Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The Golden Hardcore and the Shimmering Dyke-Core - The Erotic Screen
I have a new book out, about old-school porn and the erotic video revolution. It's called: The Erotic Screen: Volume 1 — The Golden Hardcore and the Shimmering Dyke-Core The book is a "live" history of erotic cinema before the Internet— from the Golden Age of lavish 35mm hardcore, to...
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Inspired By Andrea -- Essays on Lust, Aggression, Porn, and The Female Gaze
Over the years, I've received a number of queries about my writing on the subject of Andrea Dworkin's feminist philosophies and sexual politics. I decided to collect all my Dworkin-related work into one tidy ebook, which I've titled: Inspired By Andrea: Essays on Lust, Aggression, Porn, & The Female Gaze...
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Letter from Tsuarah in Brooklyn After the Hurricane
Hi Susie, I'm safe and thank you for your love and concern. My building was not offically in the"A" zone. The "A" zone started in the middle of Water Street in front of my building on the water side. No one here would have left anyway. It was amazing to...
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New Year's Soup for a New Kinda Day
1 quart chicken broth 1 Tbsp. salt 1/4 cup Kümmel (caraway liqueur, found in any decent liquor store) 1 leek, diced— green tough part excluded 1 shallot clove, diced 3-4 cups potatoes, peeled and diced 1 1/2 cups milk Salt and pepper to taste 2 Tbsp. dill 2-3 Tbsp. butter...
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A Little Truth About Those Embarrassing "Post Feminist" Memoirs
Witness the canon going off: A tough, gorgeous, take-no-prisoners femme searches for a butch who's got the balls to top her. She rejects a million wusses on the way, all too flimsy to hold her egg sac. Here's the latest entry, a memoir by Alisa Valdes, reviewed by Noah Berlatsky...
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Tragic Denouement for Romance Victim
This is tragic: The day after I posted my Cassandra-like warning, Alisa Valdez, the author of The Feminist & the Cowboy, wrote on her blog that her lover had knocked her up, then immediately abandoned her, "took her back" after "miscarriage," beat the crap out of her multiple times, raped...
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I Have Something to Say about Aaron Swartz's Suicide and the Special Way the US Justice Dept Hounds People to Death
Twice in my career I've been asked to serve as an expert witness on the defense team of an obscenity trial, where the prosecution was spearheaded by the U.S. Justice Department. I was naive enough— both times— to think that I had a chance to further the cause of the...
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4 Things I Never Understood Before About Obama's Inauguration
1. Before today, I only had ever seen the Inauguration on TV. Maybe for five minutes before I switched channels. I am here to tell you: the live event, the whole weekend, is NOTHING like what you see on the tube. The cultural experience has far superceded the political one....
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43 Paints
I want to talk about two paintings, “Artist in the Shower” and “Artist in the Bath,” by the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. They were revealed when the former POTUS's e-mail was hacked. by Jon Bailiff The public commentary has thus far veered from breezy put-downs...
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