Matthias with his senior thesis installation at Maine College of Art.
May 2012(Photo courtesy of Emma Sampson)
fuck yeah rand leather!
Kristen & Sinclair Answer Your Questions, Episode 3: “How Can I Be More Open About Kink?”
Laura asks: “I am a kinky queer femme bottom/sub and have read your blog for a long time. The thing that strikes me most is how open you, and also Kristen, are about your explorations and your celebration of your gender and sexuality. I am only 23 but have known I was queer and a submissive since pre-adolescent years, and it feels like I will never be comfortable fully expressing myself or finding my voice except with my partners, because I still get ashamed/embarrassed about all of it sometimes, especially when I think about my family or straight and/or vanilla friends finding out. How did you overcome those feelings to be more open, if you ever had them?”
Love this! (via Fifty Shades of Grey, as read by Ellen DeGeneres | BlogHer)
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Call for submissions: Salacious #2 (queer feminist sex art & literature)
—————— CALL FOR SALACIOUS #2 ——————
—- VOYEURISM —-
DEADLINE: MARCH 10, 2011
Email us at submit@salaciousmagazine.com
What does it mean to be a voyeur? We here at SALACIOUS think that in this new-fangled century there are a myriad of ways to be voyeuristic, and we want you to show and tell us how voyeurism gets you hot! Submit your comics, illustrations, photos, and stories highlighting how you get your voyeur on.
Please keep the below specs and mission statement in mind
when you submit to us.
Specs for illustrations and comics:
Black and White or Full Color
8.5×11
No bleeds
(Please leave at least .5 inches of white border)
300 dpi
JPEG, PDF, TIFF, PSD
Specs for the written word:
Maximum 2,500 words
Short stories, poetry, and more accepted
Most submissions will be illustrated in some capacity by an artist-on-call.
Specs for Photography:
Black and White or Full Color
8.5×11
No bleeds
(Please leave at least .5 inches of white border)
300 dpi
JPEG, PDF, TIFF, PSD
Please keep the following Content Mission in mind
should you choose to submit something to SALACIOUS:
- SALACIOUS is queer. While we’re not going to tell you what queer should mean to you, please keep this in mind as you compose your work.
- SALACIOUS is feminist. We consider reproductions of typically sexist, misogynist sex and sexuality offensive, unimportant, and not worthy of printing.
- SALACIOUS is anti-racist. We reject racist representations, insist on a multi-racial editorial board and contributor base, and seek to understand racism, like sexism, in relation to local and international inequities of power.
- SALACIOUS is aimed at titillation, as much as it is aimed at high art. Please therefore submit work you are nothing but deeply proud of. Just because it’s naughty doesn’t mean it has to be poorly done.
Call for Submissions: Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink
From Lee Harrington’s LJ
Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink
In 2009, Lee Harrington’s “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond” opened up the dialogue around altered states of consciousness, sexuality with intent, sex magic, and BDSM and its intersections with faith to an audience hungry for information. Now, it’s time to tell your stories.
Have you experienced catharsis, ordeals, transformation or a rite of passage in your erotic edge experiences? Do your perceive your consensual slavery as an ascetic path, find depth in your fear play, or dance in delight at the end of a lash? Do your fetish objects hold actual power? Does your connection to the divine manifest through your kink, engaging you through possession in or through scenes or as a sacred consort? Perhaps you have a different tale to tell?
Authors are invited to write 2-10 pages (approximately 1000-5500 words) about their own personal experiences with Sacred Kink. Anthology contributions need to be about a specific encounter or theme/concept within the life of the author, not on Sacred Kink in general. Fiction is not appropriate. Poetry will be considered on a case by case basis.
Who Should Contribute:
We are looking for a variety of contributions- Tops and Bottoms, Masters/Mistresses and Slaves, Fetishists, Voyeurs, Swingers, Male, Female, Genderqueer, Straight, Queer, Monogamous, Polyamorous, Monotheist, Pantheist, Atheist, God-Owned… and everyone else. English-language contributions preferred, but multi-lingual entries accepted on a case by case basis.
How To Contribute:
Send a one-paragraph summary of the concept of what you want to write about to Lee@PassionAndSoul.com with the subject line “Spirit of Desire Anthology” before August 1st, 2010. Also include up to one paragraph about yourself as the author.
Why the summaries first? A book of only one type of entries would not show the diversity of Sacred Kink encounters and experiences taking place in our community and behind closed doors.
Once summaries have been accepted, authors will have until September 7th to get their rough draft in. New authors will be worked with throughout the process to help share their unique story with the world.
Are you ready to tell your tale of Sacred Kink? Drop us a line.
Compensation:
Authors will have their biographies listed in the book, have wholesale rights to the project, and receive 1 finished copy of the book upon completion.
The BDSM ritual may be predominantly sexual in expression, however the goal is not gratification per se, but ecstasy. BDSM is, above and beyond a physical need, the psyche’s effort to make sex a sacrament. Only through the understanding and acceptance of the sacramental value of submission will slavehood be true. By the same token, of course, it also becomes holy. — J. Mikael Togneri
