RAWdance
May 23-25, 2005
Gallery @ 7:30, Performance @ 8:00
$5-15 Sliding Scale
Contact: raw@rawdance.org, 415.686.0728

Throughout history, the human body has been scienced, looked at through a medical lens to derive narratives of our sexual histories and to create maps of our sexuality. Drawing on the history of sexology, Scripting Intimacies explores how definitions imposed on our physical and sexual identities impact our self-perception and our intimate relationships. With a mixture of text, dynamic movement, and intricate partnering, the performance by RAWdance is set amidst an installation of original photography by queer photographer and collaborator Shawn Tamaribuchi. Founded in 2004 by Ryan T. Smith and Wendy Rein, RAWdance aims to explore the power and vulnerability of the human body through driven, visceral movement. Scripting Intimacies was developed in part through an AIRSpace residency at the Jons Sims Center for the Arts.

Photo by Shawn Tamaribuchi

Deep-Ocean presents Crave May 27 -- a party for FTMs and the men who crave them. Crave: A New Era in Man on Man Action Sex Party for FTMs (Female to Male) /Transmen, Bois, and all the Guys who crave them. Hit SOMA on 5/ 27 for a hot night of bad boy fun. A twenty gets you in the door. To get the address and hold your spot please RSVP to events@deep-ocean.com. Doors open at 8pm and the party goes until 1am. Food and safer sex supplies provided at all Deep Ocean events. www.deep-ocean.com.

The CSC's own live Masturbate-a-Thon will be held May 28th. All details shortly on CSC's site and on www.masturbate-a-thon.com -- besides hosting a live event for people of all orientations and genders, we hope to again webcast this one-of-a-kind pro-solo-sexual fundraiser! Download a pledge form and get pledges, or pledge yourself and c'mon down.

The new Bay Area poly-progressive group, Love+Politics hosts CSC's own friend and queer feminist economic/social justice advocate, sacred sexologist Loraine Hutchins, Ph.D., direct from Washington, DC. It's a potluck and her topic is -- Sacred Sexualities’ Blessed Absurdities -or- Building Beloved Communities During War & Patriarchy.

Saturday May 28th, 6pm-9:30pm
2139 O'Farrell. Potluck begins at 6:00, meeting starts promptly at 7.

2139 O'Farrell is just 1 block from the intersection of Geary & Divisidaro. The #38 Geary bus (which picks up near downtown SF BART) drops off on Geary about a block away. Parking is free in the evening in the Garage across the street. Be aware the building is behind the Kaiser Shuttle parking lot and can be difficult to see behind the big buses parked in front. This is not wheelchair accessible. Childcare provided. For more info, please contact Sally at brightfritz@comcast.net or 415.310.8351
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"Love+Politics is a group of people who identify as polyamorous, queer,or sex-positive, and who regard that identity as deeply connected to their desire to make the world a better place through progressive activism."

Note: this event is not being held at the Center for Sex & Culture, but the fabulous Loraine has taught with us before and she'll be joining interested attendees on a visit to the Masturbate-a-Thon after her talk. As she as a bisexual activist would be the first to point out, you don't have to choose!


Beer, Sex & BLOW III

benefiting: The Center For Sex & Culture & BLOW - Beautiful Lips On Whistles

* Sunday May 29th, 2005, Memorial Day Weekend, 3-6 p.m. @ the SF Eagle, 12th & Harrison Streets, San Francisco www.SFEagle.com

The BLOW Project will present the Annual BLOW
(Beautiful Lips On Whistles) Lifetime Achievement Award.
* $8 beer/beverage bust includes dinner raffle-o-porno tickets $2 each, 3 tickets for $5
& our inseam special $10 - two people for $20! Hundred$$$ in prizes and give-a-ways
- = Putting the pagan into propaganda & the art into parties = - Beautiful Lips On Whistles - Beautiful Lips On Whistles is a grassroots campaign using the safety whistle as a symbol of empowerment against hate crimes. Hate is taught with ideas of intolerance and escalate into violence based on religious and moral high grounds. Education stops hate. Do your part.

CSC joins many other Bay Area art and culture organizations in celebrating ArtSFest -- www.artsfestsf.org. Thursday evening, May 19, join us for a reading/spoken word event called Pleasure's Edges. We host our favorite erotic writers and sexual adventurers for an evening of true stories and memoir. A complete list of participants will be on the website soon, but look for host Carol Queen, Blake C. Aarens [note -- she's doing another of her fabulous one-day workshops on June 5th, save the date!], Patrick Califia, Thomas Roche, Kirk Read, and others!



Come Celebrate the 35th Anniversary and new edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves with book contributors and OBOS Executive Director Judy Norsigian. The afternoon will consist of a thought-provoking Q&A, hosted by Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen. Participants may address issues of sexuality, childbearing, growing older, relationships, and living a healthy and fulfilling life.

Judy Norsigian is the executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves, a nonprofit organization devoted to education about women and health.

Dr. Carol Queen is an award-winning author of erotica and essays, widely anthologized and published online and in magazines and periodicals. A renowned sex-educator, Carol also serves as Staff Sexologist at Good Vibrations.

Our Bodies, Ourselves Bay Area Contributors:

Barbara Brenner is Executive Director of Breast Cancer Action, a national grassroots education and advocacy organization. First diagnosed with breast cancer at 41, she has helped organize people to do something besides worry about the disease ever since.

Ellen R. Shaffer is a director of the Center for Policy Analysis, which conducts policy research on access to health care and on economic globalization and health.

Emily Bender, MA, NC is a nutrition consultant who specializes in women's health and fertility.
Adele E. Clarke, PhD is professor of sociology and history of medicine at UC San Francisco. She is coeditor of Women's Health: Differences and Complexities (Ohio State University Press, 1997) and Revisioning Women, Health and Healing (Routledge, 1999).

Note: This is not a CSC event, but CSC director Carol Queen is moderating it and it will likely interest many CSC members: Celebrate 35 Years of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" -- the groundbreaking book on women's health and sexuality -- with OBOS executive director Judy Norsegian, a panel of experts, and moderator Carol Queen.

Saturday, May 21, 1 to 4 pm, $29.99, and bring a friend for $10 extra
Location TBA; downtown San Francisco

Sponsored by The Learning Annex and Good Vibrations; sign up at www.learningannex.com or at (415) 788-5500
 

On May 14th Carol and Robert will be special guests at the Portland (OR) Masturbate-a-Thon hosted by Darklady -- see www.masturbate-a-thon.org for all details. Pending final confirmation, Carol will read at Mother Kali's Books in Eugene on May 15th.


 Carol's art is featured at the Sex Worker Film and Art Fest Opening Party (a benefit for the St. James Infirmary):
Sunday, May 1st 7-10 PM, $10- $20, sliding scale
398 11th Street (near Harrison) San Francisco
415-751-1659 for publication and media

Featured artists and performers Sister Kitty Catalyst- Mistress of Ceremonies; Kitten On the Keys; Sadie Lune; Ginger Virago; Stacey Swimme; The Debbys from Australia Exhibitors: Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle; Tallulah Bankheist; Duran Ruiz; Elizabeth Stephens, Kevin P. Mosley, Nellie Wilson, Mim Weisburd, Katie Gilmartin, Carol Queen, Norma Jean Almodovar, Dara S., Sharon Leong, Frog and Jane Cassell. Vendors- Dee Dee Russell and more!

Sister Kitty Catalyst has been a threat to the status quo in San Francisco since 1993. She continues to organize and produce alternative and counter-culture events while putting the pagan into propaganda. Kitten on the Keys who won the SF Weekly Music Award in the New Genre/Beyond Catagory for her campy vaudvillian performances of her kinky cabaret ditties in 2003! At the 2nd Annual NY Burlesque festival, Kitten won a Golden Pastie Award for being the Biggest Tease! The Debbys from Australia-Debby doesn’t do it for free, contradicts the mainstream media run of Sex work sleaze. US and Canadian audiences have a one off chance to experience this complex, colourful, Pro-whore documentation of sex worker experiences. Film, performance, song, soundscape, poetry, fanzines, satire, installation, and workshops offer up a confronting, collective voice as sex worker autonomous organising takes over the gallery, stage and screen. You will find no Pretty Woman amongst the Debby’s. Other performers include Stacey Swimme, Sadie Lune, Ginger Virago and Dee Dee Russell. Special guests include Scarlot Harlot (Festival Director) and Annie Sprinkle. Carol's art hangs with many other fabulous sex worker/artists'. Carol's secret life includes making collages, almost always with sexual and spiritual content; they riff off the archetype of the Sacred Whore, among other cultural influences. She has shown at CityArt gallery, Sacred Profanities, and at the Sex Worker's Art Show in Olympia. Email her to discuss a custom collage, if you want one.
For more about the event and the artists:
http://www.bayswan.org/swfest2005/artshow.html



 Carol Queen -- in conjunction with the 4th Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival and the Center for Sex & Culture -- premieres her solo spoken word piece, Peep Show. Friday, May 6 at 10 pm at the Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street in San Francisco. $12. http://www.bayswan.org/swfest2005/queen.html (for ticket info, hit the "back" button at the bottom of this page)

Go behind the scenes at the pre-union Lusty Lady Theatre with Carol Queen, who worked there as Minx Manx in 1990! In Peep Show she introduces you to her colleagues in tall boots and blonde wigs and to a few of her most notable customers as she found her calling (and her exhibitionistic self) in the Private Pleasures booth, where anyone could come to Talk To A Live Nude Girl!

Carol Queen is the author of Exhibitionism for the Shy, Real Live Nude Girl, and The Leather Daddy and the Femme and the co/editor of seven other books. She's been in several sex ed videos, including Bend Over Boyfriend, and is both the director of the Center for Sex & Culture and the staff sexologist at Good Vibrations.

There are many reasons to masturbate, but probably none as important as pleasure -- so to welcome this year's National Masturbation Month, we're going to celebrate orgasm with Good Vibrations Founder Emerita Joani Blank and her unique movie "Orgasm! The Faces of Ecstasy." Joani and her colleagues from Libido Video interviewed twenty-two Bay Area residents (male, female, and trans, aged 22 to 68) and then asked them to have orgasms for the cameras. Shot only from the shoulders up, the resulting movie is an intensely intimate yet non-explicit exploration of human sexual response, and you've never heard anything as thought-provoking as their interviews. (Note for masturbation purists: a few orgasms in this video result from partner sex.) Joani Blank will be on hand to talk about making "Orgasm! Faces of Ecstasy" -- and she'll bring some of the movie's stars to talk about their experience getting intimate with the camera. Hosted by Dr. Carol Queen (who is one of the performers in "Orgasm!"), and co-sponsored by Good Vibrations and The Center for Sex & Culture. Ticket price $8 (cash only). Partial proceeds to the Center for Sex & Culture.

Time 5-8 pm Saturday, May 7th
At the Parkway Theatre: 1834 Park Boulevard, Oakland
Directions and more about the Parkway at http://www.picturepubpizza.com/