Conversio Virium

KinkForAll New York City 2

A few of you have probably heard about KinkForAll, which is an event I’ve been doing some work on. The second NYC event is coming up on the 8^th of August, and I would love to see folks involved and/or attending, if you’re interested! The details follow.

KinkForAll is an ad-hoc informational unconference on sexuality for anyone and everyone. KinkForAll draws participants from an astounding range of sexuality-related communities. Anyone with the desire to learn or with something to contribute is welcome and invited to participate.

Vitals
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What: The second no-limits sex-positive gender and sexuality unconference of New York City.
Why: To inspire a creative, interactive and open environment where everyone feels comfortable talking, learning, and being inspired by all kinds of sexuality.
When: August 8^th, 2009
Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13^th Street, New York.
Who: Everyone
How much: FREE (as in beer as well as freedom)

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KinkForAll is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people of the kink, queer, sex-positive and related communities to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, presentations, and interaction from all participants.  (It is inspired by the BarCamp community.)

ANYONE WITH SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE OR WITH THE DESIRE TO LEARN IS WELCOME AND INVITED TO JOIN.  When you attend, be prepared to share with others. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.

A KinkForAll is a special kind of gathering because there are no spectators, only participants. Attendees must give a talk or a presentation, help with one, or otherwise volunteer/contribute in some way to support the event. This is called sharing and we like it. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen—there are no pre-scheduled presentations or keynote   addresses. The people present at the event will select the presentations they want to see.

Anyone can present, on any topic related to sexuality. You do not necessarily have to teach a new skill or idea. You might share an experience, review a product, or read a poem. The goal is to start a discussion, make connections, and exchange knowledge. Presentations promoting specific commercial products or companies are discouraged.

Learn more about what to expect at http://kinkforall.pbwiki.com/WhatToExpect

Learn more about the event guidelines at

Get Involved
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We need your help in spreading the word. Please help by participating. Here’s how:

1. Get excited by reading the ideas on
http://kinkforall.pbwiki.com/KinkForAllNewYorkCity2
2. Add your name or handle to the list of participants
3. Join the mailing list and introduce yourself by emailing
kinkforall@googlegroups.com

Still have questions? Read the Frequently Asked Questions at
http://kinkforall.pbwiki.com/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

or email kinkforall@googlegroups.com for more details.

KinkForAll Online
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Participate online before the event at your favorite social networking web site:

Homepage: http://KinkForAll.org
Google: http://groups.google.com/group/kinkforall
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KinkForAll
Identica: http://identi.ca/kinkforall
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/KinkForAll/40066342762
Fetlife: http://fetlife.com/groups/2962

All primary organizational efforts are being coordinated via the mailing list. Join for free and help turn ideas into realities!

http://groups.google.com/group/kinkforall

(Do you know of an event that you don’t see on our calendar and want to share? Please send it in!)

Summer CV

Come join us for a delightful evening.

109 W 14th St

Summer CV Movie Night

Join us for an unusual Summer CV this Monday as we head to Bryant Park’s free movie night for a picnic and an outdoor screening of Harold and Maude, a 1971 cult classic that explores themes of youth culture, sexuality, and love still relevant today. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, you must! If you have, then come enjoy it all over again!

We’ll meet around 5 PM to stake out a spot on the lawn and have a picnic, so bring whatever food you’d like to eat yourself or share with the group. The movie itself will start at sundown (around 8 or 9 PM).

If you’re coming for the first time simply ask people, “Are you the group from CV?” and you’ll have no trouble finding us. We hope to see you, and your friends, all there!

TES: Needleplay Workshop with Sluttress

Tonight, TES is hosting Sluttress’s explanations of the ins and outs of safe needleplay for beginners:

Do you have a fear of needles? Blood? Pointy things? Or do you watch intently when you have blood drawn? This 101 class will help you to better utilize the sub-dermal insertions of needles. Learn “hands on” how to utilize various needle techniques for pain as well as pleasure. Learn how to make beautiful designs and art work like corsets, wings, flowers and more with needles and other supplies. Imaginations are encouraged.

Members $4; Non-Members $8

When:  Tue Jul 14 7:30pm – Tue Jul 14 11pm

Where: 260 W 36^th, 3^rd Floor, at TES

Instigate NYC: Stone Sexuality and Kink with Corey Alexander

This Sunday, I will be teaching a class on Stone Sex and Kink at Instigate NYC, a new Queer/Trans Led, Anti Racist, Anti Classist, Pro Pervert BDSM/Sex/Kink Infoshare.  I taught this class at The Floating World 2008, and it got some of the highest reviews by attendees.  I love teaching this class, partly because it is geared toward queer communities, and because it offers a unique take on an identity that is central for me. For more info on the class, check out the discussion on FetLife:

Stone Sex and Kink, July 19, 5PM at The Center (208 W 13^th Street):

Many queers (particularly transfolks and dykes) identify as stone, and mean many different things by it. Stone is often characterized as an absence, a loss, a wall. This interactive workshop/discussion focuses on the challenges and the pleasures of stone sexuality, while honoring the complexities that we may bring to stone identities, bodies, genders, emotions, and sexualities.

You may remember me from classes I’ve taught at CV, including: Strategies for Upping Your Mean Factor, Relationship Negotiation, Gender Play, and Your Secret Map to the World of Kink Ethics.

I love teaching at CV partly because of the openness, enthusiasm and engagement you all bring; I’d love to have your participation in this class, and hope to see you there on Sunday!

Corey

Summer CV

Join us at the Good Stuff diner for some great food and company!

Location: 109 W 14th St

Young and Kinky? Contribute and get published in this new anthology.

I’m excited to say that Matt Johnson, also known as Bad Faggot, is editing a new book whose working title is Young and Kinky. The book promises to touch on some really interesting subjects, ones that are very near and dear to my heart, including “youth leadership in kink communities” and “does young equal submissive?” Conversio Virium has a proud history of being a leading organization for college-aged individuals and has never been more important for New York City’s youngsters than it is now, so I’m sure all of us have something to say about being young and kinky.

Matt is looking for short non-fiction writing to include in the anthology. Send a 3 paragraph summary and a short contributor bio to him by July 31^st to be considered. Details of his Young and Kinky call for submissions follows:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Young and Kinky, edited by Matt Johnson aka Bad Faggot

We’re the present and future of a network of communities which are growing by leaps and bounds but which nonetheless feel marginalized and threatened. We’re either hailed as saviors of a sexual culture or framed as a problem that culture is forced to confront in order to survive. We’re often talked about in the abstract but only rarely are our individual voices setting the terms of the conversation. This book means to shift that balance.

Young and Kinky (working title) is an anthology of short nonfiction by people under age 40 who are participants in leather, BDSM, fetish, kink or related communities. This collection defines “community” as broadly as possible: from educational events to sex parties, from book clubs to social networking sites, from erotic businesses to charitable organizations.

Possible topics for inclusion:

• coming out narratives: finding communities, finding other young kinksters
• forming our own groups: TNG, boys/girls of leather
• integrating into existing groups: how to do it successfully
• bars, clubs, contests: are kink institutions still relevant?
• the generation gap: relating to our elders and our history
• youth leadership in kink communities
• where we live: physical and virtual gathering places
• what we do: is our kink different?
• naming: what do we call ourselves and why?
• why now? are there more of us than there used to be?
• is age just a number? when are we no longer “young”?
• talking across divisions of gender and sexual preference
• does young equal submissive?
• social bias (racism, sexism, ageism, biphobia, transphobia) in the scene
• out in the world: kinky at work, with family, friends, and children, in other communities

Contributions should range from 1000 to 5000 words in length. Please no fiction, porn/erotica, or poetry. This is a nonfiction volume reflecting our lived experiences as younger kinky people of all genders and orientations. Contributions from women, transfolk, and kinky folk of color are particularly encouraged.

Please submit a summary (no more than 3 paragraphs) plus a brief contributor bio no later than July 31, 2009. Initial submission of full articles should be no later than December 31, 2009. Electronic submissions strongly preferred.

Contact: “Matt Johnson” <badfaggot@hotmail.com>

PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE WIDELY

Summer CV: TES Fest 09

Come join us for food and merriment! Share your TES Fest stories!

Same time, same place, the Good Stuff Diner.

The Eulenspigel Society presents TES Fest 2009

Now that Summer is here, that means TES Fest is just around the corner. The TES Fest announcement, crossposted from various sources, follows:

The Eulenspiegel Society (TES), the oldest and largest BDSM education and support group in the United States, is proud to announce TES Fest 2009 being held over the 2009 July 4^th weekend. TES Fest 2009, a four-day kinky conference, will take place from July 2 – July 5, 2009 in Piscataway, New Jersey.

TES Fest is bringing you the best BDSM presenters from all around the country! They will present classes for every level of experience, from introductory, basic to expert, and edgy. We’re covering bondage from all angles, impact play from flogging to takedowns, and D/s from multiple perspectives. We’re offering classes from the experts on
enemas, humiliation, suspension, caning, scene history, boot-blacking, cutting, and much more.

The following presenters have been confirmed for TES Fest 2009: Award winning author of “The Latina Kama Sutra, Dr. Charlie Ferrer; 2007 International Master and slave pair, Master Larry and slave barb; Kink.com’s Lochai; 2008 Pantheon of Leather Northeast Regional Award winner, Lady Sabrina and Leather Leadership Conference Emeritus Board Member, Lolita Wolf to name a few Presenter bios can be found online.

Classes will include “Sexually Transmitted Infections” with Dr. Dan, “Transition from BDSM to Master/slave” with Master Taino, “Advanced Electrical Play” with Uncle Abdul, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Hurt Me: Playing with a Vanilla Partner” with Coraline, “In Service: Satisfaction From a Job Well Done” with Angel and Sebastian and so
much more. View the complete class listing on the TES Fest web site.

TES Fest 2009 will be full of the same fun as last year. There will be outdoor play, indoor pool parties, meet and greets, author signings, a bloggers round table, play parties, casino night, extensive vendors section, of course an amazing indoor and outdoor dungeon space designed by Frazier and the Crucible Crew and so much more. We will have an expanded Cloud Nine, our relaxation and massage salon. We will be fund raising for National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) all weekend with 2 slave auctions and prime Cloud Nine spots.

We are also proud to announce that the Leather Archives and Museum Road Show, its traveling exhibit, will bring the rich fetish history available at the LA&M out of Chicago to TES Fest 2009! Included in the exhibit will be items of importance to the history of TES.

Buy your tickets and register at TESFest.org.