DISCOVER YOUR SEXUAL ABILITY AT FEMINA POTENS
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 27 & 28, 2010 - Femina Potens proudly presents SIZZLE, the monthly Bay Area award winning literary erotica series. SIZZLE heats up the Castro every other month, merging internationally acclaimed queer and erotic authors with the Bay Area's top emerging local writers, spoken word artists and performers. SIZZLES' open mic performances regularly reveal the bravest, hottest, most eclectic performers that the Bay Area has to offer.
Join us this February as we welcome Essin Em, Rita Seagrave, and Patrick Califia to Femina Potens. On Saturday, February 27 at 8pm they will share thier wise words and secrets on sexuality concerning people who are differently able, and their partners. We will be putting these ideas into motion all weekend during our Sizzling Workshops, featuring expertise on flogging, partner negotiations and lap-dances, oh-my! Come see what kind of passion can be created when Sexuality and Disability Intersect.
BDSM 101 Workshop w/ Essin Em- Saturday 2pm ($5-10) Ever wonder what all those letters stood for? Now is how you can find out! Learn about the basics, the difference between a whip, a flogger and a paddle, and what it means to be 24-7. Looking to join the local scene, or just to add some spice into the bed room, this is a great overview for anyone. Perfect for the beginner or someone fairly novice to the scene (not for anyone advanced). Buy Tickets for BDSM 101 Workshop
Sexability Workshop w/ Essin Em- Saturday 4pm ($5-10) This is part class, part support group, geared towards people who are differently able, and their partners. This workshop is discussion based, and covers issues such as coming out to your partner(s), how to discuss ability levels, new things to try, correct terminology, negotiating sex play (including kink/BDSM play), and much more. Participants are encouraged to share suggestions, trade ideas, etc. Great for people of all ability levels (and their partners) who want to recognize themselves as sexual beings. Buy Tickets for Sexability Workshop
Sizzle Readings Performance Saturday 8-10pm ($10) Our award winning literary night featuring: Essin Em, Rita Seagrave, and Patrick Califia. Writings on Sexual Ability where Sexuality & Disability Intersect. Buy Tickets for Sizzle
Lap Dancing 101 Workshop w/ Rita Seagrave Sunday 1pm ($20) This class teaches you how to give a great lapdance! The relationship between lapdancer and customer is a hot power exchange, so we'll also explore how to incorporate this unique form of "tease and denial" into your erotic D/s play. You'll feel confident using these moves to seduce a new lover or rekindle lust with a longtime partner. There will be opportunities for volunteers of all sizes, genders, and sexual orientations to participate and interact, no partner necessary. Buy Tickets for Lap Dancing 101
SIZZLE! Feb. 27 & 28, Saturday & Sunday Femina Potens Art Gallery 2199 Market St @ Sanchez
All Memebers get into Sizzle & all workshops for FREE!
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Essin Em is a sassy, fun loving, crowd pleasing, witty and amusing sex educator based in Phoenix, Arizona. From academic and corporate lectures/trainings to fun-filled classes on kink, cunnilingus and non-monogamy, she covers the spectrum of sexuality in her work. In 2008, she completed her Master’s in Human Sexuality Education at Widener University in Pennsylvania. She also has her B.A. in Sociology from the Colorado College.
Patrick Califia is a queer social critic of long standing. Prior to transitioning, his erotic lesbian S/M fiction was at ground zero in the feminist sex wars. He published one of the first lesbian sex manuals, Sapphistry, and Macho Sluts, one of the first collections of lesbian porn. out in a new, anniversary edition from Arsenal Pulp Press. His collected essays are in two volumes (so far), Public Sex and Speaking Sex to Power. He also wrote Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism. The rights (or not) of disabled people are close to his heart. He lives with a chronic, painful auto-immune disease. It can be discouraging to try to get people who are outsiders because of their sex or gender variance to think about what they have in common with people who are invalidated because of their health status, mobility limitations, or other form of crip-ness. So he is cooking up something especially exciting for this evening!
Rita Seagrave is a writer, artist, and adult industrialist. She has worked as an x-rated film actress, stripper, sex advisor, adult toy salesgirl, and deaf dominatrix. Born in New Jersey, raised in San Francisco, and educated in Massachusetts, she found her true home in Columbus, Ohio. Rita travels around the country speaking to audiences large and small about lapdancing, gangbangs, and kinky sex. It’s educational, but also entertaining. Need sex advice? Rita writes a monthly column in Girls Gone Wild Magazine, answering real questions from real people about sex and dating. ______________________________________________________________________ Femina Potens is a nationally recognized art gallery and performance space dedicated to the advancement of women and transgendered artists since 2001.
Sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center with support from California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, the Zellerbach Foundation and Grants for the Arts, GoldenRope Level Donors - James Mogul, Catherine Murty and Nancy Peach.
Femina Potens is a leading queer organization in San Francisco, and has been featured on the LOGO channel, Q-Television, Bitch, Bust, Spread, Brian Alexander's book "America Unzipped", the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the San Francisco Chronicle where Violet Blue called Femina Potens, "the most happening art space in the city; a revolution in art and sex |
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