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Free 45 Minute Pole Dancing Lesson this weekend from 3sixty. They're at 333 Catherine (at Lyon, in the same building as a Kung Fu studio), and the open house schedule can be found here.
Smut in the Capital -- This is the sex-possitive blog of Rawknee (of Rockalily Burlesque). Just thought I'd throw it out there.
The First Montreal Burlesque Festival! :-D Which I think says it all, really. It sounds like a hootand holler! :-D
The Erotic Authors LJ comm., complete with calls for submissions. YAY! :-D
On a different (and significantly more pissed off) note, we have this:
Dora The Explorer Makeover.
Don't get me wrong. I totally get the issues about teaching little girls to pay attention to, worry about, and/or scrutinize their looks.
HOWEVER, what bugs the hell out of me about this whole hoopla - that the issue is all about Neo!Dora dressing in, well, a *dress* - is exemplified by comments like this one from Holli.
Why is it that as soon as a gal starts looking/presenting as/dressing *feminine* it's assumed that all she cares about is Attention from Boys, and that every intelligent, curious, adventurous thought flies out of her head as soon as she puts on a fucking dress?
As a woman with a philosophy-heavy degree, a heap of grad studies, a creative streak a mile wide, a tendency towards Deep Thoughts[1], and a closet full of cocktail dresses and stillettos, I find this deeply, deeply, offensive and, hm, personally insulting.
<*rages at stupid assumptions*>
<*stalks off to read Julia Serano on our cultures denegration and demonization of the feminine*>
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
[1] Not to mention a girlfriend. Heterosexist assumptions much?
Smut in the Capital -- This is the sex-possitive blog of Rawknee (of Rockalily Burlesque). Just thought I'd throw it out there.
The First Montreal Burlesque Festival! :-D Which I think says it all, really. It sounds like a hoot
The Erotic Authors LJ comm., complete with calls for submissions. YAY! :-D
On a different (and significantly more pissed off) note, we have this:
Dora The Explorer Makeover.
Don't get me wrong. I totally get the issues about teaching little girls to pay attention to, worry about, and/or scrutinize their looks.
HOWEVER, what bugs the hell out of me about this whole hoopla - that the issue is all about Neo!Dora dressing in, well, a *dress* - is exemplified by comments like this one from Holli.
Why is it that as soon as a gal starts looking/presenting as/dressing *feminine* it's assumed that all she cares about is Attention from Boys, and that every intelligent, curious, adventurous thought flies out of her head as soon as she puts on a fucking dress?
As a woman with a philosophy-heavy degree, a heap of grad studies, a creative streak a mile wide, a tendency towards Deep Thoughts[1], and a closet full of cocktail dresses and stillettos, I find this deeply, deeply, offensive and, hm, personally insulting.
<*rages at stupid assumptions*>
<*stalks off to read Julia Serano on our cultures denegration and demonization of the feminine*>
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
[1] Not to mention a girlfriend. Heterosexist assumptions much?
