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Consider the moments you have fallen in love. If you unpick the threads, you will quickly find much of the falling occurred in the mind. Many artifacts that go towards creating intimacy are imagined. We can’t fully understand or know someone else, but we can construct a persona around them and a shared view of the future.
“Porn is the billboard. Cam is the product,” my housemate and porn performer in Las Vegas tells me. She makes most of her money from camming: a form of live streaming, where viewers tip for a sexual performance via webcam. For her, performing in porn films is now more...
Philadelphia-based artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase is one of the most sought after painters from a growing pool of young, queer, POC artists. His lush, colorful, mixed-media depictions of often taboo subjects – sex, queerness, and the black male body – are energetic in a way that seem the set the still images in motion.
Ericka Hart is changing the face of health education. The breast cancer awareness and representation advocate was diagnosed with breast cancer, and now in her mid- 30s, she is challenging institutionalized racism in the medical industry—known as medical racism.
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by Iris Lux | Nov 22, 2019
What drew me to the world of Sir Babygirl (aka Kelsie Hogue) was not a song on a Spotify playlist. It was a photo from a live show. In it, Kelsie wears a pink pastel strap-on onstage, singing to an ecstatic crowd. Delighted by her bombastic queer style, I began listening to Crush On Me, Kelsie’s debut album. It was infectious and raw, playful and vulnerable. She sang songs about trauma and songs about gay cheerleaders. It thrilled me.
I spoke with Kelsie (who alternates between he and she pronouns) on the phone recently. He was eager to talk strap-ons when I asked. “I love the idea of normalizing the strap. It’s no less out there as an expression of sexuality than Britney Spears with the python around her neck at the VMAs, you know?” he says. As he sees it, the strap is an egalitarian accessory. “One of the coolest things about straps is that anyone can wear them, and anyone can receive them. There’s so much amazing possibility in that,” he says.
Mark is a Gen X / Millennial cusp who has been at different points an English Major college dropout, bike messenger, vegan line cook, zinester, barista, dog walker as well as the author of Spookytooth, a young adult queer/transgender teen witch novel.
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Ericka Hart is changing the face of health education. The breast cancer awareness and representation advocate was diagnosed with breast cancer, and now in her mid- 30s, she is challenging institutionalized racism in the medical industry—known as medical racism.
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