Archive for the ‘Culture & Community’ Category
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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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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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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Friday, March 13th, 2009
A friend of mine, EM, emailed me this week to rhetorically scream about engaging in fruitless battles on FetLife. The question prompting her email? Is Poly Queer. In this case it was heterosexuals appropriating the land queers stand on. "How do I get sucked into these things?" she asked.
I read ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
From: Leather Journey
by Chris M (Black Rose) and Lady Medora (NOPE)
In fairness, we don't want to suggest that leatherfolk are inherently rude people. The scene, as wonderful as it can be, contains many subtle and seldom discussed "stress factors" that contribute to uncivil behavior. Like water over a stone, these ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Do you remember when you first saw this piece? It came to me in email what seems like loooong ago. I've thought about this because of experiences I had at conferences I've been travelling to over the past year and a half. I've looked for a way to get permission ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
February’s issue of Kink-e-Zine, honouring Black History Month, has just launched, & it has shaped up to be one of the biggest issues yet! For some of us, it’s a beautiful tribute, & for other it’s a valuable education---regardless, they are proud to present it to you.
Features on the inside:
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Seems like a lot of people have migrated in that direction. I've found myself increasingly in conversations wherein a person makes reference to or quotes FetLife or a person who posts there.
So strange.
Part of what is interesting to me is how CLEAR online space can twist the identity and purposes ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
OMFG
I'm not admittng where I got this crazy link to a game that features a dom and her sub travelling through a dungeon, whipping their opponents and collecting various toys fo extra life and for use as weapons...
http://www.adultswim.com/games/game/index.html?game=dungeons
Loving it and the sound effects too...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Is it possible that my personal experience of prostituting my charge - which was very much based in D/s with all kinds of BDSM - wasn't... real? authentic? wrong? what? What was I engaging in?
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Goodness... there certainly is a lot of the "Church of the One True Way" around... Can Pimps be Dominants? Can pimps/prostitutes be in the lifestyle? YEESH. The people I talk to...
Do any of you KNOW any Sex Trade Workers? 'Cause I know a pile. For some it is supplemental, others ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The fact is that when a group of "friends" get together, they don't have to think of anyone but themselves. They are friends. The fact that all of you move through the same dungeon doesn't automatically make you their friend or make them yours. And their movement (hate the us ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Message from Darque who is a person who posts over on the Yahoo Group for Black BDSMers: Dark Connections
Ok I 'm pitching this one out to everyone that considers themselves a part of the Community. I've been looking at various posts, blogs and opinions and most of it is at ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Currently I've got - as always - several on the go. In no particular order:
1. Black Wine - Candace Jane Dorsey
2. The Value in the Valley - Iyanla Vanzant
3. Bitch Goddess - edited by Pat Califia & Drew Campbell
4. Owned, Reflections of a Submissive - Toya
5. The Ethical Slut ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Really? I mean... Really?
http://www.jesus21.com/content/sex/index.php?s=hankies
QUOTE:
In 1208 Christian armed forces attacked the town of Beziers, France slaughtering 20,000 men, women and children accused of heresy. When the commanding legate, Arnaud, was asked how to tell the heretics from the believers he answered, 'Kill them all, let God sort them out.' (1)
Today, as ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
I'm getting all warmed up to go to Leather Reign. And of course I can't sleep 'cause I have to take a bus at 5:30 a.m.
I've been having conversations lately with someone that centre around "Leather". Recently we were talking about "Leather Families". Not having had the option/opportunity to experience ...
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Went to the meeting last night. Everyone worked hard to ensure a smooth transition.
It was good though under attended. A steering committee was self-selected and a broad framework for moving forward was sketched out. There is progress and, in the room last night, an ABUNDANCE of good will.
I sent this ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
FINAL CALL OUT:
Community Meeting for Vancouver Dungeon
Date: Wednesday, July 4th
Time: 7:00
Location: Given with Confirmation of RSVP
Directions: Given with Confirmation of RSVP
This meeting is being held to elect a board for Vancouver Dungeon and for us to give details of what is being donated to the community.
If you ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
VANCOUVER S/M GROUP LAUNCHES COMMUNITY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BIO Event Production, Vancouver's largest alternative lifestyle event production company, announced on Saturday night its intention to launch Vancouver Dungeon as a separate, non-profit community organization in September, 2007. BIO will continue to operate independently as a commercial venture.
The first community-run play ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
There's a great survey at the end....
THE DOMINATRIX FACTOR
A little S&M on the job can take you a long way - No whips or chains are needed, but women with fantasies of getting ahead can put role-playing to smart use, a new book suggests
The Globe And Mail
Wednesday, April ...
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NubianImp Projects strives to: provide forums for advanced education and celebration (to strengthen the bonds within community, tribes and chosen-family) through sex-positive event production aimed at queers and their allies.
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