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Following up on last week’s post about a support group for polyamorous folks, this showed up in my in-box. See below and pass it on!
The Living Arts Counseling Center presents:
An Expressive Arts Psychotherapy Group for Polyamorous Couples and Individuals
Are you polyamorous? Non-monogamous? In an open relationship? Curious about exploring this territory together with your partner(s)?
In a judgment-free, safe, and playful space, we will use tools from expressive arts therapy to explore issues of open relationships, including jealousy, boundaries, rule-making/rule-breaking, sex, safer sex, love, emotional intimacy, loneliness, and what to tell the in-laws, the neighbors, or your best friend.
Come find community with others exploring similar territory!
This group is open to primary couples of all genders and orientations, as well as
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Via Sinclair Sexsmith
Are you a femme identified woman over the age of 18? Are currently coupled with a FTM identified person who has begun medical transition? If so, you may be eligible to participate study regarding the nature of a range of feelings and attitudes about body image. Study participants will be asked to participate in a 1-1.5 hour recorded, confidential interview. This study is part of a dissertation, a requirement for completion of a PsyD at the Wright Institute. If you are interested in participating, please contact the researcher, Matt Goldenberg, M.A at 510-981-4235 or email mgoldenberg@wi.edu
I’m guessing that this is specifically looking for femme cisgender women. And it sounds like a great bit research. Get in touch with the researcher directly
Continue reading Call for Particpants: Femmes in Relationships with FTMs
Although more people are discovering and exploring polyamory, it can be hard to find the support you need. A lot of therapists assume that poly folks can’t make a commitment or believe that their problems are due to being poly even though they’re the same issues and difficulties monogamous people have. (The Poly Friendly Professionals list is a good resource, btw.)
Akhila Kolesar, Ph.D. is forming a polyamory support group on Saturdays in San Francisco, so if you’re looking for some help navigating the challenges of your relationships, here’s a good place to go. Here’s the info from her flyer:
POLYAMORY PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUP
Saturdays 1-2:30pm Convenient Hayes Valley Location
Facilitated by Akhila E. A. Kolesar, Ph.D.
Polyamory is a special relational orientation that offers people
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Is anyone really surprised by the news that LGB youth are about 40% more likely to be punished by school authorities, police and the courts than heterosexual kids who do the same things? Just as driving while Black or flying while Muslim result in people being targeted for more intense scrutiny and harassment, people who don’t fit neatly into the stereotypical gender norms (which require heterosexuality) find themselves being bullied by peers and punished by those who have control over them.
Kathryn E. W. Himmelstein and Hannah Brückner’s study, Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study looked at the data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which followed a nationally representative sample of adolescents who were in grades 7
Continue reading Bullies Aren’t Just Other Kids: LGB Teens Get Harsher Treatment
This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.
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What is it with schools not letting teens bring dates to the prom?
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Hannah Williams wanted to bring her girlfriend to the prom and the folks in charge at Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School in Melbourne (an all-girls school) wouldn’t let her.
Their justifications are really interesting. Hannah’s father says that ”[t]he school kept saying because it is an all-girls school we want to make an event where they can meet boys in a social scenario.” Of course, not all girls want to meet boys in a social scenario, for any of a number of reasons. So then the principal took another tack:
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This showed up in my RSS feed today. Please forward widely!
Call for Submissions: Lesbian BDSM Erotica Anthology [Title Forthcoming] To be published by Cleis Press in fall 2011
Editor Sinclair Sexsmith is looking for hot, sexy, well-written stories about kinky sex between queer women, from bondage scenarios to power play to role play to sadism and masochism to sensation play, for a new anthology of lesbian BDSM erotica. Looking for characters with a range of age, race, sexual experience, gender identity and gender expression: butch, femme, genderqueer, gender-non-conforming, dapper, and others will all be considered. Cis women, trans women, and genderqueer characters who identify with the lesbian community are welcome. Stories should have strong literary voice, characters, tension, and rising action. All characters must
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San Francisco has always had plenty of sex positive community groups, parties, events, and such. The folks being Kinky Salon have decided to go old school and create SanFranSexy, a zine all about sex. And while it’s available online, you can also get it for free at Good Vibrations’ SF stores, as well as lots of other places around the Bay Area.
I’ve been a contributor to the mag from the beginning and I’m pleased to announce that issue #3 has just hit. I wrote a piece on safer sex for play parties, and you’ll also find some funny stories, info about upcoming events, and some hot photos from Kinky Salon’s last event. Go on over and take
Continue reading SanFranSexy #3 is Out
This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.
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According to the Helsinki Times and Huffington Post, over 30,000 people have left the Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran Church, the national church of Finland. The reason? They held a debate on LBGT rights and comments made by various folks on the anti side were deemed too homophobic to tolerate.
In general, about 800 people leave the church each week, so this is a major spike. And with 4.3 million members, that’s one out of every 14 members leaving. If one out of every 14 people in the US stood up to homophobia, we might not need the It Gets Better Project.
Just saying.
Continue reading Homophobia in Church? Finns Say “No Way!”
This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.
An article on the Stranger.com asks the question “why are so many gay kids killing themselves?” And the answer is that queer kids have always been at higher risk for suicide, drug abuse, depression, and sexual assault. For example, queer kids comprise up to 30% of teen suicides. And although we don’t know how many people are queer, it’s safe to say that it’s less than 30%, so there’s clearly a disproportionate impact.
Queer youth are also more likely to be homeless, mostly because their parents kick them out of the house when they come out (the awful term for it is “throwaway kids”). Imagine having to choose between being true to yourself or having a
Continue reading Homophobia, Bullying, and Queer Youth Suicides
Ever since I wrote The Most Important Thing That Men Who Have Sex With Women Need to Know, I’ve been finding myself in more conversations with other men about how we manage our sexual energy. A few weeks ago, I was at an event, talking with a couple of friends about it and one of them said something that stuck with me.
We were talking about what it’s like to get cruised by men, which has happened to all of us, and how some guys have an overly aggressive approach that we find off-putting. Now, none of us particularly freak out about men flirting or cruising with us, in and of itself. In fact, at least two of us like it some of the time,
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