Queer Fat Activism: Why Sex Positivity Matters 10/14 at NYU

[Corey Alexander]

Hi folks,

 

I have two rather different workshops I will be teaching this month. Both are on local college campuses, but are free and open to the public.

 

I will be debuting a new fat activism workshop at NYU on October 14 at the Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South) from 8:00-9:30 pm in room 908. This is free and open to the public.

 

Queer Fat Activism: Why Sex Positivity Matters
This interactive discussion-based workshop will offer a framework for thinking through queer fat activism that illuminates the importance of sex positive analysis and strategies. It will examine how sex positivity and body positivity feed each other, the need for embodied activism, and the ways that sex positivity can encourage us to bring our whole and complex selves to the table. It will also cover the pitfalls of a simplistic sex positive politic and how sex negativity feeds and fosters multiple forms of oppression in our lives, and ways to respond to sex negativity from within and outside activist communities. All sizes welcome.

 

I will be also teaching on bootplay at Conversio Virium on October 25 from 9pm-11pm, at Columbia University, Hamilton Hall, Room 302. (1130 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC) This is free and open to the public.

 

Bootplay: licking, stomping, fucking, kicking and more

Boots can be an expression of fetish, a tool for SM, a representation of dominance and an extension of sexuality. This class will not focus on bootblacking, but on different ways to incorporate boots into your Ds dynamic, SM play and sex life.

 

You probably already know that I write queer kinky erotica under the nom de plume Xan West. My story, "Lucky" is just out in the collection Best SM Erotica Volume 3. My story "First Time Since", which was printed in Hurts So Good, won Honorable Mention for the 2008 National Leather Association's John Preston Short Fiction Award. I also have several pieces of erotica in anthologies that are on the shelves now (Men at Noon, Monsters at Midnight, Biker Boys, Backdraft, Hurts So Good, Best Women's Erotica 09, Leathermen, Frenzy, Daddies, Men on the Edge, Cruising for Bad Boys, Pleasure Bound, and SexTime: Erotic Stories of Time Travel). I wrote the introduction to Wired Hard 4, which was published by Circlet Press.My work is slated to appear in Best SM Erotica 3, Blood Sacraments, In Plain View, I Like to Watch, Gay Quickies, Best Lesbian Erotica 2011, and Cupido magazine.

 

Lastly, I will be reading my work at a Best Lesbian Erotica focused edition of Drunken Careening Writers, hosted by Kathleen Warnock, the editor of the BLE series. This reading will occur on December 16, 2011.

 

I hope to see you at my workshop at NYU!

 

Corey Alexander
 
Corey Alexander is an NYC based FTM kink educator and writer. He was the founding facilitator of the Queer Special Interest Group at The Eulenspiegal Society and has been a kink educator since 2003. He writes erotica under the nom de plume Xan West.

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