Voz Sutra // the practice of voice

Chap book for Fierce Hunger- Come on out to the Center for Sex...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:30:45 -0800

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

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:16:30 -0800

yisraelatzviah:

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 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!!!

fiercehunger: This unique and amazing art is up for bid on...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:13:22 -0800

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: More Silent Auction and Raffle items! Gift basket...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:44:42 -0800

fiercehunger:

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.

fiercehunger: Getting things ready for the Silent Auction and...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:52:06 -0800

fiercehunger:

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

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:04:10 -0800

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.

Photo- Sarah Deragon Jen Cross-Founder and Facilitator- Writing...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:25:00 -0800

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.

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..."

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:17:12 -0700

“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)

Yes pls. animalstalkinginallcaps: I COULD WRITE A TERRIBLE...

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:48:35 -0700

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.

Coming Home: Day 30— my body is more than a crime...

Wed, 30 May 2012 21:25:08 -0700

Coming Home: Day 30— my body is more than a crime scene

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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 29— perhaps On this near-last day of this...

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:21:51 -0700

Coming Home: Day 29— perhaps

On this near-last day of this month of transformative work, I’m hearing all the censor voices, the voices who don’t want this writing to happen, the voices who think this work is useless/indulgent/perverted/dangerous/stupid/non-revolutionary. I am hearing the voices of shut it down. I am hearing the voices of you are doing harm. I am hearing the voices of the perpetrators, the afraid, the lost, the broken — all those voices that still live in my skin.

Here I am writing anyway. All of that might be true: here I am writing anyway.

Read the rest here.

um — this is stunning. and check out the blog using this...

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:51:15 -0700

um — this is stunning. and check out the blog using this graffiti as its logo: http://thefemfatale.wordpress.com

"Our advice? Give yourself permission to really explore your mind and body during masturbation. Let..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:58:18 -0700

“Our advice? Give yourself permission to really explore your mind and body during masturbation. Let go of preconceptions of “wrong” or “right” and just be, just feel. We think many of us spend (waste) too much energy judging our own desires, wondering what other people would think about them. We spend so much time wondering if we are “bad” or “wrong” (what does that even mean, and by whose standards?); wondering if we are doing it “right” that we are stifling our desire. The really important thing is to allow ourselves to have - to own - our desires; give ourselves permission to feel them to whatever extent we are comfortable. There should be no judgement within our own heads, that is where we really can be fully ourselves. This is of course, not easy for many people - to be fully present and “naked” (emotionally and/or physically) with ourselves. It can take work to really love ourselves, but we assert that it is work worth doing.”

- http://thesexpositivephotoproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/masturbation-permission-to-feel-desire.html?zx=bf9fafffa8185904

we love Shilo McCabe!

Coming Home: Day 24 - all open-mouthed hunger In my dream, I am...

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:08:28 -0700

Coming Home: Day 24 - all open-mouthed hunger

In my dream, I am both intensely hungry and eruptive, bursting out of my very skin. I can’t remember much of it at all, just the feeling, just the sense that I am consuming everything and releasing, pushing out, emerging.

In this month, this year so far, I have met the layers and depths and nuances of my hunger — and it scares the shit out of me. We’re not supposed to admit that we’re as hungry as we are: for food, yes, and for desire, for success, adventure, family, love, creative expression, sex, sensation, books, words, color, sound, texture, travel, people, bodies, skin, poetry, flame, performance, space, freedom — it’s all open-mouthed hunger here, which is not necessarily a safe/protected space from which to meet the world. Yet, here’s this May-me, walking with my tongue hanging out, wanting to lick everything.

Read the rest here.

Coming Home: Day 23— dissociating (to) orgasm This...

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:59:53 -0700

Coming Home: Day 23— dissociating (to) orgasm

This morning, as I settled in under the water, I was thinking about dissociation and masturbation (how’s that for meta?) — the truth is, I don’t always fantasize about sex when I’m masturbating; in fact, when I first get started, I think about almost anything but sex: plans for the day, how sweet it was to play w Sophie out in the park, what I new to add to the shopping list, what I’m going to write here. After learning to fully dissociate while also experiencing extreme clitoral stimulation (as with a vibrator), I know how to both feel the pound of the water against me and keep it at a distance — it’s quite possible for me to have a vibrator on my clit for an hour or more and not be any closer to actually coming than when I started, if I don’t really pay attention. I have to focus, as with a kind of meditation, if I want to be in the rise to orgasm.

Read the rest here.

Coming Home: Day 19- using all of it. Once again it’s the...

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:04:00 -0700

Coming Home: Day 19- using all of it.

Once again it’s the end of the day before I can blog — it’s a workshop Saturday, and so after a morning orgasm (big and upending — more about that in a minute), it’s rush to eat, get Sophie to her playdate and get back to set up for the writing. After an workshop filled with excellent words and gorgeous community, I went with a friend to another friend’s and we made incredible food and played music and with kids and were generally California and fabulous and laughed and maybe cried a little inside and out and got to just be in these lives of ours. Who gets this?

These are my questions today (just two of very many more, actually): what does it mean to get to have orgasm be a routine part of my day? (Today’s was not routine, but still.) And: what does it mean to have writing and workshops just be a regular part of how I spend my time? (That is, not set apart, not special, not anxety-provoking — just… my real life.)

Read the rest here.

Coming Home: Day 18- can orgasms be romantic?

Fri, 18 May 2012 22:32:00 -0700

Today, I’ll tell you, I was in a movie.

Sometimes having the radio on can do that, make me feel like I’m right in the climax— and not the orgasm-y kind, necessarily, though those played a part in today’s imaginings. No, it’s more like pushing into that part where the heroine is finally experiencing her big change, is swelling all the way into the kiss or getting the big phone call from a publisher or agent that will change her life or she gets in the car, finally finally, and you can see that she’s really going to go this time— she’s going. She’s going.

What if the movie gets to be your real life?

Read the rest here.

Coming Home: Day 16 - getting caught up

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:28:40 -0700

Ok— back home, and I’m getting caught up. Two orgasms in five hours (just hush up if that sounds slow/easy for you — it’s a big deal for this girl here) — one I got to go to sleep after, one complete with sobs.

This morning, now, I feel full and raw, wide open, stripped, visible, vulnerable — and just right.

On legs like those of a newborn foal. You know that kind of wet and shaking, the newly borne thing just learning to bear its own weight? That’s where I’m living these days.

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Coming Home: Day 15 - (guest post!) Lighting a candle and keeping it real

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:29:26 -0700

Words today from my friend R_. He invites us to consider how we can use masturbation as a way to care for ourselves when we are depressed— and how, too, that can be so terribly challenging (So much gratitude to you, R_, for these words, this writing, your practice.)

It’s so good to have someone like Jen in the world, isn’t it? Lighting a candle, putting on the music we love, and keeping it real for us. This space we create together invites us to go to places within ourselves that need us as much as we need them. In this comfortable place we can tell each other stories of how it is. And how it is, is not always how we want it to be.

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Coming Home: Day 14 - the bifurcations are refusing

Mon, 14 May 2012 21:13:53 -0700

Still traveling, still exploring what embodiment means when I’m on the road and allowing new longings and textures and exhausts and sirens and aromas to touch my skin. Still walking my days withalmost, with so close, with right there right there right there — and letting them throb and hum through me continuously.

Read the rest here.