It’s rather staggering to look at everything that’s gonna happen in the next couple of weeks: Kyle flies down on Thursday to go to the Butch Voices conference. He’s been working his tail off on two sessions *and* a spoken word reading (of Asphalt.) I get to be his lovely assistant, and I’ve got my [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Butch Voices’
Big Week
Posted in Butch Voices, Casey, Kyle, tagged Butch Voices, Casey, Kyle on August 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Basking in It All
Posted in Butch Voices, Casey, Kyle, Visit, tagged Butch Voices, Casey, Kyle, Visit on October 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Over the past week and a half, I’ve gotten to spend 6 days with Casey and Kyle, and it’s been amazing and wonderful. Some of the highlights: Folsom Street Fair and meeting Saynine, Jewelgen and Ice Princess Piercing Kyle and Arron Inviting Kyle and Casey to come see my classroom and watch me teach A [...]
Butch New World
Posted in Becoming Roxy, Butch, Butch Voices, Casey, Kyle, tagged Becoming Roxy, Butch, Butch Voices, Casey, Kyle on September 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I have spent most of my life in the company of men. My best friends in school were frequently guys, and in college they were all guys. I loved working tech for shows, and I loved science and math, and I loved heavy metal…so the people I hung out with tended, also, to be guys. [...]
Privilege, Tolerance and the Struggle to Belong
Posted in Other Stuff, tagged Becoming Roxy, Butch Voices, Dyke March, Educating Roxy, Kyle, Real life, The Desire to Belong, Truth on July 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A few weekends ago I went to the Dyke March in San Francisco and found myself reacting very strongly to something that happened there. Before the march, while we were all gathering in the park, singers were performing on stage and the rest of us were all sitting together on the grass, enjoying the music [...]
Despite the Fear
Posted in Other Stuff, tagged Butch Voices, Educating Roxy, Fear, Kyle, Real life, Secrets, Truth on October 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
G, who writes one of my favorite sites, “can i help you, sir?”, recently posted this piece on being free from fear, which got me thinking. The list of things that everyone would do if fear were not an issue inspired another list in my head – the things I do despite sometimes mind-crushing fear. [...]
Black Rope
Posted in Other Stuff, tagged BDSM, Bois, Butch Voices, Flirting, Ivan Coyote, Real life on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of my most inspired and brilliant ideas ever was to volunteer at the registration desk for Butch Voices. Not only did I get to meet everyone as they arrived, but I had a wonderful excuse to ask them their names and flirt outrageously in the name of selfless public service. One very cute butch [...]
The Other Half of Heaven
Posted in Other Stuff, tagged Butch Voices, Kissing girls, Poetry, Real life on August 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
She was beautiful and fierce, soulful and sexy singing truths with a smile and a growl that made grown women fall to their knees in prayer. Eyes full of fiery protest, deep and intense, yours for a moment then looking away, as if afraid you (or she) couldn’t bear more. She, with glossy, thick black [...]
Thoughts on Day One of Butch Voices
Posted in Becoming Roxy, Butch, Other Stuff, tagged Becoming Roxy, Butch, Butch Voices on August 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Working the registration table is the best way to flirt with everyone. Ivan Coyote has an amazingly firm handshake. It left me grinning like crazy and I nearly forgot to let go. Not everyone here is comfortable about having femmes in the space, but, nonetheless, they’ve been very welcoming. OCD math teachers are really good [...]
