Corey is presenting at the NYC Butch Voices conference 9/25

[Corey Alexander]

Hi folks,

 

With the torrential storm last night, we know that fall is here in NYC, and I for one am welcoming it with open arms.I love seasons of transition.  I have a number of things coming up this fall that I wanted to tell you about.

 

Next weekend, I will be teaching at the Butch Voices NYC conference. I had an amazing time at the national conference last year and am very much looking forward to the NYC regional conference. I am debuting two new classes, and I am really excited about that. It's a one day conference, and well worth the very reasonable registration fee. The schedule and workshop descriptions are up! I am so excited for this conference!

 

Saturday, September 25. 10am-6pm Queers for Economic Justice Performance and Conference Space; 147 West 24th Street, New York City, NY. On Site Registration on the 4th floor

Here is the rundown on my classes at BVNYC:

10am: Doing Relationships with Emotional Armor: For Stones and our Partners
One thing many stones have in common is emotional armor. We are often expected to be tough, to not show our insides, to gut it out. We protect our butch hearts, show ourselves to the world as granite, unshakeable, stoic. Armor is often valued, admired, and seen as attractive; at the same time, we are often criticized for our armor, for not opening up to our partners. This workshop focuses on honoring our armor, however thick it may be, even if we are also exploring ways to open up. We will talk about how we do relationships and intimacy, how we take care of ourselves and our partners, how we take risks. We will also create space to talk about the challenges of armor and what we need from our partners when we do show what’s inside. This is a workshop based discussion, where tools will be offered, but participants will also have the opportunity to raise questions and discuss difficulties with each other.

 

3pm: BDSM Skills for New Tops
This workshop offers concrete skills for doing BDSM, and also a place to discuss fears and challenges, offers critical safety information and also concrete skills for negotiation and self discovery around desire. One of the keys for new tops is around permission—folks giving themselves permission to desire what they desire, and to act on those desires. Engaging with permission is one of the keys to this workshop. Offering these skills within a context that is about supporting butch, trans-masculine, gender-queer, AG, androgynous, studs to discover what is meaningful about this within the context of our lives is key; it is taught from a queer perspective that explicitly engages with the specifics of people lives and experience.

 

Next month, I will be teaching a 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.

 

Coming up later in the fall, I will be teaching on bootplay at Conversio Virium. I will keep you posted about the date when I confirm it. 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 Butch Voices NYC!

 

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, and is Head of Programming and Special Events for The Floating World 2010.

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