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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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Arts Strike - Silent Grey Rally
Wednesday, September 9 at 11:30am
Look.
The times are tough. When one looks across the globe there is evidence of the hardship that greed and bad judgment has produced.
The people that suffer are the people that ultimately ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
You read that one right.
Take one Small Brown Package born on the Canadian Prairies ensure equal parts of black and gay, mix with epithets and whole lot of talent and you get Barend Mackenzie.
Xtra West recently did a wonderful article on him and the show. Having Natasha Barsotti on staff ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
What a week!
Less than a month to go for Lee Harrington's D/s Psychology Intensive and there are just few weekend seats left. YAY!
The 5th D/s Dinner Salon has been boked for the weekend of the 12th. Less than a week a way. Historically the seats are gone within 24 - ...
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
First in a planned series of writings inspired by TED : more info :Do you think about the lives of our kink/fetish heroes? The more you see, and have access to in terms of images, and video and conferences and blogs and LiveJournal, and Twitter and Facebook and FetLife for ...
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
Mama has been busy on the social media networks this week!
The state of the Arts continues to be on my mind and apparently thoughts around D/s and that sweet butch of mine. Increasingly I am finding interesting people and posts on Twitter. The problem is that there is SO much. ...
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
Those of us consciously walking a path of intentional and consistent D/s have come across times when we wonder about our personal capacities and those of the people with whom we have association. We seek inside ourselves, we go to conferences, read books, mentor, attend workshops, munches, review Leather history, ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
What a week.
After waiting and waiting the arts and culture community of BC has finally received the news everyone dreaded to hear. The cuts are coming, and the cuts are BIG. Here we are less than six months to the Olympics and the cultural fabric of the province is being ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
The Lee Harrington workshop is going well. Registrations are coming in and I think it is going to be a REALLY outstanding group of people who show up. There are still seats available. I'm hoping the all get snapped up by as many people from my home town as possible. ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Doing relationships with intentional power dynamics
October 2, 3, 4 in Vancouver BC Canada
Still moving the furniture are and am considering paint colours over here in my corner of the WWW. In the meantime, I'm doing this really cool thing with Elaine Miller. I'm bringing Lee Harrington into town (Vancouver, BC, ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
As I get older I see beauty in unexpected places. And the beauty I was already aware of takes on a different significance.
The meaning of time has shifted. And with it my perspective. This comes as a shock to me. What I know. What I think I know. Where I've ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
SO EXCITED!
The news for this week is that I've engaged Lee Harrington to come to Vancouver for a 3-day D/s Intensive. Happening October 2, 3, 4, it is going to be QUITE the fabulous thing. I'm prepared to loose my shirt on it because it would cost me about as ...
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Looking around I said to myself the other day:
Dear Laundry:
You know I love your freshness when you are done, and the clean variety you offer. Without a question the site of you piled in a corner awaiting my attentions plagues my mind every time I search for something to wear. ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
So much I could say about the week that has gone by... Really. And then I look at my tweets for a week. What caught my eye, what I had time to toss out to the world. And I think to myself... My mind is actually a lot like my ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Being a sex-positive dyke, I've moved in a lot of spaces, queer and str8 where Eros abounds. But as a woman, the opportunity to to do what the boys do isn't really available. So I made something happen in my city. And in two other cities in Canada, other women ...
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
I'm planning to be a big 'ole queer during Vancouver's Pride. There's all kinds of LeatherDyke events I'm attending during August.
So... Stockholm Pride has this nifty thing that asks "How Hetero are you?" based on an analysis of one's Twitter feed. Quote "the way our fellow humans judge us can ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
My plan is to be an out proud homo this Pride. It will be the first spent together for me and my boi and I want to soak up all the gay I can possibly stand.
Below is a smattering of where you can expect to find me over the coming ...
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Spending time with my father makes it clear why I'm a CONSENSUAL dominant and watching him interact w/ females reminds me why I'm queer. #
Commercial entertainment, & porn go online to increase sustainability. Not the Tribe & community. Why? Does Fetlife help- Really? #
Black people, on average, are more likely ...
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
One of the things I love about parties with a dress code is that all persons present take a ~risk~ in being there. If I see my dentist... well, then both of us are in a position to out the other. There is some safety in that.
When a member of ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Last week there was a strong Olympic presence. This week it's all about being Black. Well... mostly.
On the queer front, I went to a screening of the pre-production, final cut of Aerlyn Weissman's film for Out on Screen the Portside. Good film. You should see it. Can I say how ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
The Olympics occurring in Vancouver next year have been on my mind a lot. Maybe because the frenetic pace of gearing up has been increasing at my work place.I link and link and link to stories.
Simultaneously, I see stories about movement forward in the sex-positive world. I link and link ...
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