Alison Gardner
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¡También en Español!
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Con la vuelta de VenusPlusX después del relanzamiento de su nuevo look y navegación, ya estamos listos para planear el relanzamiento de VenusMasX. Mientras tanto, éste sigue manteniendo la función del hogar de numerosas traducciones del material de VenusPlusX. VenusMasX está lista para entrar en su segunda fase de vida, por lo cual, este año estamos buscando a…
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This is the third installment about Giulio Prisco’s upcoming book entitled, tentatively, Tales of The Turing Church. A draft of his chapter, “Sex and the Art of Cosmic Governance,” that includes recollections of his many interactions with VenusPlusX Co-founder Dan Massey. Part 1 included an excerpt from Dan’s talk at the Transvision conference where we met Giulio for…
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This is the second installment about Giulio Prisco’s upcoming book entitled, tentatively, Tales of The Turing Church. A draft of his chapter, “Sex and the Art of Cosmic Governance,” that includes recollections of his many interactions with VenusPlusX Co-founder Dan Massey. Part 1 included an excerpt from Dan’s talk at the Transvision conference where we met Giulio for…
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Our dear friend, Giulio Prisco, is writing a book entitled, tentatively, Tales of The Turing Church, and sent us this draft chapter, “Sex and the Art of Cosmic Governance,” that includes recollections of his many interactions with VenusPlusX Co-founder Dan Massey. (This post continues in Part 2 and Part 3.) Giulio is a physicist and computer scientist, and…
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Until we meet again . . .
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Dan and I have just spent the last a couple months retooling our website to focus more directly on the campaigns that have become the most important to us, and finishing our book on erotic communion that we have been researching and writing for the last 3 years. Look for more info on both. For…
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International Transgender Day of Remembrance in DC
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This month’s official DC Transgender Day of Remembrance honors all of those who have died in the strucggle for equality, and their families, as activists rededicate themselves to help answer today’s community concerns. Celebrated internationally, the Transgender Day of Remembrance in DC will take place at 6 PM, Tuesday, November 20, 2012, at the DC…
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(También en español) “The ‘raging frenzy’ of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has always defied control. However, that’s not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not tried, wielding their most formidable weapon: the law.” From Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric…
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Kink Forwarding Sexual Freedom Rights
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(También en español) Gay and straight Leather culture and BDSM culture combine under the mantle of Kink. Together these sexual freedom warriors are taking a machete to the underbrush of the sexual rights movement, blazing a trail that puts in play every question of civil rights and human rights in modern society, including the freedom…
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Sexual Outlaws or Intentional Families?
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(También en español) We are really looking forward to hearing from Family Law Attorney Diana Adams this weekend at the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance’s Sexual Freedom Summit (Silver Spring, MD, September 21-23). Her workshop, “21st Century Families: Cultural and Legal Shifts toward Family Freedoms,” will chart the decline of heterosexual monogamous nuclear families, once in the majority, to today’s…
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Mass Incarceration: Follow The Money (Part 2)
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America’s unconstitutional militarization of local and state law enforcement, based on racial hatred and racial politics, and the training, munitions, and financial incentives that support it, has created a new Police State. Slavery ended, and reactionary Jim Crow laws replaced it, and now Mass Incarceration, called The New Jim Crow by scholars, is imprisoning people of color for…