Fleshbot.com stands out as a pivotal website for me because it was one of the first — and most mainstream — of porn sites to respect my gender pronouns. In addition, Fleshbot acts as a model of sex-positivity, being one of the few mainstream porn websites to post accurate sex ed and also to moderate the comments sections with respectful and educated information. And besides all of that goodness, Fleshbot has also been a huge supporter of my work. I was awarded Fleshbot Crush Object, and throughout the years the site has continued to promote queer pornography as well as my work with Karma Pervs. Earlier this year I was even honored to be a part of Fleshbot’s 2011 AVN Photoshoot with Stoya! Basically, I’m flattered beyond belief and am grateful to their staff Lux Alptraum, Ottimo Massimo,  Sailor Ripley, and others, who keep multiple posts coming on the daily. I can’t wait to hug them all in person!

This trip to New York will be like a mini-vacation. After traveling to the Berlin Porn Film Festival recently and then to LA to shoot for my friend Remy’s awesome new clothing company RH Denim, I feel like I need to just kick back and have fun.

At the last awards ceremony, I had the pleasure of hogging the photobooth for debauchery with brilliant photographer Nikola Tamindzic and sexy folks Justine Joli, Joanna Angel, Lorelei Lee, Fleshbot Editor Lux herself, and this fun shot with Arpad Miklos which will continue to be one of my favorite images of all time.

Can’t you tell how much I adored shooting with Nikola?  (You can see more of the whole set here.)

What’s going to happen this year? Well, I’ve been told to be on my best trouble-making behavior… so good times to be sure! I’m excited for the award ceremony, which celebrates the sexiest pop culture moments of 2011, from TV to Fashion and Tech. Belladonna will do a silks performance, and the evening will be hosted by Stoya and comedian Sara Benincasa. AND Alan Cumming will be there. I love Alan Cumming!

If you are in the New York area, I highly suggest you come. Here’s the ticket and location info. After Party presented by njoy at 11:11pm on 11/11/11 at the G2 Lounge.  Sexy flier time. Hope to see you there!

There’s a slew of amazing features and shorts; it’s really a great spread of work. Some featured artists include friends Tristan Taormino (check out her new Sex-Positive Salon website!), Jennifer Lyon Bell, and I’m looking forward to meeting Bruce LaBruce and Koichi Imaizumi. The work I’m in includes…

Films

• AlphaFemmes – Directed by Anna Devia, this film features dominant femmes. Catch me and my doll April Flores!
• Crash Pad Series Vol 6: Wide Open Dylan Ryan and I meet up at the Crash Pad (CrashPadSeries.com). Directed by Shine Louise Houston
• Roulette Toronto – Directed by Courtney Trouble, this scene was filmed during the Feminist Porn Awards with Drew DeVeaux and River Turner.
• TAXI Volume 2 – My scene with Dallas Fivestar in the back of a cab for Juicy Pink Box, part of the “Coming Mainstream” Panel.
• What Makes Us Queer – Courtney Trouble and Tina Horn run QueerPorn.TV. This minidocumentary shows clips from interviews and scenes.

*If you’d like a signed copy of “AlphaFemmes”, “Crash Pad 6″, or “Roulette Toronto” or other films, please contact me!

Other events

• Filmmaker in Focus – Tristan Taormino will show “Adrianna’s Dangerous Mind” – in which Adrianna’s fantasy included me as David Bowie. Adrianna will be there too!
• Panel – “Coming Mainstream” – Discussions on queer/indie and lesbian/mainstream pornography with myself, Tristan Taormino, Nica Noelle, Emilie Jouvet and Judy Minx.
• Jury –  I’m on the Short Film Competition Jury with Joachim Post and Jennifer Lyon Bell.
• Parties – There are five parties planned during the event, I will likely be at all of them!

Here’s the official program (pdf).

So much Gay!

Every June San Francisco’s Queer Arts Festival bursts with events. Being gay, it’s always a super busy month! Here’s what I’ve got going on, you ready?

Wednesday June 22nd
SF Bay June Queer/Leather Happy Hour – Pride Edition
The Mix SF

Come to happy hour at the Mix and celebrate being gay as shit with some old friends and maybe make some new ones too. Ms SF Leather 2010 Leo Peralta will be hosting and IMsL Producer Emeritus Levi Halberstadt will be in the house. Ms Alameda County Leather 2010 Trinity, Mr. SF Leather 2011 Daren Bondy, International Ms Leather Owner and Producer Glenda Rider, Ms Alameda County Leather 2009 Deborah Isadorah, International Ms Bootblack 2008 Q and Sexy Ass Queer SF Porn Star Jiz Lee. American Leather Woman 2008 may make it out too… the list goes on and on! There will be cruising, hot perverts, and as much pride as you can handle. All genders and nice people welcome.

Come celebrate the beginning of a long and beautiful weekend with me!

Friday June 24th
Original Plumbing Magazine’s UNOFFICIAL II Trans Pride Party

Come celebrate Trans Pride UNOFFICIALLY at Original Plumbing’s 2nd annual after party: UNOFFICIAL! Just blocks away from Dolores Park, post-Trans March, upstairs at the Elbo Room on Valencia Street. DJ RapidFire and DJ Bunnystyle spinning all the jams! Hosted by Hailey Laws / Young Zed! JM mans the manic merch table — hocking OP’s new GREEN issue, which features a spread starring Go Go Faun of the evening, Puck Goodfellow! doorLADY Starr Violet ! Hot Go Go’s *JIZ Lee *KELLY Lovemonster *PUCK Goodfellow and *MORE Trans cruising (!) musing (*) bruising (?) Bump and grind and find a cutie to celebrate with for the rest of the weekend. Transsexualizing what “Pride” means to us. 2 years in a row. Join the community in celebration. Promote trans visibility in a space for trans people, allies and loves of all genders.

I’m Go-Go Dancing around midnight! There will be underwear involved.

Saturday June 25th
Dyke March Pink Saturday
Rally in Dolores Park 3–7 pm
The San Francisco Dyke March is for dykes. Dykes gather at the Dyke March to celebrate our love and passion for women and for ALL dykes. We celebrate our queerness in all its manifestations. We understand dyke identity to include those of us who are questioning and challenging gender constructs and the social definitions of women: transdyke, MTF, transfeminine, transmasculine, genderqueer, and gender fluid dykes. We also welcome all women who want to support dykes to march with us. Celebrate dyke diversity!

I’ll be there, bumping into dykes.

Pride Sunday June 26th
Queerly Beloved 3-8pm EL RIO
Buying tickets through brownpapertickets.com will garner you as a VIP for the event, which means you’ll get a giftbag full of goodies, and you’ll be ON THE LIST, you don’t have to stand in line! These tickets will only be $8 for the first week of sales, so order now before they go up!!!

ICY LYTES (girl/boy queer hip hop duo from Los Angeles), ALOTTA BOUTTE performing her legendary burleqsue!!! DJ Jenna Riot & DJ Bianca Oblivion spinning dance club, top 40, hip hop, and nasty jams to grind to! Performance by ledgendary queer Porn Stars JIZ LEE and DYLAN RYAN, Queer, all-gender Wet T Shirt Contest! Wet, Hot, Go-Go Dancers, Hosted by queer porn icon Courtney Trouble & drag superstar Dommenique St. Putain.

Did you like the video above? Mickey Mod filmed the Queerly Beloved promo video for me and Dylan Ryan (with fluffer help from his lovely assistant, B). We will be performing around 6pm that day. You know you want to watch us.

Pride Sunday June 27th-29th
THIS IS WHAT I WANT
Simply stated – This is What I want is a 4 day festival of new work that deal with sex created by SF/Bay Area dance and performance artists. Within this forum, a bunch of exceedingly smart and crafty artists get together and tell the truth about some things that otherwise might be kept silent. Produced by: Jesse Hewit, Rachael Dichter and THEOFFCENTER; Curated by: Jesse Hewit, Rachael Dichter, Keith Hennessy, Jiz Lee, and Michelle Tea. (Read all about it.)

I was honored to help curate this show, a difficult job — proof that the desire for this kind of performative dialog is loud and strong. Join me in watching thirteen artists show us what they want. I want you to come.

Last year I attended the 1st Ecosexual Symposium held in Los Angeles, presenting on Green Porn with director Carlos Batts and his muse (and my doll) April Flores. We showed a clip from the waterfall scene in Dangerous Curves featuring April, Syd Blakovich, and myself. The scene was also presented for this year’s symposium events at an ecosexual queer porn screening. It was a pleasure to watch it again in a garden at night with a bunch of queers, beers, and blankets. Kitty Stryker was there and blogged about it on PurrVersatility. By the way, you can watch the Dangerous Curves trailer, and buy it at GoodVibes.com or order a custom signed copy through emailing me at jiz @ jizlee . com.

This year I’m also moderating the “Ecosex & Art” Panel, which will be held at the Center for Sex & Culture 2:30-4pm today.

What defines ecosexual art, or ecorotic art? Green Porn? The Urban Dictionary defines “Ecosexual” as: A term describing a person, in a dating sense, who is social and environmentally conscious. Similar to metrosexual, but for someone who wears and buys organic items and drives a hybrid car.
ie: I would love to date an ecosexual person so we can go to the farmers market together.

In our fast food culture, we consume fast sex. If there’s a slow foods movement, what would a slow sex movement look like? As Annie says, “We aim to make the environmental movement more fun, sexy, and diverse.” Bringing art into the equation is the key and Ecosexual is where art meets theory, meets practice, meets activism. Keith Bowers writes in the SF Weekly, Ecosex “involves using sex and sexuality to raise awareness about environmental and sustainability issues. More than “doing it green,” they say, it’s a way to make the movement itself more sexy and fun.” I see the ecosexual movement as a beautiful and highly creative way to bring awareness to the joys of sexual pleasure and human life. Though you may have found this blog through porn, I also have a background in art and performance, and am from Hawai`i where the connection to the land (`Aina) was a large part of my upbringing. So I’m thrilled to participate in the symposium and introduce Ecosex & Art’s panelists Tessa Wills, Penny Slinger, Tania Hammidi, and Dylan Bolles & Sasha Hom.

Tessa Wills: Anal Ecology; A Dedication to the Earth
Penny Slinger: The Dakinis as EcoSexual Ambassadors
Tania Hammidi Ph.D.: Olive Tree Hug
Dylan Bolles & Sasha Hom: The Myth of Ten Thousand Things

Here are their bios, as posted on sexecology.org:

Artists:

Tessa Wills is a choreographer and a Live Artist. Her current concerns in practice are wounds, punctures, liminality and the movement organizing principles of birds. She is honoured to continue her working relationship with Stephens and Sprinkle by restaging this collaboration with Harold Burns as a dedication to the Earth. Burns is a Bay Area performer, activist and educator, and member of the offcentre (theoffcenter.org). This duet is was origionally inspired by Chaignord and Bengolea’s performance “Paqurette”. Costumes by Honey McMoney (honeymcmoney.com). Equipment and education from Eve Minax (eveminax.com) Madame Pele (madamegoddess.com) and Kirk Read (kirkread.com). Burns and Wills next perform for the festival ‘This is What I Want” in June, and premier a new full length piece at Counterpulse on August 12th and 13th. tessawills.com Tessa is supporting the feild of the providers ally; a resource for professionals. lillyally.com

Wills and Burns will present “Anal Ecology; A Dedication to the Earth” on the EcoSex Art Panel.

 

Penny Slinger is an artist, writer and filmmaker who has not only championed the liberation of sexuality and the feminine, but actively forged new paths. Her art and techniques have been on the cutting edge of new realities since she emerged onto the London art scene at the end of the 1960s. Using herself as her own muse, she stripped away the layers of the feminine psyche as ‘the ultimate expose’ in photocollages and sculptures featuring life casts. Her artwork has been widely exhibited and a number of books and videos of her work have been published. She co-authored and illustrated ‘Sexual Secrets, The Alchemy of Ecstasy’ (1979), a seminal work bringing Tantra to a wider audience. Her current work, the 64 Dakini Oracle, has been many years in the making. The images are highly detailed digital collages, which Penny recognizes as a new medium for fine art. The oracle comprises 64 Divine Feminine archetypes in the form of a Goddess Temple for our time. pennyslinger.com and 64dakinioracle.org

Penny Slinger will present “The Dakinis as EcoSexual Ambassadors”on the EcoSex Art Panel.

 

Tania Hammidi is a conceptual artist, educator, and freelance writer. She teaches design and queer theory at California College of Art and the University of California, Davis. She holds a Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies, curates LGBTQ fashion events, and likes trees … a lot. More info: taniahammidi.com (Photo by Blanca Muñoz.)

Hammidi will present on the EcoSex and Art Panel. Hammidi’s talk is entitled “Olive Tree Hug”

 

Myth of Ten Thousand Things is a family project. In poetic song-like
structures Sasha Hom speaks of all the impossible places we make our
homes, while Dylan Bolles plays various instruments, sometimes
singing. We work in the mess and see what happens. Dylan Bolles makes performances with people and environments, many of
which involve the design and construction of new musical instruments
 and the cultivation of co-creative relationships through listening
 practice. Sasha Hom writes all kinds of things, but most of her time is spent chasing after her daughters. Sometimes she writes about this too. To check out more of her work and see her publications: SashaHom.com

Bolles and Hom will present on the EcoSex Art Panel. Their presentation is entitled ” The Myth of Ten Thousand Things.”

Moderator:

Jiz Lee is genderqueer pornstar known for an androgynous gender-bending appearance, copious female ejaculation, champion fisting, cock slinging, and light-hearted attitude about sex. The Feminist Porn Award-winning performer works with celebrated female filmmakers and advocates ethical porn as an author and speaker. With one foot in the Bay Area arts scene, Jiz holds a BA in Dance and has a background in arts management and performance as one-half of the art duo Twincest (RIP). At last year’s Ecosex Symposium, Jiz presented “Dangerous Curves” by Carlos Batts and April Flores, where the road to beautiful, hard to reach places was metaphorically portrayed through hardcore sex in luscious natural environments. This year Jiz is honored to moderate the Ecosex & Art Panel. (Photo: Tristan Crane/Karma Pervs)

Please come if you can, and if you’re not able, do check out the websites of these artists and other participants of the Ecosexual Symposium II.

Also, I would be remiss to not include in this post one of my favorite ecosexual art happenings on the internet, Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno” on the Sundance Channel!

So the saga continues, and I was stoked to return with the swoon-inducing STOYA, who I had the utmost pleasure posing with during the AVN Awards for Fleshbot. Molly invited Stoya and I to pose for a riveting “Jack the Ripper” themed event. (Nice to see it was Critic’s Pick on Time OUT New York and a great interview of Molly in FlavorWire.)

Dr Sketchy’s Jack the Ripper was sexy, gruesome, and also political with a surprise murder and flyers. We used the event as a political platform to raise awareness for Red Umbrella Project‘s Protect, Don’t Persecute Campaign. Jack’s victims are prostitutes, however we flipped the narrative with an alternative ending where his last murder attempt turns the knife on him. We also made announcements and passed around flyers for Protect, Don’t Persecute.

For those of you who were unable to make the special event, I’m thrilled to be able to share some photos, by Justin Lussier:

From Dr. Sketchy’s Website: Our theme was Jack the Ripper – the 19th century murderer of 5 prostitutes in and around Whitechapel.  We hoped to raise awareness that violence against sex workers is still a problem today, especially in recent years, with the so-called “Long Island Ripper” who has killed at least 4 in and around Suffolk county, very close to our home.  Specifically, we wished to raise support of the Red Umbrella Project’s “Protect, Don’t Persecute” campaign to grant amnesty to sex workers providing information that may lead to the apprehension of this murderer.  The Whitechapel Murderer was never arrested, but we want to do all we can to prevent history from repeating.

Check out more photos and artists’ works!

It’s May, which for the past several years has been declared and celebrated as National Masturbation Month. Started by Good Vibrations after Jocylen Elders was fired from her position as Surgeon General after advocating that children should be taught masturbation as an alternate and healthy form of sex. For this post I have three masturbation-related projects to share. I really enjoy them and I hope the feeling is… mutual!

STICKY: a documentary on masturbation

 
Check out and support this fun documentary on masturbation, which includes some of my friends such as Dr. Carol Queen and Nina Hartley.

GUSH: Official Guide to the G-Spot & Female Ejaculation

 
Carol’s sex ed film on the G-spot and ejaculation is now out and will be screening this Thursday (May5th) at the Roxie Theater. In the feature, I have a solo masturbation scene and also talk about my experiences in the extra bonus features — look for the POOL of cum I create! If you’re in the SF Bay Area, please join us! I will also be at the after party at the Valencia Good Vibes Store to sign DVDs (and anything else you want me to sign… ).

Here’s information to buy tickets. If you can’t make it, you can order it through GoodVibes.com or through my film page for a personally autographed copy and other goodies.

Sex-Positive Photo Projects Does it Everyday

 
Contributors Shilo McCabe and Airial Clark are the masterminds behind the Sex Positive Photo Project, which is celebrating each day with a masturbation photo and guest posts. I am going to model for it later this month. I’m hoping for an outdoor shoot and a waterfall. (As you know, I’m a big fan of Shilo’s work and you might remember some images from our last shoot for Karma Pervs which was also donated at Shibari Relief.)

Feeling inspired? Enjoy some G-spot Vibrators and masturbation toys from Good Vibrations (code GV15OFF for 15% off your first order). Or watch some of my films at Good Vibes or on Video on Demand with HotMoviesForHer.com. Happy Self-Loving!

First off, thank you to all my friends/fans/supporters who helped me meet my fundraising goal to cover the cost of my trip to Toronto to attend the ceremony and festivities. I hope you enjoy the DVDs I sent you.

I arrived Thursday night for the PUBLIC PROVOCATIVE PORN screening, featuring ArtCore and Sola by Carlos Batts, Jaiya, clips of Drew DeVeaux, and a sneak peak at Cheryl Dunye‘s highly anticipated “MOMMY IS COMING“, which I shot in Berlin last August. The screening was a nice display of the artists’ works and the panel discussion hosted by Lorraine Hewitt was short and well-focused. Tristan Taormino gave the night’s introduction with a rousing speech. One of my favorite of her one-liners: “Feminist Porn is a mouthful.”

Panel: Lorraine, Carlos Batts, Drew DeVeaux, Jaiya, Cheryl Dunye. Photo: Bobbi Starr

After the screening, I met two awesome fans who presented me with a crazy cool nude collage.

Me with artists, Trevor & Sam. Photo: Drew DeVeaux

On Friday, I had a brunch-time interview and then met up with Maxwell Lander for a photoshoot at Loft 404. Here’s a quick snapshot, more to come later. After a delicious dinner at Fressen with my Toronto roomies Bobbi Starr & Lux Alptraum, we were off to the Awards.

The ceremony was high-energy and packed full of women, queers, porn-lovers, and all kinds of happy, brilliant, bubbly folks. There were a lot of nominations this year, and I was particularly excited to see more Los Angeles-based porn folks nominated and in attendance. I was also happy to see two that I’ve participated in, QueerPorn.TV and Kelly Shibari’s PaddedKINK.com, and Shine Louise Houston‘s new masculine-sexuality site HeavenlySpire.com awarded. Speaking of masculinity, this year Good For Her showed a clip of “Masculine Eye Candy for the Feminist Smut Lover” which highlighted clips of James Deen, Mickey Mod, Danny Wylde, Wolf Hudson, and Billy Castro (I would have loved to have seen Keni Styles added to this list!). I wish they all could have been there to soak it in. I also missed my SF Porn Posse who were not able to attend this year: Ken Rowe (Trannywood), Madison Young, Dylan Ryan, Syd Blakovich, and Courtney Trouble. In their absence, Shine, Drew, April Flores & Carlos, Tina Horn and myself represented, along with HotMoviesForHer‘s JD Bauchery.

Me & Shine Louise Houston. Photo: Miss Lagsalot/WHACK Magazine

I performed in twelve nominations this year (joked about going for the “slut award” with co-host Ryan), and 4 projects were awarded: TAXI, Billy Castro Does the Mission, QueerPorn.tv and PaddedKINK.com. In the times between the handing of awards, I had the pleasure to make acquaintances with Lee Roy Myers and Honey, and I also got to meet the two cute faces behind fuckyeahjizlee.tumblr.com!

Me & the *cute* creators of... fuckyeahjizlee.tumblr.com! (Photo: fuckyeahjizlee.tumblr.com!!!)

My Toronto weekend came to an end on Saturday night at the play party SWITCH presented by ASLAN Leather. I shot a scene that was livestreamed for SSJ Productions, a new company by Sophia St. James. My co-stars were Mr. Gray and the foxy Sophia herself. SWITCH was located at a beautiful club that had a large heated outdoor swimming pool. I spent the remainder of the night relaxing and chatting with Tobi Hill-Meyer, Mommy Fiercest, Strap-on Jo, Drew, Nic Switch, and many others.

While everyone is a winner in my book, here are the Good For Her Feminist Porn Award Winners of 2011

Best Bi Movie
Sex Experiments
Anna Span

Smutty Schoolteacher Award for Sex Education
Oral Sex For Couples Volumes 1-3
Jaiya and Lawrence Lanoff

Hottest Kink Movie
Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex 2
Tristan Taormino

Most Deliciously Diverse Cast
Tight Places: A Drop of Color
Nenna (Check out her Oakland Store Feelmore510)

Most Tantalizing Trans Film
Billy Castro Does The Mission
Courtney Trouble

Hottest Lesbian Vignette
Taxi Volume 1
Jincey Lumpkin & Maria Angel

Sexiest Straight Movie
An Open Invitation: A Real Swingers Party in San Francisco
Ilana Rothman

Hottest Lesbian Feature Film
Lost
Kathryn Annelle

Steamiest Romantic Movie
A Little Part of Me
James Avalon

Golden Beaver Award for Canadian Content
Maybe He’s Gifted
N. Maxwell Lander and Beau Charlie

Heartthrob of the Year
Drew Deveaux

Movie of the Year
Life Love Lust
Erika Lust

Honoured Websites
PaddedKINK.com
Kelly Shibari

ArtOfBlowJob.com
Camille Crimson

QueerPorn.TV
Coutrney Trouble and Tina Horn

HeavenlySpire.com
Shine Louise Houston

Honourable Mentions
Twisted Getaway
Sophia St. James

Art School Dykes
Lily Cade

Genderfellator
Tobi Hill-Meyer

My Own Master
Kimberly Kane

Related Articles & Posts (Currently being updated!)

• Xtra – “Feminist Porn Awards Does Dudes”
• Whack Magazine “The Best in Cooze Coverage from the Feminist Porn Awards”
• Now Toronto – Brief Photo Gallery
• SexLife Canada “Hooking Up with the Feminist Porn Awards”
• SexLife Canada “The Feminist Porn Awards 2011 Review” Features a mention of my scene at SWITCH
• Drew DeVeaux’s Interview in Toronto’s Eyeweekly
• XBiz & AVN (Mainstream Adult Industry Covers the Winners)
• JD’s HotMovies Blog (Part 1)

If you’re like me and are curious about watching the past and present winners — and nominees — watch HotMovie’s Feminist Porn Category – Video On Demand

Staff of Good For Her

Thank you Good For Her!

On Saturday April 16th I will be performing at SWITCH, a kinky queer play party presented by ASLAN Leather during the Feminist Porn Awards in Toronto.

Here’s link for more info: House of Switch

I will be performing with Sophia St James & Daddy Aslan.

Follow me on Twitter @JizLee or some on Facebook (the account, not the page), for posts from the Feminist Porn Awards (#FPA2011) and the Play Party!

I’m thrilled to announce that one of the images from my recent Secret Angel Karma Pervs collaboration with photographer Shilo McCabe (of the Sex Positive Photo Project) will be supporting Shibari Relief, a kinky artist’s fundraiser for disaster relief in Japan.

Patti Beadles and Mark I. Chester are organizing a kinky art silent auction/sale/raffle of BSDM art, sexual art and other related items to be held at Wicked Grounds this Sunday, March 27th from 2-5 pm. Shilo will be donating a 16×20 print of our winged photo.  The print will be signed by Shilo and myself.

100% of the proceeds go directly to the American Red Cross, earmarked for disaster relief in Japan.  Come out and support the event, and enjoy coffee and sweet (vegan and non-vegan) treats. Additionally, anyone making a donation at the door will get a ticket to get two free digital pix taken by San Francisco gay radical sex photographer, Mark I Chester at his studio at 1229 Folsom St., just 1/2 block from Wicked Grounds, from 3-5pm during the fundraiser.

Shilo adds that Miss Maggie Mayhem artisian clothespins will also be available. And if you aren’t able to make the date in SF, maybe contact Shilo to purchase a special print?

UPDATE! Thank you those who attended and purchased items! The event raised $2478!

Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
7:00pm – 10:00pm
San Francisco LGBT Community Center – Rainbow Room
1800 Market Street between Octavia & Laguna
Tickets: $12-$20 (no one turned away!)

Queer cisgender women and queer transgender women are allies, friends, support systems, lovers, and partners to each other. Trans and cis women are allies to each other every day — from activism that includes everything from Take Back the Night to Camp Trans; to supporting each other in having “othered” bodies in a world that is obsessed with idealized body types; to loving, having sex, and building family with each other in a world that wants us to disappear.

Girl Talk is a spoken word show fostering and promoting dialogue about these relationships. Trans and cis women will read about their relationships of all kinds – sexual and romantic, chosen and blood family, friendships, support networks, activist alliances. Join us for a night of stories about sex, bodies, feminism, activism, challenging exclusion in masculine-centric dyke spaces, dating and breaking up, finding each other, and finding love and family.

Curated & hosted by Gina de Vries, Elena Rose, & Julia Serano.
Including: Tobi Hill-Meyer, Sadie Lune. Elena Rose, aka little light, Ray Rubin