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See the ad banner in the upper right of our home page with the icon of Columbia that looks like this:

If you want to help promote Team Columbia’s upcoming special programming in connection with the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2-6, 2011, just drag that little poster onto your website or blog. We’d like to hear from you, too, of course, about how we can cross-promote what’s important to you.

Below, is a prepared blurb with brief details, also for your use.

Thanks, everyone, for your ongoing support.

CALENDAR LISTING

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 12, 2011 (Minneapolis, MN)

MEDIA CONTACT: Jay@venusplusx.org, 202-290-7077, www.vensusplusx.org

SEXUAL FREEDOM WORKSHOPS. In conjunction with Creating Change, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s conference in Minneapolis, a two-day program of Sexual Freedom Workshops, Demos, Political Caucuses, and Parties will take place Friday and Saturday, February 4-5, 2011, at Hotel Ivy (201 Eleventh Street). All events are FREE and open to the public and Creating Change attendees. Sponsored by DC-based Team Columbia and www.venusplusx.org, 202-290-7077.

in Events by Alison Gardner 13 Jan 2011 0 comments

We are all alike…

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Today Autumn Sandeen posted a wonderful comment on Pam’s House Blend, “Why Transgender Activism“. There’s no question mark at the end of the title, so we understand this is not asking the question, but answering it, and a fine answer it is. Basically, Autumn explains very clearly the dynamics which cause certain affinity groups of variant but related personalities to develop a broadened identity and serve as “umbrella” groups for a wide range of personal types. In particular, Autumn argues for the obvious need in the transgender community to have a broad umbrella group, accepting to all who will associate in the name of activism.

As it turns out, a month or so ago we wrote a small paper entitled “Why We Are All Transgender“, explaining why the transgender community is the final and complete activist umbrella for the union of all sexual freedom issues. This is true because the kind of personal expression we think of as transgender is the norm to which the human spirit is attuned and towards which the human advances with increasing age and wisdom. Androgyny is the norm for the transhuman superconsciousness that determines individual destiny. We will be talking more about universal androgyny in the near future. –Dan Massey

Get a Second Life

Have you ever dreamed of flying naked high above a city? Or making love to an eight-foot-tall humanoid? If you’ve netflixed James Cameron’s Avatar some lonely weekday night in the past few months, chances are you have.

Imagine and experience a virtual reality where you are free to privately and anonymously explore your sexuality and gender, to understand all the possibilities without any judgment, limitations, or consequences.

On Friday and Saturday, February 4 and 5, 2011, at The Hotel Ivy in downtown Minneapolis, VenusPlusX.org is sponsoring a 90-minute workshop and two noontime demonstrations all about the alternate universe of Second Life, which claims 15 million registered users worldwide. These events are part of two full days of sexual freedom programming, FREE and open to the general public and anyone going to the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change conference, expected to attract more than 2,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender visitors to Minneapolis Hilton right next door.

The Second Life workshop and demonstrations will make real-time use of this alternate reality. Virtual reality artists will be on hand to escort participants through its lush world of beaches, forests, and cities by providing individuals with custom-built avatars on laptop computers that will showcase the sexual and gender expression potential of the game.

The world of Second Life offers an opportunity that human beings have dreamed of for millennia, but that has been made possible only recently with developments in computer technology. The intersection of 21st century technology and the adult erotic experience has really just begun. Being able to exchange one set of names, faces, bodies, and identities for another, whenever one wishes, and for whatever reason offers us the potential to achieve greater, multi-dimensional understanding of our erotic selves.

For more, take a quick look at our schedule of workshops, presentations, demonstrations, political caucuses, parties, and more, in the Press Room.

—VenusPlusX.org’s Team COLUMBIA

in Cosmic Citizenship / Events / Key Issues / Public Information / Sex Education / Transhuman Erotic Freedom by Alison Gardner 09 Jan 2011 0 comments

Unity Without Uniformity

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COLUMBIA is a radically new philosophy of being that emphasizes the ideas and ideals that draw people together in mutual support, as opposed to the secondary qualities that differentiate one person from another. We are activists wholly dedicated to the sexual liberation of humanity worldwide. We are certain that, if all recognize their common nature and stand together, we can change the common culture, since such change benefits all. Last summer I wrote a short paper for Woodhull Freedom Foundation’s State of Sexual Freedom in the US Report 2010 showing how all the labels that society uses to divide us are based on forcing false choices on the individual. No one is perfectly male or female, and there is no standard for a perfect masculine or feminine presentation. Take a look at my paper, “I Am an Intersex Bisexual Transgender and So Are You,” to see what I mean, and we will talk about it more later. –Dan Massey

in Cosmic Citizenship / Library / Transhuman Erotic Freedom by Dan Massey 09 Jan 2011 0 comments

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