"Who wants to get fucked by a robot?"

I'm in SF this weekend going to Arse Electronica. If you're interested in the intersection of art, technology and sex you should definitely drop by the conference.

Last night was the first event and it was really amazing. Even though it was rather disorganized, with lots of improvisation and not so hot scheduling, there were two great performances. The Electronic Orifice Orchestra demonstrated their kegel instruments, which are inserted into orifices and played by varying pressure on your kegel muscles. Their costumes were awesome.

Definitely the highlight of the evening, though, was the Kink.com demo of Fucking Machines...

I'm so excited about Arse Electronica, which I'm going to tomorrow, driving up to sf. But, I had a long day, so I'll just give you a link to read more...

http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/

I'll be passing out "coming soon" flyers for SharingIsSexy.org, read more here...

rebel clowns at the SPP protest in canada!

http://photos.cmaq.net/v/montebello-a20/IMG_1871.jpg.html

more photos including a hilarious and awesome queer bloc here:

http://photos.cmaq.net/v/montebello-a20/

updates on the spp here:

http://ottawa.indymedia.org/

Ok, I'm here. I arrived safe and sound in Saas-Fee at EGS. I have a mild headache and generally feel awful from the jetlag. Last year I took these herbal "no jetlag!" pills and I thought they were silly, but now I realize that they're not. I felt so much better then. The flight left nyc at 5pm and arrived in Zurich at 9am. Some people managed to sleep, and I should've, since I woke up at 7am to get to the airport by 9:30 for my flight from miami, but no, I couldn't sleep. On the train and the bus from Zurich to Saas-Fee I slept a little bit, and then took a nap as soon as I arrived, so I'm totally out of whack!

To rewind a bit, I told my father the day before I flew out that I am genderqueer and transgender. I was so nervous, terrified even. I had no idea how he would react, with anger, violently, yelling, I couldn't imagine. He's a strict catholic with a Jesus bumper sticker and a cross on his dashboard, as many colombian people are...

technorati tags: queer, genderqueer, transgender, zurich, egs, saasfee

I'm off to the European Graduate School for another summer and am stopping in Miami on my way, so I can visit my family and some old friends.

It's hot and humid here. It rained a bit this afternoon, like it does every afternoon in Miami. There's a canal behind my brother's apartment where I'm staying and whne it rained it had that amazing look that water in miami gets that i love so much, its rushing and the surface is dark grey, reflecting the clouds overhead. I don't know why I like that so much, but if you ever saw my old homepage, hyperpoem, you might remember the photo of the water from there.

Anyway, if you're in miami and are reading this, drop me an email or an IM, I'm only in town for a few days and I don't have my cell, so its hard to get a hold of folks.

This is the first time I've been home since I've been "out" as a transgender person, since I haven't been home in about two years. So, while I'm here I get to do the fun job of telling my whole family about my new self and my new name...

technorati tags: queer, genderqueer, transgender, miami, egs

the info below sent by a UK comradista, with much experience. please send your own What's Hot/Not!
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What's hot and not - G8 2007 Heiligendamm

WHAT’S HOT

Wandergesellen
An itinerant crafts people with a tradition dating back to the 12th century. Not only do they sport shapely, arse-hugging, double zipper cords and sexy Han Solo waistcoats, they also created the most incredible camp at Reddelich. We were all feeling the spacious showers, the capacious bar and the bodacious children's playground.

As a cultural phenomena they have gone from geek to chic in an astonishingly short space of time...

Are you Homo-k9-ophobic? Ask yourself. See for yourself.

technorati tags: queer, furry, dog, hawaii, video

From my friend and co-host, onto the ontologist and Regeneración Childcare NYC, http://www.childcarenyc.org/

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Dear friends,

As you know, I have been doing childcare with Regeneración Childcare NYC
for over a year. It has been really exciting to be a part of building an
intergenerational movement with moms, kids, providers, young people and
volunteers from all different walks of life.

Over the past year, we've helped to coordinate several gatherings of
moms and kids from around the city. One request from all the moms is
that they would love to meet parents and people from around the US that

this is the text that i read for a workshop i did at feminist/queer event. the ideas could use some expanding, but i wanted to share it...

June 1969, New York City, at the Stonewall Inn, one of many regular raids on gay bars, which often involved humiliation, arrests, and physical assaults on queer, and transgender people at those bars. But this particular night, people fought back, throwing bottles, setting the bar on fire once the police had retreated into it-- the people to be arrested were the employees, and those without identification, and those who were considered to be wearing clothes of the “opposite” gender. “They continued to fight the police who had been called there to disperse them. They threw rocks and bottles and shouted “gay power”. These were the Stonewall Riots, which are now often celebrated among the LGBTQ community as a major turning point in history.

You could say that back then, the police acted as a sort of gender border patrol, targeting people who crossed the line in terms of “correct” gender. Today the cops don’t act that way in an official sense, but certainly queer people and transgender people, as well as women who don’t act “properly” (i.e. prostitutes) often are subject to police harassment, assault, and beyond. And police still enforce laws that have to do with gender borders, such as using the “correct” bathroom.

Before I move on, what do I mean by gender borders?
By gender borders, I refer to the line that’s drawn between female & male, woman & man.
The line that causes doctors to feel an obligation to use surgery on a non-consenting intersex baby to make it conform to the sex on one side of the border or the other.
The line that means you don’t put a baby boy in a pink outfit or give a young girl a beebee gun or a toy truck and such examples.
But also the line that means women should be put in their place- and stay there. If she rejects her submissive role, she’s called a bitch.
The line that makes it so there are certain things that if a guy does, he’s subject to be called “fag” or “pussy”.
And obviously the line that determines who you’re supposed to be attracted to (the “opposite sex”), who you’re supposed to identify with, what pronouns you should use, etc.
If you cross that line- or border- you’re breaking these known rules (ridiculous as they are) and therefore you could be considered a “gender outlaw” a term Kate Bornstein has used.

My new podcast is here! This show will (usually) be co-hosted with onto the ontologist and we plan to talk about things we love and play great music. It'll be a big mashup of hiphop, queer music, electropop, ska, cyberpunk, anarchism, autonomous politics, queer politics, abstract hacktivism, radical cartography, complexity theory, craftivism, anti-corporate-trans-globalization, anti-racism, pro-migration-no-borders, and lots of other phrases with dashes like post-post-post!

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check it out and give us a comment on what you think!