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Little things
February 17, 2006
Little thing #1: Today in my internet travels I came across the grossest euphemism for penis that I’ve seen in a long time: “blue veiner.” As in “They rubbed their throbbing blue veiners together.” It made me say “ewwww” out loud, and I’m a big fan of penises being rubbed together.
Little thing #2: when I neglect to hit the spacebar between “Audacia” and “Ray” my spell check tells me that the resulting word should be “judiciary.” This amuses me to no end.
This week has been crazy, and as I look at my calendar I see that life is going to be unrelentingly crazy for the next few months. I’m excited about this and all, but also a little bewildered. I seem to be getting more social and also getting more giant heaps of (fun! interesting!) work, so we’ll see how that works out.
I had brunch with the girl formerly known as Lux Nightmare this week, wherein we ate giant plates of breakfast food, gossiped about alt porn and had a hearty laugh about our mutual ex-boyfriend. She and I should have been friends years ago, but weren’t mainly because of said ex-boyfriend. Who has the last laugh now, eh?
This week I’ve been pretty thoroughly steeped in lots of writing and research, not a bad thing at all, but I feel like I’ve got the fever: can’t think and write fast enough. Lots of good stuff in the works, some hush hush, some not. Sometime soon, all (some?) will be revealed.
One thing I can spill about is a collaborative project that I’ve been working on for a while and am getting more excited about by the day. Well, actually, two projects at once (cuz I need more of that). On March 30, folks from CUNY and the New School are putting on a one day conference called Sex Work Matters, which “aims to provide a forum for dialogue among scholars, activists and analysts involved in issues surrounding sex work.” I’m doing a roundtable with the esteemed Melissa Gira, with whom I’m really excited to be working (and, you know, meeting). Our roundtable is called “Multiple Roles: Sex Workers, Activists and Academics” and we’ve got a truly interesting group of people in the mix:
Moderators:
Melissa Gira, Board of Directors Member, Lusty Lady/SEIU Local 790
Audacia Ray, Executive Editor, $pread Magazine
Invited Participants:
R. Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence University, coeditor of Flesh for Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance
Robyn Few, Executive Director, Sex Workers Outreach Project
Jessica Melusine, boa (a journal of new whore culture)
Elizabeth Nanas, Wayne State University
$pread is also organizing a party the night before the conference, which we’ve envisioned as an art exhibition and silent auction featuring artwork made by and/or about sex workers. I’m excited to flex my curatorial muscles a bit on that one, it should be really fascinating. If there are any sex workers/artists out amongst my readers who might be interested in submitting pieces to the show or at least learning more about it, email me at audacia@spreadmagazine.org.
Its the little things, like meals with friends and masturbation and ham sandwich breaks (but not masturbation with ham sandwiches) that keep me energized. And now, back to the so-called grind.
Posted by Dacia at February 17, 2006 09:28 PM
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You have a lot of plates in the air right now!
I think I’ll come by and say hello to Melissa Gira. I love the she said “I heart that NY crowd so hard’ and that she reads the Carnival every day.
We know s a bacon of the month club. But alas, no ham of the month that I could find.
Posted by: Viviane at February 18, 2006 07:59 AM
Dacia with lots of plates in the air… now that’s a funny mental picture.
The ‘judiciary’ thing is also hilarious. Especially if you’ve heard the Dana Carvey bit where he talks about how you can’t say “judicial system” without sounding drunk.
Posted by: Amber at February 20, 2006 09:30 PM
blue veiner. that is absolutely repulsive. wow.
Posted by: Britt at February 20, 2006 11:30 PM
i <3 lux. i got to meet her just once!
Posted by: trouble at February 22, 2006 03:16 AM
