 Sunday was the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health’s (CSPH) Body Positive Clothing Swap. I was there with my my Pleasure Pie merch table, chatting with some awesome sex positive advocates and regularly ditching my table to dig through the massive amounts of clothing.
While I was there, I donated a copy of Choose Your Own Consensual Adventure to the CSPH’s extensive sex positive library (flip through it if you’re ever in the Pawtucket area!) and checked out the other zines. There were some awesome sex positive zines that I had never heard of! Here’s a quick review of 4 of my favorites.  I just finished writing a newsletter to compile all the sex positive stuff happening in the Boston area. I’m hoping that the more people know about what others are doing to make the world a more sex positive place, the more we can all work together and inspire each other.
Smutty consent performance9/21/2014  Onstage at the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health’s (CSPH) 3rd annual Smut Night in Providence, RI. I know I’ve written a lot of posts that include the phrase “first ever” and its starting to sound gimmicky. But lately Pleasure Pie has given me a lot of opportunities to try things for the first time. About a week ago, I did my first ever performance!
1. Give them information on their risk reduction options.
For pregnancy, they could:
You want to show your support and say the right thing, but sometimes it’s hard to know what will help and what will be triggering.
Here are six ideas for the right things to say from a survivor who has had dozens of these conversations. I love writing email newsletters!9/12/2014 So I made one for Pleasure Pie!
Here’s the first issue. And you can subscribe here! Do it. I promise I won’t blow up your inbox. New sex positive stickers!9/11/2014 I found a sticker maker (the orange X-shaped thing) on the side of the road a few years ago. The other day I was thinking about how cool it would be to make stickers for Pleasure Pie, so I fiddled with it for a while and finally figured out how it works! I have a feeling this is the beginning of something beautiful.    Zine Fest photos!9/10/2014 Launch Party fun!9/7/2014  Last night was the much-awaited Pleasure Pie Launch Party! Honestly, I was pretty nervous about the event. It didn’t occur to me until a few days before the night of the party that I had never put on an event before (other than purely social holiday or birthday parties). Fortunately, my very supportive love partner and similarly supportive sister agreed to help with making copies and preparing food (respectively). Though they just agreed to help me complete these tasks, they actually ended up doing them pretty much single-handedly, while I ran around doing a million seemingly crucial things that I can’t even remember now.
But it all came together (THANK YOU Melissa and Eric!) and it was a really good time! There were so many awesome people in one room, so how could it not be great? Launch Party / Sex Letters Open Mic!8/28/2014  Come celebrate and see what Pleasure Pie is all about!
Saturday, September 6th, 2014 6:00pm - 9:00pm Democracy Center 45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Free! Pleasure Pie in the news!8/25/2014  Photo by Suzi Grossman People are writing about Pleasure Pie!
Suzi Grossman, blogger from Suzi Looks at Lots of Art writes: "With all the media control of nipples, I just had to have this whimsical endorsement of all that is the nipple by Pleasure Pie." Did you miss the zine fest? Do you live outside of Boston? No problem! The internet and snail mail exist for this exact reason. Check out the new Etsy shop to see everything that’s available!  New England Zine Fest a huge success!8/18/2014 I put everything I’ve been working on out into the world yesterday! I spent the day tabling at New England Zine Fest in Cambridge, MA.  From left to right: Postcards, half calendars, consent zines, contraceptive quizzes, Unsilence Yourself info It was an incredibly fulfilling experience! So many people loved my creations. It was really encouraging to get positive feedback. I’ve spent many hours working on all of this, and it meant so much to me that people were passionate about it.
Choose Your Own Consensual Adventure8/1/2014  A new zine is in the works! See this and more at my table at the New England Zine Fest on Saturday, August 16 from 12-6 at the Cambridge YMCA.
Update: You can now find this zine on Etsy here! |
