Chap book for Fierce Hunger- Come on out to the Center for Sex and Culture tomorrow night and check it out. 6-10- Silent Auction, readings, dancing and more. it’s going to be a party!
Fierce Hunger
My work’s featured in the silent auction & chapbook at Fierce Hunger, the 10-year anniversary celebration for Writing Ourselves Whole.
a one-of-a-kind handmade book
3 issues of Diary
an online visual diary workshopMarch 2, 2013, 6-10pm
At the Center for Sex and Culture
1349 Mission St., SF (between 9th and 10th)a benefit to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Writing Ourselves Whole
Look at this gorgeousness. Join us to bid on it Saturday night!!!
This unique and amazing art is up for bid on Saturday at the Center For Sex and Culture. Dorian Katz is the artist and we couldn’t be more excited to have her work at the Fierce Hunger Silent Auction.
More Silent Auction and Raffle items!
Gift basket and gift certificate from the Sockshop in Berkeley, Art from the Dirty Ink Chapbook by artist Dorian Katz, just one of several chapbooks donated by writer Jen Cross, book bundle of hot queer erotica featuring stories written by Jen Cross, Paw for Consideration by Amy Butcher, along with a tour with the the author and $100 off the Queer Body Erotic workshop and the Gyro G- a waterproof and fun vibe from Good Vibes.
Getting things ready for the Silent Auction and raffle for Fierce Hunger March 2- CSC 6-10!
Above: Dorothy Allison Triple play, Too Good Gourmet Party in a Box, Nesting French Burlap Boxes, $50.00 Gift Certificate- Industrial Piercing, Signed Limited Edition Poster- The Craving Val Killmore Castro- comes with movie teaser, movie on DVD mailed to the bidder and two tickets to Val’s newest movie coming out this summer, IMsL collectible tote bag- 2009 full of lube, IMsL collectible Polo Style 25th Anniversary shirt, Corset and Tux mugs and Peets coffee- Poetry books by Marty Williams and Zippo Lighter. Much more to come!
Can’t wait- Saturday is almost here. Join us!
Dorothy Allison photograph, donated by Jill Posener
A signed, framed photograph of Dorothy Allison is being donated by Jill Posener the internationally acclaimed photographer and author. Her portrait and documentary photographs have been widely published in Europe and North America and she is well known for works such as Nothing But The Girl.
The Fierce Hunger Silent Auction just got even more exciting. Join us on March 2 to bid on this item and others, listen to amazing readings and dance dance dance! Center for Sex and Culture- 6-10- Saturday.
Photo- Sarah Deragon
Jen Cross-Founder and Facilitator- Writing Ourselves Whole
Fierce Hunger:
a benefit to celebrate
the 10th anniversary of
Writing Ourselves Whole
a benefit to celebrate
the 10th anniversary of
Writing Ourselves Whole
March 2, 2013, 6-10pm
At the Center for Sex and Culture
1349 Mission St., SF (between 9th and 10th)
Suggested donation: $20 (pay what you can!)
At the Center for Sex and Culture
1349 Mission St., SF (between 9th and 10th)
Suggested donation: $20 (pay what you can!)
Join us in celebrating ten years of fierce and hungry writing at the intersection of trauma and desire.
- Dancing with DJs Zanne and Junkyard!
- Silent auction—bid on dance lessons, original artwork, gift certificates to your favorite local body-centric service providers, fabulous queer porn, book collections and more!
- Readings with emcee Jen Cross, Carol Queen, Blyth Barnow, Jacks McNamara, Renee Garcia and others!
- Raffle—items include a chance to win $50 off a workshop of your choice
- Tasty treats and drinks
- Fierce Hunger chapbook, presenting ten years of Writing Ourselves Whole’s participants’ brilliant, gorgeous words.
- And more!
I created my dykeness as a problem, wore it like a skin, made it visible. Masculine or butch dykeness was a salve, something put on, protective and predatory. I was turning the tables.
We’re not supposed to do that, and if we do, we’re not supposed to say it. The party line in femme-butch communities is the (still, continued) sense and representation of an innate gender, something we’ve always known about ourselves (even if we didn’t have the words for it) and always held true to, never betrayed. Betrayal. I am that betrayer. I talk about when I was a boy, and how I’ve shifted. I lay claim to both/and.
We’re not supposed to do that, and if we do, we’re not supposed to say it. The party line in femme-butch communities is the (still, continued) sense and representation of an innate gender, something we’ve always known about ourselves (even if we didn’t have the words for it) and always held true to, never betrayed. Betrayal. I am that betrayer. I talk about when I was a boy, and how I’ve shifted. I lay claim to both/and.
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xox, iragray! “Surface Tensions” by Jen Cross; Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore [tw: to those of you wanting to read this book or are currently reading it, this essay discusses continuous, domestic rape]. (via iragray) |
Yes pls.
I COULD WRITE A TERRIBLE CONTEMPORARY ADULT EROTIC FICTION NOVEL IN THE TIME IT TAKES FOR THIS NAIL POLISH TO DRY.
NOT WITH WET NAILS, OBVIOUSLY, BUT YOU GET WHAT I’M SAYING.
Coming Home: Day 30— my body is more than a crime scene
2008)
where her body ought to be
She wants to put her body where her words are, fully into the flavor of sex, stunned with the liquid of meaning and possibility, and the most hostile vulnerability.
This is the skin I settle into, the girl behind the screen, the safely ensconced in pixels or pencils / and yes, writing is an embodying affair / it sloshes your stones with hopes / it asks your nerves to show up for the aching / but I can forget how to breathe today / and I would almost always rather write than fuck / because behind the skin of my page, I can just be that free woman / the one with no safety torn and scabbed beneath her nails / the one whose triggers are taxidermied and mounted on the wall for all to see / they are quiet behind glass when I am writing and cannot startle or snare anybody — not there. When I am writing, my triggers become works of art / almost admirable / almost:
