Still humming and throbbing after Femmes Go Dirty South
Sunday night I had the crazy pleasure of reading with a rock star line up of fierce, femme, dirty word slingers at The Center for Sex and Culture. I got to see and hear guest star, Alysia Angel- who came directly from the South, whose characters are so well drawn and powerful they are still wandering around in my heaYou can see her in person and hear her get bawdy tonight at Bawdy Story Tellers with a hot line up- including Mollena Williams for a night of stories in the hot theme of Whose Your Daddy!
The other rock stars included widely anthologized local writer and writing workshop facilitator, Jen Cross who was also an amazing MC in sexy black heels and glitter. Virgie Tovar read a blazing hot, intimate and funny piece that had the audience whopping, laughing and whistling throughout. We also got to hear local Blogger, Organizer and hot story teller Blyth Barnow read two pieces- one of them on class that was challenging and brave. The amazing Daphne Gottlieb, winner of The Firecracker and Audre Lourde awards read a piece that left my church pew swearing and knocked on our asses.We got to hear a rich lyrical story with little bits of music from Nomy Lamm who will be performing on May 11 at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Tori Adams made us sweat a little with her hot number and left us wanting more. Allison Stilly entertained us with a piece that made us think and laugh. The fabulous Carol Queen graced us with a delicious hot story too.
I found out I was up first and in between the terror and flipping through the words I would read I was watching the performers arrive and then the audience. It was a packed house, full of hot, enthusiastic and receptive queer folks. It was wonderful to see how people were decked out in finery, particularly the femmes, performers and audience alike. It was a room full of color and this wild energy I wish I could plug into every night.
PERVERTS PUT OUT!
The Maypolar Disorder Edition
A springtime celebration of the rising sap, featuring brilliant performances by Greta Christina, Midori, T. R. Moss, Thomas Roche, Sam Sax, Lori Selke, horehound stillpoint, and Mollena Williams, co-hosted by Carol Queen and Simon Sheppard.We can guarantee it’ll be good, dirty, vernal, venereal fun!
Saturday, May 12, 7:30 pm
The Center for Sex and Culture
1349 Mission Street, San Francisco
$10 - 20
This is going to be a good time. I’m excited to hear Mollena read, along with all of the other smart talent.
Don’t forget! The Center for Sex and Culture is proud to announce the first annual Library Spring Smut Sale— Saturday April 28th 10 am - 5 pm. !
Over the last year the CSC Library has grown and developed — books have busted out of the boxes that had, for too long, been holding them captive, filling our beautiful new shelving— more books and rare materials than we could ever have space for— we must sell!What better way to spend your tax refund than on some deliciously erotic printed materials? We will be selling, rare and not so rare erotic fiction, non-fiction, poetry, magazines and periodicals. We also have much non-erotic, but still obscure items that must go. All proceeds will directly benefit the Center for Sex and Culture and the continued growth of our community library.At the Center for Sex and Culture membership has its privileges— as a member you are invited to preview the sale items on April 27th at 8PM and you are admitted into the sale first on the 28th. For more information about the library or the Spring Smut Sale contact Library Vixen at library@sexandculture.org.
Abby Ehmann Photo by Alexander Colby
On Monday, April 30, Center for Sex & Culture, in conjunction with EditrixAbby, will present “Sex & Absurdity,” an evening of scandalous entertainment in a variety show format.
Featuring: Miss Roach, The MegaFlame Duo, DJ Ace “Reality Check TV” and more! Beverages will be available so the audience can rub elbows with the performers. More acts added up to the night of!
Doors at 8pm
CS&C 1349 Mission St.
$5 cover to benefit both CS&C and your performers!
Free tickets to Red Hots Burlesque: SF’s only weekly BurlyQ El Rio 3158 Mission 7:30 Sharp. New and different show every Wednesday and Friday.
Miss Roach
Is an aspiring slut who’s cis and single (wink - hello boys!)
When she’s not playing in the backyards of the Bay Area at the weekly event Jerk Church , she’s on the road looking for adventure updating her photohunt blog . Whether she’s playing accordion, ukulele or your heartstrings — she hopes you’re entertained!
The MegaFlame Duo
Angela LaFlamme and Meghan Rutigliano have been performing together in the Bay Area for three years. Deeply influenced by the sights, sounds, and feeling of the 1920s, MegaFlame performances involve old timey music from the Golden Age, vintage-style burlesque, schtick, and plenty of costume changes! MegaFlame is a step back in time with a modern twist.
Angela and Meghan are excited to perform in “Sex and Absurdity” and debut new material for a new audience!
DJ Ace
DJ Ace is best known as the co-host/producer of the long-running, Award-winning underground TV program Reality Check TV, which has over 500 episodes to its credit. The show documents Hard/Heavy Music, Pop Culture, Entertainment, and Art in a video magazine format, filtered through the sensibilities of its four host/interviewers. Ace is also a reknowned club DJ, with a quarter-century of experience spinning records in clubs and venues from NYC to San Francisco. He also dabbles as an MC at Events large and small, including the Haight Ashbury Street Fair, which attracts upwards of 100k people to its annual festivities.
Fudgie Frottage
The Man with “The Biggest Balls in Show Business.” Fudgie was discovered quite accidentally by Versace in 1996 while felching Donatella in a K-Hole, afterhours in his Miami showroom. Heavily influenced by the late 60’s (free love) and early 70’s (free drugs) Fudgie dreams of bringing the Fudgie Frottage Revue to Vegas with the help of his brilliant manager, Lu Read.
Dr. Notorious & Princess Cream Pie
Dr. Notorious has been singing and songwriting for more than 20 years. Up until recently, his performances were largely confined to living rooms. In 2009 he started to move into the public arena, sitting in with friends’ bands and playing the occasional public cameo performance. In 2011, Dr. Notorious took it up a notch. His solo debut was January 8, 2011 at the Bazaar Cafe in San Francisco. He’s since performed at the Trickster Arts Salon at Mission Control, recurring gigs at the Bazaar Cafe, at Center Camp Cafe Stage at Burning Man, at SF Decompression and more.
Princess Cream Pie delights audiences throughout the Bay Area with charming song parodies about Cleveland Steamers and South Korean gonorrhea, and usually has candy stowed up her skirt. She is most at home in burlesque and Vaudeville venues, although she does encourage parents to book her for children’s birthdays. The princess is always happy to explain the baffling process of puberty to tender young minds.
Tizzy Wall
Tizzy Wall is a pro-domme, sex blogger, theatre rat, and otherwise irreverent lady of all trades. She strives to help create a sex and body positive world, preach radical compassion and speak her mind without fear. When she isn’t delightfully flogging someone, or writing for the Playpen Report, she spends her time playing the ukulele, cuddling her drooling cat, or falling down the blackhole of the internet.
Red Hots Burlesque Star Laika Fox
A sexy soviet space cadet with a heart of platinum, Laika Fox has been charming hearts and minds around the Bay Area to the moon and back for over two years. Laika has a penchant for the strange, absurd, and hilarious flavors of Burlesque and isn’t afraid to fly her nerd flag high!
Austintatious
Austin hails from the South, and a long lineage of storytellers. Austin is an adrenaline junky in every way and has been fervently collecting experiences since she was able to sneak out of her parent’s house. She has an irreverent sense of humor and a loud mouth, but still packs a southern charm. She may be the South’s black sheep, but she still has a pair of high heels next to her steel toed boots and can set a proper table that would make Emily Post proud. Austin is a writer, tour guide, EMT and a carpenter/rigger/welder for large art sculpture. She’s a Jill of all trades who seriously needs a job.
EditrixAbby
Your hostess and emcee, EditrixAbby is a blogger, barmaid, storyteller and experience junkie. She has been published in dozens of porn magazines and web sites, produced weekly fetish events for over seven years, given away loads of free porn and generally made her mark in naughty nightlife from Manhattan to the Bay Area. For more of her brand of insanity, visit www.wordpress.editrixabby.com
Center for Sex and Culture: An Evening with Hanne Blank- Saturday, April 21, 8PM
Since 2000, Hanne Blank has spent her time working, writing, and helping people think and thrive at the intersection of bodies, sex, and culture. Join her for a rare, one-night-only Bay Area evening of whip-smart, dead sexy spoken word spanning the smutty, the intellectual, the historical, and…
Leap Year Sex Shindig! Center For Sex And Culture Tonight 7:30
$10-one zillion dollars sliding scale
Come celebrate this rare leap day with unusually awesome performance, and help CSC get on top of its bills so we’re all set to bring you a whole new year of fabulous sexology, smut, art and culture, and education. Pass the word! Bring your friends! And bring some dough, because there will be a silent auction AND a chance to win a high-end OhMiBod vibe!
For your entertainment: Simon Sheppard, Jen Cross, Carol Queen, Lynn Sunday, Amber DiPietra, AND Amy Marsh: “Dr. Hypno’s School of Burlesque!” Volunteers from the audience, hypnotized, will be instructed in the fine art of burlesque.
I hear Midori will be there too. I know I’ll be there. What about you?
Bleeding Hearts…a celebration of dysfunctional love.
Bleeding Hearts…a celebration of dysfunctional love. A spoken word event
Anatomy of Pleasure with the Doctors SF 8/28
Anatomy of Pleasure with the Doctors
Sunday, 8/28, 1-5 pm
At CSC, 1349 Mission
Sliding scale $5-$60
Members half-price! (Can you become a member at the door? Why, yes!)
Want to know more about the senses? Who doesn’t? Find new combinations to make you and yours hotter. Join us for a thoroughly eye (and flesh) opening tour of the body with way more area covered than just that enticing spot between your legs. Learn how nearly any sense can be a source of erotic inspiration! This is especially relevant for us kinky sorts who already think of the entire body as their canvas.
Dr. Robert Lawrence has been lecturing about human anatomy and sexuality since 1980, and his knowledge has provided a proven, fact-based foundation for other writers and instructors in the fetish and SM community to build upon. Have you ever been told to take an aspirin or an antihistamine prior to being spanked? Dr. Lawrence first made the suggestion in 1980 (he still has his SFSI SM lecture notes). Have you ever heard of humans being shaped inside like a donut? How about proprioception and bondage? How many senses can you describe and play with individually? He can demonstrate at least 15 specific senses and can break them into more than 20 depending on how you split (or stroke) the hair. No matter your level of familiarity and comfort with the topic, this lecture is a must-experience for anyone committed to developing their sensual and sexual responsiveness. Demonstrations of reflex, dermatomes, sensory specificity and adaption will show you what you have been missing!
