Tristan Taormino

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Submit Your Feminist Porn – Calls For Submissions

Jun 202012
 

Attention filmmakers! Polish off your short sexy films and submit them to one (or all) of these great festivals and contests.

The Petra Joy Award 2012
 This is an erotic short film competition for aspiring female filmmakers – women who are either completely new to filmmaking or amateur directors who have not been distributed yet. The theme of the second Petra Joy Award is “Female Fantasies”. Petra Joy is a pioneer of female-focused porn and has always promoted female sexual liberation and self-expression in her erotic films, books and workshops for women. The duration of the film can be anything between one to ten minutes. The genre is open – from animation to documentary or erotic vignettes – we welcome all films that feature female fantasies and in an innovative, creative and artistic way. A fresh, creative approach is much more important to us than technical perfection. Deadline is August 31, 2012. Details here.

HUMP! 2012
The Stranger and Portland Mercury are looking for short porn films – five minutes max – to be screened at HUMP! 2012 over three weekends in November in Seattle, Portland, and Olympia. Films can be hardcore, softcore, live action, animation, kinky, vanilla, straight, gay, lez, bi, trans, genderqueer – anything goes! (Well, except no poop, no animals, no minors.) Deadline for submissions is October 5, 2012. Click here for info on cash prizes and where to send your film.

Good Vibes International Indie Erotic Film Competition
Submit your short erotic-themed film to THE QUICKIES – Good Vibrations international Indie Erotic Film Competition and you may end up a star!  Whether you’re a professional artiste, art student, budding filmmaker, or just having fun with your Flipcam, we want to see your stuff!  What’s erotic?  You tell us! Funny, serious, gay, straight, if you think it’s hot, we want to see it in 7 minutes or less.  Our 2012 Grand Prize Winner will receive $1,500 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on October 26th!  Submissions must be received by June 30, 2012. Details on how to submit.

The 2012 Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
This annual film festival, is celebrating its 10th year, and has expanded to a ten day event presented in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Films and videos submitted can be of any length and should be of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender communities.  This year the festival is excited to add a new shorts program of erotic films.  While many LGBT films feature love stories and a bit of titillation, this shorts program is an opportunity for erotic films to have their own dedicated showcase.  We are looking for short films that particularly highlight authentic eroticism and desire from a variety of perspectives.  Deadline is Friday, July 14, 2012. Submission guidelines here.

June 22: Jaclyn Friedman on Yes Means Yes Anti-Rape Culture, How to Achieve Sexual Subjectivity, and Feminist Sex Education

Jun 192012
 

This week on Sex Out Loud we will be LIVE for the very first time, talking with author and activist Jaclyn Friedman. We want you to join in the conversation, so we’ll be hearing from listeners while on the air.  Call in & talk to us at 866-472-5788.

Writer, editor, performer, and activist Jacyln Friedman has been instrumental in presenting new ways of thinking about preventing rape without shaming or blaming women. In our first live show, we’ll discuss with her the success of her book, Yes Means Yes, as well as her latest release, What You Really Really Want. Jaclyn will talk about discovering what safe and shame-free sex means to us both as individuals and as a society, including stories of her own journey through feminist sex education to become “this generation’s version of Dr. Ruth.”

Jaclyn Friedman is a feminist evangelist, and the editor of the hit book Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (one of Publishers’ Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009, and #11 on Ms. Magazine’s Top 100 Feminist Nonfiction of All Time list). Her new book, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety, was recently named a finalist for ForeWord’s Book of the Year Award in Women’s Issues. Friedman is a popular speaker on campuses and at conferences across the U.S. and beyond. She has appeared on radio and TV including on the BBC’s World Have Your Say, Democracy Now, Q, and To The Contrary, and her commentary has appeared in outlets including CNN, The Washington Post, and The Nation. Friedman is the Executive Director of Women, Action & the Media, a national organization working for gender justice in media. She is also a charter member of CounterQuo, a coalition dedicated to challenging the ways we respond to sexual violence.

June 15: Kate Bornstein on Gender, Kink, Mental Health, Scientology, and Her New Memoir

Jun 122012
 


My next guest on Sex Out Loud is author, performer, playwright, and gender theorist Kate Bornstein. Join us on Friday, June 15 at 5:00 pm Pacific time/8:00 pm Eastern time on the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network when we’ll talk about her new memoir, her years as a high-ranking Scientologist working directly for L. Ron Hubbard, her transition, BDSM and kink, her time as a collared slave, the documentary being made about her, her own mental health and the struggles LGBT folks with mental health issues face. Plus, she’ll read one of the most provoactive sections from A Queer and Pleasant Danger.

Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright and performance artist whose latest book is her memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger. Other published works include the books Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, My Gender Workbook, Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives To Suicide For Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws and the cyber-romance-action novel, Nearly Roadkill with co-author Caitlin Sullivan. Kate’s plays and performance pieces include Strangers in Paradox, Hidden: A Gender, The Opposite Sex Is Neither, Virtually Yours, and y2kate: gender virus 2000.

Kate’s books are taught in over 120 colleges and universities around the world; and she has performed her work live on college campuses, and in theaters and performance spaces across the USA, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria. Kate is currently touring colleges, youth conferences and high schools, speaking, leading workshops, and performing. Follow her on Twitter @KateBornstein.

Kate Bornstein Is A Queer and Pleasant Danger

Jun 062012
 

We love the work of Kate Bornstein. We love the work of Sam Feder. We love supporting both of them in this important project! Read details below and visit the Kickstarter page to watch the video.

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People who know and love Kate Bornstein and her work can’t believe that a film about her has never been made.  She has been an inspirational figure for decades, motivating entire generations of gender outlaws and queers. Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger offers fans new angles from which to consider her achievements, as well as introduces a new audience to this vibrant artist whose lively spirit is needed now more than ever.

I’ve been working closely with Kate since the Fall of 2010 filming her on tour, at home, and around NYC.  It’s time for her story to be on the big screen – we need your support to make this possible. The majority of the filming has been completed. All funds raised through Kickstarter will go towards a portion of production costs, including:

  • filming Kate on tour this summer
  • editing a rough cut of the feature

A 10-minute teaser of the film has screened to rave reviews (in London at FrinGe! and in NYC at PS1 MOMA and Dixon Place), increasing the buzz for the film. People are really excited to see the feature!

Synopsis of the film:

Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger is an intimate portrait of an artist that illuminates one of gender theory’s most influential minds. This film is not a biographical report on someone’s life, nor is it a linear story.  Rather, it is an evocative study of a human being and an exploration of form and content that reflects the complexities of Kate and her world.  Engaging with Kate’s personal and public persona, the film captures her multifaceted, sometimes contradictory, and always charming personality, which has won the hearts of people worldwide, while also alienating others.

Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger explores Kate’s artistic practice, her influences and the way she has created language, space, and permission for generations of people to live their lives outside traditional frameworks of gender, politics, and art.

Kate’s life journey as a shape shifter, gender theorist, and survivor of great depression offers provocative new ideas on the nature of art, community, and what it means to be queer and transgender.

As of 6/1/12 we reached out Kickstarter goal of $20,000! AMAZING! And, this will cover filming Kate this summer and editing a rough cut. Can’t believe the support! BUT we still need MORE to make this movie happen.

  • Hire an editor for the final cut(15k – 20k)
  • Score the film (3k-5k)
  • Color correction (6k)
  • Audio Mix (10k)
  • Promo (5k)
  • Distro (3k-5k)

If you want to be part of this important film, please support us in any way you can. NOTHING is too small.XO,
Sam

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The 50 Shades Phenomenon and My Return to Life on the Swingset

Jun 062012
 

  • Cooper & Marilyn Beckett had me back on one of my favorite podcasts, Life on the Swingset – if you missed it, listen here.
  • New reviews have been posted! KissinBlueKaren wrote about The Ultimate Guide to Kink and All Sex Reviews posted about Rough Sex.

 

 

 

 

June 8: Susie Bright & Aretha Bright: Mother/Daughter Sex Advice

Jun 052012
 


My guests on Sex Out Loud on Friday, June 8 at 5:00 pm Pacific time/8:00 pm Eastern time on the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network are Susie Bright and her daughter Aretha Bright. We’ll talk about Susie’s memoir, Big Sex, Little Death, what it was like growing up with a sexpert Mom, how to talk to your kids about sex, and their new book, Mother/Daughter Sex Advice. Plus, I’ll put them to the test when I ask them to answer questions from listeners.

Susie Bright is the author more than a dozen books, including Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression, How to Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing, and Publishing Erotica, and Mommy’s Little Girl: On Sex, Motherhood, Porn, & Cherry Pie. She is the editor of more than 25 anthologies, including The Best American Erotica series and the Herotica series.  Her memoir, Big Sex Little Death was recently released in paperback. She is the host and producer of Audible’s weekly podcast, In Bed With Susie Bright. Bright was co-founder and editor of On Our Backs magazine, and the first journalist to cover erotic cinema and the porn business in the mainstream press. A progenitor of the sex-positive movement, Bright taught the first university course on pornography, and brought lasting sexual influence to her role in films like Bound and The Celluloid Closet, as well as playing herself, “the feminist sex writer,” on Six Feet Under. She co-authored her latest book, Mother/Daughter Sex Advice, with her daughter Aretha Bright.

Aretha Bright’s debut book is Mother/Daughter Sex Advice. She is 21 and lives in San Francisco. She can’t boast the same credentials as her mom yet (She’s ready to fly down to Hollywood at a moment’s notice!) but is busy as a new author, pysch graduate from San Francisco State University, and working gal. Aretha is interested in travel, sex, books, holidays, and pizza, among other things. You can follow Aretha on her blog.

U.S. Debut of The Feminist Porn Show in Portland, Oregon

May 252012
 


June 5, doors 7:00 pm, pre-show 7:30 pm, show 8:00 pm
She Bop Presents The Feminist Porn Show with Tristan Taormino
“The Feminist Porn Show” is a special evening curated and hosted by Tristan Taormino to showcase feminist porn, a genre of adult film and a growing movement. Tristan will introduce the audience to the concept of feminist porn and discuss its history, then she’ll screen a curated selection of short clips from filmmakers around the world. The clip show features the work of both pioneers and newcomers, including Fatale Video, Candida Royalle, Annie Sprinkle, Nina Hartley, Jackie Strano and Shar Rednour, Petra Joy, Erika Lust, Shine Louise Houston, Anna Brownfield, Carlos Batts, N. Maxwell Lander, Emilie Jouvet, Louise Lush, Jaiya, Maria Beatty, Buck Angel, Madison Young, Nenna, Courtney Trouble, Morty Diamond, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Kelly Shibari, Loree Erickson and more. The screening will be followed by a facilitated discussion, where we’ll explore some of the current issues surrounding feminist porn. The pre-show will include a sexy performance from Felice Shays. Afterward, She Bop will be selling DVDs from the featured filmmakers, including Tristan’s films, and she will stick around to sign books and videos. And the party can continue at the adjoining Bar Bar! This event is general admission, so get there early for a good seat. Tickets are available in person at She Bop and Mississippi Studios, where there will be a $1 box office fee. If you buy tickets online, there is a $4.40 service charge.
Location: This special event is presented by She Bop, but will not be held at the store, it will be held at Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi, Portland OR 97227
Admission: $25, buy tickets at She Bop (909 N. Beech Street, Portland, OR 97227), at Mississippi Studios (3939 N. Mississippi, Portland OR 97227, $1 box office fee), or online via Ticket Biscuit ($4.40 service charge)
Info: info at sheboptheshop.com and 503-473-8018, Twitter: @SheBopTheShop

ALSO: TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FOR TRISTAN’S OPEN RELATIONSHIP WORKSHOP ON JUNE 3:

June 3, 7:30 pm
She Bop Presents: Making Open Relationships Work
Do open relationships really work? How do people create nontraditional partnerships that are loving and lasting? Tristan Taormino, relationship expert and author of Opening Up, shares some of the key principles that can help your open relationship(s) succeed. She’ll discuss common issues and problems-from “new relationship energy” and time management to jealousy and agreement violations -and ways to address and resolve them. Tristan will offer tips on communication, negotiation, and boundary setting, as well as how to cope with change. Learn how to get to the root of jealous feelings and transform them by embracing the concept of compersion. Whether you’re a newcomer or veteran to the world beyond monogamy, come discover strategies to help you nurture and grow your open relationship(s).
Location: This workshop is presented by She Bop, but will not be held at the store, it will be held at the Q Center, which is 3 blocks up the street from She Bop at the corner of Mississippi and Mason (4115 N. Mississippi).
Admission: $25, buy tickets at the store (909 N. Beech Street, Portland, OR 97227), by phone 503-473-8018 or online
Info: info at sheboptheshop.com and 503-473-8018, Twitter: @SheBopTheShop

The Ultimate Kink Bible and Sex Advice in Astrology Charts

May 232012
 

 

  • Astrologist Eric Francis of Planet Waves wrote a post called “Beyond Astrology” that includes a recommendation of my work as a sex educator. Thanks, Eric!
  • IWAdult Reviews writes up The Ultimate Guide to Kink for their toybox reviews, saying it “will become your bible when it comes to sex.” Thanks for the recommendation and I do think the book would look great in every bedside drawer….
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Submit to Leather Ever After

May 232012
 

 

Sassafras Lowery is editing a new anthology called ‘Leather Ever After’ which is a BDSM retelling of classic fairy tales and she wants your writing. The call for submissions below and it can also be found online here.

Call For Submissions:
Leather Ever After
BDSM retellings of classic fairy tales

Editor: Sassafras Lowrey
Publisher: Ravenous Romance
Deadline: August 1, 2012
Payment: $25 plus a copy of the anthology
Story Length: 2,500 – 5,000 words

Once upon a time, in a dungeon far, far away, you were summoned to join the quest for the hottest and kinkiest retellings of your favorite fairy tales. I’m seeking hot, well-written stories about bondage, power play, sadism and masochism. Think dragon fire-play,  princesses in bondage,  evil step mothers, and happy endings too good to be true. Give me fantasy, or show me the magic all around us, when Prince Charming wins the leather contest with the help of his fairy drag-mother,  Rapunzel is entangled in hair suspension and the little mermaid edgeplays with knives. I’m looking for a strong literary voice and characters with a a diversity of race, sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.  All characters must be over 18.   It’s time to write a new ending to your favorite bedtime story.

Submission Guidelines: Email submissions in Times New Roman 12 point black font Word document (.doc) with pages numbered of 2,500-5,000 words to LeatherEverAfter@gmail.com . Please include your legal name (and pseudonym if applicable), short 50 word or less bio in the third person, mailing address, email, and title of the piece as part of your document.

About the editor: Sassafras Lowrey is an international award winning queer author and artist who came into a gutterpunk leather community a decade ago. Sassafras is the editor of the two time American Library Association honored and Lambda Literary Award Finalist Kicked Out. Sassafras’ first novel, Roving Pack, will be released autumn 2012, an excerpt of which earned hir an Honorable Mention in the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund for Fiction. Ze tours to colleges,and community organizations across the country facilitating workshops that support LGBTQ and Leather people in telling their stories. Sassafras lives in Brooklyn, New York with hir Daddy, two dogs, and two kitties. You can learn more about Sassafras and hir work at www.PoMoFreakshow.com

 

 

 

 

CINEKINK hits Las Vegas in June!

May 202012
 

CINEKINK: LAS VEGAS – June 7-9, 2012


CineKink -– “the kinky film festival” — kicks off its annual tour in Las Vegas, June 7-9, 2012. With screenings at the city’s arts-district cinema, Theatre7 (1406 South Third Street), CineKink: Las Vegas will offer a specially-curated program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide and exciting world of sexual diversity, with works ranging from documentary to drama, comedy to experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit – and everything in between.

This year’s line-up features:

Thursday, June 7 – 7:00 PM
CABARET DESIRE
CineKink Audience Choice Award – Best Narrative Feature/Tie
Set against a sumptuous Barcelona backdrop, at a bohemian gathering where readings, dance and music create a sensual vibe, CABARET DESIRE weaves together four erotic tales of intimacy, love, passion and sex.
Directed by Erika Lust, 2011, Spain, 74 minutes.

Friday, June 8 – 7:00 PM
STAGE BROTHER
CineKink Audience Choice Award – Best Documentary Feature
Jennifer Buonagurio has a dream…she wants to make it in the world of adult entertainment. With her brother, Richard, acting as manager, the New Jersey siblings pack into a mini-van and head
cross-country to the mecca of porn: Los Angeles. Directed by Richard Buonagurio, 2011, USA, 86 minutes.

Friday, June 8 – 9:00 PM
SWEET PRUDENCE AND THE EROTIC ADVENTURE OF BIGFOOT
CineKink Audience Choice Award – Best Narrative Feature/Tie
When Bigfoot is sighted near a remote nudist resort, sweet young Prudence sets off with her best friend, Veruca and her college buddy, Mike, to take the perfect photo of the mythical beast: one which will allow Prudence to finally get her long-awaited degree in cryptozoology. But how up close will they actually get?
Directed by William Burke, 2011, Canada, 90 minutes.

Friday, June 8 – 11:00 PM
SIRWIÑAKUY (LIVING TOGETHER)
In a Bolivian coffee-shop, middle-aged Luis spots Anouk, a pretty young French woman with exquisitely bad table manners. He approaches her and, without introduction, asks her to go home with him–and she, surprisingly, accepts. Once there he attempts to frame her into the woman that lies beneath her childish exterior, and the two participate in their own kinky version of a sirwiñakuy–an indigenous tradition where a man brings home a trial “wife.”
Directed by Amy Hesketh, 2010, Bolivia, 111 minutes.

Saturday, June 9 – 3:00 PM
KINK & KINSHIP (shorts program)
A collection of works that celebrate and explore the special sense of community our kinks tend to engender. Program includes:
Lenny Waller Memorial
The Transexual Dominatrix
So Pomo
Sisterhood of the Sash: International Ms Leather at 25
High: A Black Party Symphony

Saturday, June 9 –5:00 PM
KINK & LAS VEGAS (panel discussion)
(Free event, RSVP suggested)
Saturday, June 9 – 7:00 PM
BEST OF CINEKINK/2012 (shorts program)
A special screening of award-winning shorts deemed the year’s best from CineKink, “the kinky film festival!”
The Transexual Dominatrix
Baldguy (Skallamann)
Pedal to Pleasure
What Makes Us Queer
Smut Capital of America
Craigslist Dating
Tooshie Smooshie
A Day in the Country

LOCATION
theatre7
1406 South 3rd Street
Las Vegas, NYC 89104

TICKETS AND PASSES
Ticket prices for each regular screening are $10 door/$8 advance. Admission to the panel discussion is free, with RSVP suggested.
A great value for a weekend of non-stop, kinky entertainment, a CineKink: Las Vegas All-Access Pass, covering admission to all six regular screening programs and the panel discussion, is available in advance for $40; $30 for students/seniors; $25 for CineKinksters & Friends w/Benefits

SPONSORS
National tour sponsors of CineKink: 2012 include Crystal Delights, KinkyMedical.net, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and njoy

For tickets and more information, please visit http://www.cinekink.com

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