a play and a panel November 27, 2009

Queer tip of the week: go see My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding. Only in Canada, I tell ya, would you have a musical production made based on a true lesbian love story set on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa during the ice sculpture festival, with the two main characters being a Jewish psychology professor [...]

solitude November 21, 2009

Classic wisdom dictates that introverts and extroverts are diametrically opposed. Introverts are inward-focused, not terribly social, quiet and thinky and uncommunicative. Extroverts are loud and friendly and sociable, given to action rather than thought, and more than happy to express themselves. As Wikipedia tells me, “Extroversion and introversion are generally understood as a single continuum. [...]

keeping it light November 20, 2009

Okay, it’s late, I’m tired, and I’m having a minor moment of celebrity-related amusement. So this will be my grand blog post of the night. Your turn to vote! Which one do you like better as a celebrity pseudo-representation of butch-femme D/s: Oprah and Ellen with some Christmas-light bondage, or classic kd and Cindy Crawford [...]

on not being naughty November 18, 2009

I got an e-mail from a reader recently who said of this blog, “I love that you dare to express your naughty side.” The reader was super sweet, and the e-mail was clearly written with kind intentions. But for some reason it left a funny taste in my mouth.
Lemme unpack this for a minute. I [...]

venn diagrams of likelihood, or, the question of gender in play space November 6, 2009

Thanks for the questions! I wasn’t online when they came in, so that means I didn’t approve the comments immediately, which means you didn’t see them, which means that you posted additional ones, so now I’ve actually got three questions to answer and not one. Which really isn’t a bad thing! Three days’ worth of [...]