and now they press to tell me that I am brave. how sharply our children will be ashamed. taking at last their vengeance for these horrors. remembering how in so strange a time common integrity could look like courage. —Yevgeny Yevtushenko Shifting her weight nervously from one leg to the other, she fumbled to get [...]
Archive for the ‘Personal experience’ Category
Story of How to Improve the Future: Always Hate The Status Quo
19 May 2011 at 09:48
maymay
Bitter and jealous, Community, Personal experience, Personal history, Politics of sex
[A]ll of life is punctuated by stories, some more beneficial than others. At every stage narratives can prepare people for the future or steel them to bear the troubles and routines of the present. Moreover, these stories can disclose other folkways or recall past events that otherwise would be denied or forgotten. —Anne M. Wyatt-Brown, [...]
My unreal experience on the Kink, Inc. Armory Tour
EDITORIAL NOTE: This piece is long, for which I apologize, but some things cannot be clearly stated without careful attention to detail. For those of you who haven’t the time or patience to read this in one sitting, you can use the following mini-Table Of Contents to jump to the subsections of this post: “Every [...]
It’s foggy today: how BDSM and sex can be emotional self-medication in a cruel world
It was foggy in my (new) hometown of San Francisco today. I like fog. If I were weather I would be, I think, a dense fog. A friendly acquaintance of mine is fond of asking, “How’s your weather?” She does this instead of using the more common, “How are you?” I like her rephrasing because the [...]
March Events and a Segment on Sexploration with Monika
I’m unexpectedly more busy than I know how to handle. Between the theory and excellent commentary my post last week is generating and all that I’m doing, I wake up each morning (or, afternoon as the case may be) and don’t know what I want to engage with first. What an incredible turn-around from last [...]
An appeal for safe intellectual exploration: Touch me thoughtfully
Ever since I became the focus of certain political and legal pressure, I’ve been scared of reflecting too casually on thoughts or feelings filling me. For a time, this blog became more like a broadcast station than a personal journal. I also became guarded because the people closest to me, the ones from whom I [...]
