Since I arrived back in good ole NYC on Sunday night, I’ve been having events every evening - tonight is sort of a night off, except I have a radio interview at 2 am, so not really.
Next week I have what I view as my crowning glory, essential NYC book event. At my other events, I’ve been talking a lot about the fact that I interviewed more than 80 women for the book. On Monday night at the Museum of Sex - where, incidentally, I started this whole sex nerd journey as an employee almost six years ago - I’ll be hosting a panel with some of those very women who I keep talking about. I’m always going on about the fact that people should be encouraged to speak up for themselves and tell their own stories, and I’ll make good on that at this event. The line-up for the evening includes some really special and amazing women:
Ellen Friedrichs, of SexEdvice and formerly of Planned Parenthood’s Teenwire. Also, Ellen was a coworker of mine at MoSex, so I’m very happy to have her on the panel with me.
Lux Nightmare, of the brand spanking new Boinkology and formerly of her own bastion of alt porn stardom, That Strange Girl. Lux and I met maybe four years ago through a strange/hilarious set of circumstances that involved us sharing a boyfriend, open-relationship style. He was pretty devoted to making us dislike each other, but guess who’s laughing now?
Madeline Glass, of Madeline in the Mirror. The out-of-towner of the bunch, Maddy and I became fast friends through Jefferson, who she is dating, while I remain the only female sex blogger in NYC who is not dating him.
Marie Lyn Bernard, of This Girl Called Automatic Win, who was an early devotee of my blog and has become a shiny blogstar in her own right.
Together, we’ll be talking about personal experiments and explorations of sex online (yes, the dirty stuff), the pleasures and dangers the Internet puts at women’s fingertips, the emergence of a new online sex culture that is becoming increasingly available to women, and of course we’ll be answering any questions that the audience has… that’s actually my favorite part. MoSex is at 233 Fifth Avenue at 27th street - so come experience the weirdness of me talking about my book in the space of my former employer.
Tickets are $10, $8 for students and seniors, and you can get them ahead of time at the museum, by calling 212.689.6337 x115 or at the door the night of the event.
Now… its picture time. A few images from the last several days of events. Monday I read at SMUT at Galapagos in Williamsburg with Rachel Kramer Bussel, Tuesday I was at Bluestockings (and failed to take pictures), Wednesday I was at McNally Robinson with fellow Seal Authors Helen Boyd and Jessica Valenti, and last night I chinatown bussed it back and forth to Boston to do a reading at the Brookline Booksmith, cosponsored by the Center for New Words.
Blurry and orange at Galapagos
The window at McNally Robinson
Reading at McNally Robinson
The sign outside Brookline Booksmith. Note the last word: “Sexploitation.” The actual word in the title of the book is “Sexploration.” Not the first time this mistake has been made either.
1:03 pm
Wish I could be there.
1:53 pm
I’ll bring my camera to the panel.