www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=119878. "My name is Tom Pearson and I am a psychology graduate student at the University of Northern British Columbia. With the help of my supervisor, Dr. Sherry Beaumont, I am currently working on my thesis proposal that is focusing on potential individual difference factors that may predict why casual sex has a variable impact on young adult's psychological health. My survey will be about 150 items, of which 60 items will be very short (just rating emotions after reading casual sex scenarios). Participants will also be asked to fill out demographic information, sexual history information, a questionnaire on styles of relating to others, and a questionnaire on casual sex motives." A message from the Woodhull Freedom Foundation: CREATING CHANGE AND SEXUAL FREEDOM We'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to largest LGBT political change conference in the country: Creating Change. For this year's conference, held in Kansas City, MO, the Woodhull Freedom Foundation has partnered with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to create an entire track dedicated to Sexual Freedom. Our mission for this conference is to help educate activists and advocates on the importance of focusing on the general issue of sexual freedom rather than any one particular identity. In order to accomplish this we are showcasing a daylong, Pre-Conference Institute on Sexual Freedom that will be led by experienced activists and leaders from different areas of the Sexual Freedom movement. During the main conference schedule, the Sexual Freedom track will include great workshops and skills academies covering topics ranging from discussions about sex in the disabled community to youth issues and leather issues, as well as understanding sexual freedom as a political leader. These workshops will help further the skills and knowledge base of any activist and translate across communities, helping the Sexual Freedom movement to expand its relationships with other segments of the social change movement as a whole. Creating Change is an inspiring conference that brings together activists from across the country and around the world to meet and discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the LGBT, Sexual Freedom and other social change movements alike. We hope that you can join us in Kansas City, MO this November from the 8th through the 12th. To register for the conference or for more information please visit the conference website at http://www.creatingchange.org or contact the conference team at creatingchange@thetaskforce.org. Ricci J. Levy, Executive Director WorkingStories is an audio documentary project based on the lives of sex workers. A note from Lynne Breedlove: hey pals i am proposing a book with a working title something like How Girlz and Boyz Can Love Each Other by Someone Who Has Been Both. It's a collection of letters to Unka Lynnee and my responses about dating, boinking, community, and relationship etiquette, so i can be just like dan savage, only better. cuz i am a big tranny who needs to make money so i can write the damn Godspeed feature length screenplay. [CSC note: Godspeed is Breedlove's terrific book that will eventually be made into a movie.] I need straight bio boys to write me some questions about girls, and straight girls to ask questions about boys, fags about their drag queen boyfriends, and everyone else. so send em over. thanx! let's make the world safe for democracy again. me@lynnbreedlove.com xoxo lynnee The Hastings Women's Law Journal is excited to announce that we are currently seeking personal essays, narratives, and other forms of art and literature for our upcoming issue. In furtherance of our commitment to provide a forum for alternative voices, we are seeking pieces that convey the author's personal experience with the legal system. We hope that by sharing your story, we can provide our readers with an understanding and awareness of how individuals are directly impacted by our legal system. We welcome submissions from practitioners, clients, and anyone else who would like to share their personal experience. The Hastings Women's Law Journal, a scholarly publication of the University of California, is one of the leading women's law journals in the nation. We are committed to producing publishing the highest quality of scholarship and are dedicated to providing a forum for alternative voices in legal discourse. We encourage you to become part of the Hastings Women's Law Journal by submitting a piece for publication. We prefer that you email us your piece, but you can also submit it by mail. We regret that we cannot return pieces mailed to us, except upon receipt of a self-addressed postage-paid envelope. Please contact us with any questions that you may have. Please also forward this message to colleagues and clients who may be interested in publishing with the Hastings Women's Law Journal. Hastings Women's Law Journal WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? Take the survey! Another survey: http://www.socioscape.com/quo. Marriage and family, including the same-sex kind. Hi, my name is Rachel Harris and I am doing an interview project on sex workers and healers (basically anyone who engages in any type of sexual activity, be it actually having sex, guiding others in having sex or dancing/teasing etc, and gets paid for it) and spirituality. I am curious about the connections between the two and how sex workers feel about this topic. Anyone involved in spiritual/sexual work, or sex workers or people involved mostly in spiritual work -- I'd greatly appreciate hearing from them and will send on my survey questions. CQ note: You can contact Rachel at rachel_h@riseup.net to answer her Q&A. Sadie says: I have started a new yahoogroup, Erotic Industry Workers Support. It is a place for people to talk about their work, their feelings, ask questions, network, and get support. I created it out of an expressed need at the Sex Workers Burnout Workshop hosted by Annie Sprinkle at the CSC last sunday. There is already a tribe on tribe.net for this purpose, but I think yahoogroups are more accessible to most people than tribe. If you are interested in joining please email sadielune@gmail.com. Feel free to pass this information along to people who are working or have worked in a provider capacity in the sex industry. (i.e. no producers, furniture builders, photographers, etc.) TRANSSEXUAL/TRANSGENDER SURVEY I am writing to ask for your help with what will be the largest non-clinical study of the lives of transgender people in the U.S. (in the first ten days, we have had more than 600 participants, and are aiming for more than 2,000). While much has been written about individual transgender experiences, there has been little trans-positive research on the processes by which people come to see themselves as MTFs, FTMs, crossdressers, genderqueers, and other transgender and gender diverse identities. The researchers are a genderqueer college administrator (me!) and a queer campus diversity specialist (full bios are below). We are undertaking this study because we feel that high school and college administrators, therapists, doctors, and other professionals who work with transgender people often have a limited understanding of transgender experiences, which leads to poor treatment and discrimination. We hope that our findings will help foster a greater awareness of transgender people. You can take part in the study by completing the survey at https://web.survey.psu.edu/transgender (it is a secure server). The questionnaire will take about 30 minutes to fill out. It is completely anonymous and responses cannot be tracked back electronically to the sender. Please feel free to forward the study's web address to other transgender people you know who might be interested. And please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thank you very much! I really appreciate your help. To be informed of all our activities, join our mailing list! Send an email to info@centerforsexandculture.com |
We also have several ways for you to boost CSC revenue, and one of them doesn't even involve your spending a cent! See the newest Giveline contest below (shop before 12/31 and win a $500 giftcard plus a $2500 donation to us); spread the word far and wide about Nude Aid (detail on Events page, see 12/9); and check this out!: