Voz Sutra // the practice of voice

Mar 01

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!

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

yisraelatzviah:

My work’s featured in the silent auction & chapbook at Fierce Hunger, the 10-year anniversary celebration for Writing Ourselves Whole.

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a one-of-a-kind handmade book
3 issues of Diary
an online visual diary workshop

Fierce Hunger

March 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!!!

Feb 28

fiercehunger: 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.

fiercehunger:

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.

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Feb 27

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Feb 26

Dorothy Allison photograph, donated by Jill Posener

fiercehunger:

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.

Feb 22

Photo-  Sarah Deragon Jen Cross-Founder and Facilitator- Writing Ourselves Whole Fierce Hunger: a benefit to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Writing Ourselves Whole March 2, 2013, 6-10pmAt the Center for Sex and Culture1349 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! 

Photo-  Sarah Deragon

Jen Cross-Founder and Facilitator- Writing Ourselves Whole

Fierce Hunger:
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!)
 
Join us in celebrating ten years of fierce and hungry writing at the intersection of trauma and desire.  

Oct 02

“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.” —

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)

(Source: iragray)

Sep 20

Yes pls. animalstalkinginallcaps: 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.

Yes pls.

animalstalkinginallcaps:

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.

May 30

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: Read the rest here. 

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:
Read the rest here.