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  Start Your Morning Out Right…

  http://www.spreadmagazine.org/blog/?p=211
  64 days ago in $pread Blog · Authority: 39

  with Nina Hartley! AVN.com brings us the full transcript of her speech at a NOW convention. It's really good stuff: I get a lot of 'Huh? What? Really?' And a lot of hatred, a lot of bitter vitriol sent my way. They say horrible things about me on websites, and I just have to remind myself that I'm a '70s feminist: My body, my rules. And if you don't like what I do with my body, I'm sorry. I'm not asking you to do that with your body. […] I understand that what I do is skeevy to people, and I don't want you to do what I do. I get that. You can keep your clothes on and only have sex with one person; that's fine. But you cannot decide that some women are worthy of your support and worthy of your respect and some women are not by virtue of their job classification. (emphasis added) God, she is awesome. Just as it's important for sex workers to engage with mainstream media in the face of tremendous hostility (see Amanda Brooks and Audacia Ray), it's important for sex workers to engage with feminist organizations, even when they may seem like an enemy. Thank you, Nina, Dacia, and Amanda, and all the other sex workers who are brave enough to publicly speak out!
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  I Pull Up to the Front of Your Driveway With Magic Soaking My Spine (and Auto-Fun)

  http://marielynbernard.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-pull-up-to-fro...
  67 days ago in this girl called automatic win · Authority: 46

  I Pull Up to the Front of Your Driveway With Magic Soaking My Spine (and Auto-Fun) A night out: widespread potential for things to go wrong. For me, the moment I leave the safety of a designated shelter, I'm already on edge, thinking of the myriad missteps possible between the door of aforementioned shelter and the engagement in the promised fun. ("Fun" = the commonly agreed upon purpose of a night out). These areas of potential failure include: a) Entertainments (Good movie? Party full o' douchebags?) b) Company (Friends, humor, value, tension, fights, lovers, diversity, desire, deflection, admiration, the whole spectrum of human emotion really.) c) Food (Hunger, cravings, availability, economy.) d) Intoxication (Level, type & sensation, result, how your stomach/head feels about it.) e) Transportation (Form, comfort, cost, pleasure experienced en route, cabbie smelled/ruled.) f) Economics (Cost more/less than expected, you saved twenty percent on car insurance, something inspiring a "priceless" away message on AIM happened, you were robbed at gunpoint.) g) Special (Having your phone stolen would be an especially bad thing, getting hugged by Cam and Leisha at their initiative would be an especially good thing. Meeting the ex-love of your life in an unexpected but terrible place = bad. Meeting the love of your life = good) h) Health (Are you tired? Are you allergic to the punch/cats? Did you get too drunk, or take up yoga? Or ... like, the proverbial yoga?) i) Intellect (Did this event make you smarter somehow? Probs not, but you never know, I do enjoy a good poetry reading, I felt spiritually moved by Uh Huh Her the first time I saw them for real.) j) Fashion (How did you look? Did you do the costume of the day? Did Haviland compliment your attire? Is your name "Tinkerbell," and were you wearing a pullover made out of Uh Huh Her briefs?) Sometimes the stars align however, and all in one night -- you make it to your far-away location without pulling any U-Turns, despite Miss GPS's stern desire to re-calculate the route, run into a friend you haven't seen in forevs, enjoy the friends you're with, reach the perfect level of intoxication (giggly, but not about to crack one's skull on a glass table), drinks seem basically free compared to NYC, your cabbie actually waits outside of Wendy's -- for y'all to fulfill your specific 5-piece and fries craving (easily satisfied within blocks of final shelter!) -- just like you asked him to, Leisha and Cam say awesome mega-kind unexpected things about your video/your yous and are super-sweet all around, Tinkerbell gets her Uh-Huh-Her outfit signed, etc. I'm just saying ... such a thing is possible. Did we see Eric Mathew? No. But otherwise, Philadelphia, we're cool now. I call truce. Also, UHH, we still need to have a chat about tardiness. Also "Special" is that North Star Bar in Philly had a gigantic fan upstairs, providing many opportunities for memory-making via photograph. Unfortunately we didn't see Rovermom, so I didn't have a chance to punch her in the face. I have this idea that I take too long to write things. And I don't know if that makes me write better things, or just write things that are equally good (if not polished/refined) but in different ways. Someone explain twitter to me. Why would I want people to keep tabs on me all the time, isn't that what stalking laws prevent? I just don't understand it. I saw this on post secret and thought I'd put it here. I like it. I have notes, everywhere. I go through them to put things together and my mind boggles itself. What was I talking about? Here's a sample of a notebook page of material from yours truly, circa I'm not really sure, but I think at least two years ago?: Under "heroes," I wrote "Mrs. Dalloway." Aspeth wrote "Captain Kangaroo." That's when I knew I loved her. I didn't like him in the morning. Sometimes men reminded me of giant animal trees. Sad ones. This primal lust -- beast -- cut through way too quickly with its apology. It was in the moment between animal and apology where he lost me. "She's not very bright, Marie. She's just beautiful and not bright and so totally ordinary." "But she's got a really extraordinary ass." face of faith - nellie mckay melt your heart - jenny lewis go your own way - snow and voices Her friends were all angles, it turned out. She'd thought they were gelatinous, gooey things -- shifting & blending into each other ... forming better, stronger things. But no, it turned out, looking around the table - all points, points wanting to be made. and now. "you are so lovely it makes me sad" -text message from a---. -Veronica is from Florida. -2BR apt w/a vegan drug dealer. -Alice runs everywhere she's crazy like that In middle school, the songs were our ideas. "Our song" -- an initiative, carried forth w/o support or input from our partners. We chose sweet pop ballads like "Hero" or "Groovy Kind of Love." First song we danced to, lyrical relevance. Our boyfriends were scrawny kids with awkward teeth, swallowed in skater pants; they listened to Nine Inch Nails. "I got a lot of problems. I am very sick. I have a lot of problems, Miriam. I used to have a Camaro." (-Man in metropolitan hospital.) All I had then, was a faint suspicion that I was more than this. Me = "Long, lanky Olive Oyl type. Perverted in a good way." - Daphne And in this spirit, I go on to the automatic "fun" of the day. This's been difficult to assemble, 'cause my internet has been completely spastic for about four days now, making life so insufferable that I actually subjected myself to making an outgoing phone call to fix the problem. I thought just now it was fixed via that magic trick that verizon people do when you call them that makes you look like a total idiot for even calling, but it turns out; totally not. I keep starting thoughts I can't finish, it's disorienting.[Someone quoted this in the comments recently ... i couldn't find it ... then i was reading this blog just now and came across it, subsequently, the poem its from in poetry, and thought, this is something to say again ...] ** quote: "What are you thinking?" She asks. Light shutters across us. Wherever you are in me I'm there, though it's not what you wanted." (Phillip White, "Infidelity.") links: 1) Speaking of the stars aligning; last week I randomly felt inspired to speak of Chris Farley. This week, Sam Anderson reviews a book about Chris Farley, (@nymag) 2) I just finished "Have You No Shame: And Other Regreattable Stories," but I'm not gonna talk about it 'til July, which's when I estimate I'll finish "Stuff I'm Reading: May" considering we're well into May and I've yet to do April ... anyhow, recommended. (@mediabistro) 3) A poem for Michigan, the Midwest : "A Primer," by Bob Hicok. "February/ is thirteen months long in Michigan. / We are people who by February / want to kill the sky for being so gray / and angry at us. 'What did we do?' is the state motto." (@the new yorker) 4) "Dear Writing, a love/hate letter" (@lusty lady) 5) Audacia's got a video clip now of her standing up for sex worker rights during the spitzer hoo-ha on CNN (@waking vixen) 6) Janice Erlbaum: "Remember when I used to talk about myself all the time. I kind of don't feel like it any more." (@girlbomb) 7) The Top 12 Jews in Cinema (@nerve.com) 8) "Another person chimed in: 'Do you like fag porn? All my queer female friends do.'": Girls Love Gay Porn (@the village voice) 9) It's possible, apparently, that instant messaging is not harming teenager's language skills but rather represents "a linguistic renaissance." Includes LOL statistics. (@the new scientist) 10) Anyhow, yay! Gays can marry in California! (@nytimes) 11) Also, I updated autostraddle! Kinda ... Posted by riese
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  links for 2008-05-16

  http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/05/16/links-for-2008-05-1...
  68 days ago in Being Amber Rhea · Authority: 145

  Interviews about Sex 2.0 « Best Sex Writing 2008 “These interviews were conducted by me as part of an upcoming Huffington Post piece (will post link when I have it) about Sex 2.0″ (tags: me sex2.0 interviews) California’s top court legalizes gay marriage - Yahoo! News Yay! (tags: california gay marriage news) Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube - CNN.com “Most sexual violence is acquaintance rape, and unfortunately, a lot of juries still think that if a victim had a relationship with their attacker, then they cannot be raped by that person.” Yeah. When will people freaking get the message already?? (tags: rape abuse violence crime youtube teens socialmedia video) village voice sex naked city - Sex Workers: Take Back the Media! “Spitzer? Palfrey, the DC Madam? Her suicide? Great for ratings! Yet, do you ever see much of actual sex workers on TV? Other than what ‘Dateline’ or ‘20/20′ tell you? Edited and filtered through their lens of course.” (tags: sexwork media msm newmedia palfrey stigma stereotypes activism spitzer) Creative Marketing | Callie Simms “I have never been afraid to experiment with my adult marketing. Why? Because if it works for me, then it’s a strategy that someone else can leverage and use successfully also.” (tags: adult marketing socialmedia sexwork internet) Podcast Training for and by sex workers in San Francisco « Bound, Not Gagged I would love to have something like this in Atlanta! But I’ve gotta remember (and stick to) my commitment to not take on any more projects for the rest of the year. I just wish I didn’t feel like other people won’t step up. *sigh* (tags: sexwork podcasting activism socialmedia awesome) Sexeteria: Type cast “Much like reading a book where you create a mental image of the character, people read a blogger’s words and filter them through their own imaginations and experience.” (tags: blogging perception bloggers stereotypes) Waking Vixen » Blog Archive » Audacia on CNN (old clip from March) “They didn’t edit anything down, they just ran the full interview, which is awesome. I stammer a little bit here and there, but I think I did a good job of staying on message and not getting wrapped up in the leading questions I’m being asked.” (tags: video msm media spitzer sexwork) [This is a post from: Being Amber Rhea]

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