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The Sexual Freedom Project: “I AM” Gina
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnOz2Ff17q8″ pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Here’s another great video from the I AM: Trans People Speak project of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition. Please be sure to check out their website for more information and videos of trans individuals telling their own stories in their own words. Gina identifies as a union elevator constructor, a parent, a dog…
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A Transhuman Views the Singularity Summit 2011
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Last weekend (10/15-16/2011) it was my pleasure to attend Singularity Summit 2011, an event presented annually by the Singularity Institute since 2006. As much as Arse Elektronika celebrated the freedom of citizen science and engineering in pursuit of more fun and joy for everybody, so Singularity Summit celebrated actual and potential financial success and public…
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Nov 17 Transgender Day of Action Poster Available
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We hope you will lift this poster and put it up on your website or blog, where you work, play, and live. The direct action planned for November 17 is in conjunction with the DC Transgender Day of Remembrance to follow on November 20. We are getting the word out and hope that anyone in…
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HPV Alert! Stop! Breathe.
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Recently people have been alerted to new facts about the Human Papilloma Virus, known as HPV, a sexually transmitted virus known to cause cervical cancer in women and other cancers, predominately in women but also in men. HPV really represents a cluster of over 100 viruses, most of which are not cancer causing. But now we know…
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VenusPlusX Job Openings (10/24/11)
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Join us in our mission aimed at ushering in “The New Age of Sexual Freedom” – a world free from the global culture of racial, sexual, and gender oppression and violence driven by governments, religions, corporations, and social customs. You can view the job openings currently available at VenusPlusX here. Some are based in DC…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: Disconnect
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcXPMkd_4UA” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] How did where you were raised affect what you were taught about sex, and the kinds of conversations you had about sex? What role did religion play in what you were taught or what you talked about? How have you overcome any negative ideas about sex — or even just ignorance about sex? Who should…
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What is the Kingdom of Heaven?
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español The Name of God has been a subject of superstition and speculation throughout human history. Much confusion has arisen from an inability to imagine a deity of sufficient power, presence, and knowledge to consistently satisfy all humanity’s putative requirements for a god to satisfy. We have revealed that…
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Wartime Sexual Abuse — of Men and Boys
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“Everybody has heard the women’s stories. But nobody has heard the men’s,” says Stewart M. Patrick, a senior fellow at the DC-based, non-partisan think tank The Council on Foreign Relations, writing for The Internationalist. His recent report was widely circulated this summer on the startling 22% of males and 30% of females who have been sexually assaulted as…
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Running Out of Time (video)
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGRXCgMdz9A” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] We were really impressed with this video which brings into sharp relief some of the dissonance and hypocrisy of American politicians’ sweeping calls for democracy and equality abroad, through the UN, in the US Congress, and from the White House. They take seriously the populist rebellions in repressive foreign nations, at least…
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What is the Word of God?
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español In my recent post What is the Name of God? I explained that one must recognize two concepts of deity. One is the absolutely perfect omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent deity (the omni-cubed god), whose acts in infinite space and eternal time are necessarily uniform and invisible, who putatively makes…