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TRANSGENDER FILM FESTIVAL in KIEL #BuckAngel

From my friends in Germany,  an announcement of a new film fest honoring Transgender identity. Awesome to see that my bud Buck Angel will be one of the stars! YEAH!

 

TRANSGENDER FILM FESTIVAL
in Kiel / Germany
March 21 – 23, 2013
Films about crossdressing and transsexuality.
The World is changing – People are changing

I AM A WOMAN NOW by Michiel van Erp (Netherlands)
http://www.defamilie.net/Documentaires/I%20Am%20A%20Woman%20Now

MAN FOR A DAY by Katarina Peters (Germany)
http://manforaday-film.com

ROMEOS by Sabine Bernardi (Germany)
http://www.romeos-derfilm.de

TRANSPAPA by Sarah-Judith Mettke (Germany)
http://www.imdb.de/title/tt2175997

SHE-MAN by Bob Clark (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183766/

SURRENDER DOROTHY by Kevin DiNovis (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140587
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b6JOLsolPI

TOMBOY de Celine Sciamma (France)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1847731

SCHMUCK DER STRASSE by Rosa Baches (Germany)
http://www.schmuckderstrasse.de

PAULISTA by Roberto Moreira (Brazil)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205004/

PEACHES DOES HERSELF by Peaches (Germany)
http://www.peachesdoesherself.com 

Short-Film-Program including
DRESSED AS A GIRL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEhHS245BTY
HOUSE FOR SALE http://www.houseforsalefilm.com
MISS D http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2319945/
I’M IN (L) http://cargocollective.com/gsuslopez/filter/Film
SCHWESTERN DER PERPETUELLEN INDULGENZ http://www.70filme.de
EVA LOVE http://www.70filme.de
HADES http://www.franckglenisson.com
VICTOR http://buckangelentertainment.com
SELF EXPRESSION http://buckangelentertainment.com


http://www.facebook.com/groups/440452729329189

March 21. – 23., 2013 in city Kiel

http://www.transgender-film-festival.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Transgender Film Festival

www.traum-kino-kiel.de

Traum-Kino
Grasweg 19
24118 Kiel
Germany

Fon: 0431 5444514
Fax: 0431 5444550  

Traum-GmbH, Grasweg 19, 24118 Kiel
Geschäftsführer: Johanna Günther
Amtsgericht Kiel, HRB 4625

 

Hello Old Girl! (manstyling)

Don't know anything about this great vintage (1910-1930) photo beyond the inscription on the back (below). Looks like they were having fun, though.

 

 

KEN for Men and sex-change cowboys

Gee, that sucked.  Sorry 'bout the interruption.   Coming up thru midnight, more incredible vintage men's pulp and softcore magazines, with a few special treats just for you.

 

 

 

 

Welcome Back to My World: The Gloria Brame tonight

OMG, the technical difficulties.  Don't ask.  But here we are, at long last, and we were awfully happy to be back!

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Gloria's back and she's bolder than ever.  Listen now Dr. Brame and the inimitable Jennifer Bangs dive in to duck sex, ponder golden moles penis size preferences, tear a whole... See More through monogamy, and steamroll into human sexual diversity and Gloria's new book! (sorry 'bout the music -- we'll fix it next week)

 

Be Back Faster Than You Can Eat My Pickle

Heaven only knows what I'll have for you tomorrow...but whatever it'll be, it'll be heavenly.

 

xo,

G.

Le Nu Esthetique (1904) - Victorian Omnisexual Omnibus

Spectacular eBay find -- rare collector's portfolio of artful nudes published at the ascent of the Edwardian era, when the lusty liberal and socially progressive King Edward VII helped bring sex out of his mother Victoria's closet. 

This book really tried to appeal to everyone, with mythological fantasy scenarios, abduction themes, bisexual and lesbian  themes, centaurs (!!), and a full gallery of male nudes for gentlemen with a lavender pursuasion.

OMNI!  NOMMIE!!

(note: the book title says children are included in the volume too but the vendor wisely did not publish any. Victorian adults only in pix below.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today is Brought to you by a Girl's Guide to Getting a Man

Is it just me or is there something super-creepy about an organization that specializes in raising cows publishing advice for girls?  Did the Beef Council put out a companion volume for boys?

 

'Sworn Virgins' of Albania (transmen by culture)

My mind's been moving a million ways as I'm winding down (or building up?) to the grand finale of my book. Sex and gender's been on my mind. Check out this fascinating cultural tradition from Albania -- the photo gallery is spectacular.

 

 

 

 

"A perfectly ordinary girl, perhaps with aspirations of marriage and becoming a mother is asked by her family to take a vow of celibacy and foreswear sexual relations for life.

She is not being encouraged to join a convent. She is taking on the responsibility and honor of protecting her home, her family and socially becoming a man.

In the solidly patriarchal and tribal areas plagued by blood feuds and honor killings of Albania's rural mountain villages many such women who have "become" men act as the heads of their households.

For sacrificing their innate natures, they are afforded considerable masculine privileges. Skirts and blouses are traded for trousers and button downs, long hair cropped to a manly stubble. They smoke, work and swagger about town with the other men. They are referred to as "he" and "uncle."

Their absolute transition is accepted, posited and taken without question by the people among whom they live. They are called Sworn Virgins of Albania, or ‘burneshas." There are only a handful left.” -- Jill Peters

 

via news.yahoo.com - SLIDESHOW

 

The Height of French Lingerie Fashion, ca. 1960s

Cruel Fictions (vintage BDSM pulp fiction art)

Now this is what I call a party.

Lesbian Frolics of Another Century

popular type of soft-core Victorian erotic entertainment, featuring male impersonators seducing lovely lasses. Make sure to click on this one and then magnify it to see these luscious cards close to full size.

 

 

Sweet Sprinkles! Gloria Interviews Annie | Spreaker Online Radio

The complete interview of Annie Sprinkle without interruptions (and with major thanks to a special friend for improving the sound!).   Listen her and delight in  Annie Sprinkle's constantly evolving sexual performance art and, more than anything,  her radiant energy.   Hope our joy spills into your world today.

via The Gloria Brame Show @spreaker.com

This One's for all the Sweet Old Gals (and my daughter)

Certainly couldn't let this day pass without running tributory posts this morning. I've always felt a powerful kinship with the struggles of people who weren't born binary. One of the most important people in my life is Chrissie, my "daughter" (in the Scene sense), a transwoman I've known for 27 years.   She's the first person I played with in the SM world and  I've seen her evolve and transform and finally achieve self-acceptance and -- through that self-acceptance -- to achieve incredible strength and clarity.  I love her even more than she knows and am SO proud of all that she's overcome in her long and painful journey.  This Thanksgiving I am thankful that Chrissie has finally met the Mistress of her dreams (in one of the most romantic BDSM/transgender love stories I've ever known!). This is for you, babygirl, a nostalgic look at some of the old clubs you probably traipsed through in your terribly misguided youth.   :) :)

 

The Meaning of Unconditional Love: a transgender love story

A very short but delicious goodie from jeffprobst.com.

 

Dr. Marci Bowers: Myths and Truths About Transgender People

Activist and innovator, Dr. Bowers busts some myths about gender variance and offers some resources -- via the Jeff Probst show.

 

Dr. Marci Bowers, a leader in the field of gender reassignment surgery, talked with Jeff on today's show about the medical choices transgender people face. As a transgender woman herself, Dr. Bowers is no stranger to the issues that transgender people deal with, and in this Backstage Bonus, she addresses some of the myths about the transgender community that just aren't true.

via www.jeffprobst.com

Enlighten the world: Transgender day of remembrance

Violent Wives (vintage postcards)

It gives a dominatrix a queasy feeling in her stomach to see vintage postcards finding humor in domestic violence.

 

 

...although there is an undeniably hot edge to total mind control.

Annie Sprinkle: Post-Porn Modernist, Love Artist, Ecosexual,

I'll be exploring each of these, plus Annie's concept of metamorphosexuality, in depth on tonight's show but if you'd like to do some reading up, here are links (and excerpts) from Annie's current sex art projects.

Annie Sprinkle, Post-Porn Modernist

"We embrace our genitals as part, not separate from our spirits. We utilize sexually explicit words, pictures, performances to communicate our ideas and emotions.  We denounce sexual censorship as anti-art and inhuman.  We empower ourselves by this attitude of sex-positivism.  And with this love of our sexual selves we have fun, heal the world and endure."

from the Post-Porn Modernist Manifesto, written by Veronica Vera, performed by Annie Sprinkle

 

Love Art Laboratory

"We, Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie M. Sprinkle, are an artist couple committed to doing projects that explore, generate, and celebrate love. We utilize visual art, installation, theater pieces, interventions, live-art, exhibitions, lectures, printed matter and activism. Each year we orchestrate one or more interactive performance art weddings in collaboration with various national and international communities, then display the ephemera in art galleries. Our projects incorporate the colors and themes of the chakras, a structure inspired by Linda M. Montano’s 14 Years of Living Art. The Love Art Laboratory grew out of our response to the violence of war, the anti-gay marriage movement, and our prevailing culture of greed. Our projects are symbolic gestures intended to help make the world a more tolerant, sustainable, and peaceful place. This site is the Love Art Lab’s virtual home where we share our progress, documentation and findings. We are ecosexuals who have vowed to love, honor, and cherish the Earth, Sky and Sea until death brings us closer together forever."  -- Love Art Laboratory

Ecosexuality

"The Earth is our lover. We are madly, passionately, and fiercely in love, and we are grateful for this relationship each and every day. In order to create a more mutual and sustainable relationship with the Earth, we collaborate with nature. We treat the Earth with kindness, respect and affection." -- Ecosexuality

Transgender Day of Remembrance November 20th: honoring victims

from my friend Jane Fae, an activist in the UK working hard on on these issues, a detailed brief on the upcoming international day of mourning for victims of anti-trans hate crimes.

 

On Tuesday 20 November thousands of members of the Trans community and their supporters will gather together at locations around the globe for the Transgender Day of Remembrance  (TDoR).  They will do so to commemorate the hundreds of individuals murdered each year simply for being transgender.

For a background briefing on the day itself, together with outline details of events in the UK and contact details for further information, go to http://janefae.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/background-information-transgender-day-of-remembrance/ .

Buck Angel, LGBT History Icon

 In case you missed it, the Huffington Post's LGBT History special featured my amazing friend and fellow Woodhull Board Member, Buck Angel as an icon of gay history.   From the piece:

Buck Angel is a transgender filmmaker, advocate, adult film star, educator, motivational speaker, and the creator of the recently launched BuckAngelDating.com, a dating site for trans men.

 

 

Let's Live for Beauty in all its Nakedness

mid-late 1920s.

 

 

 

 

A Little Fetish (#ageplay)

via www.hansvanderkamp.com

Transitional Realities

via www.hansvanderkamp.com

People should have fun together

Kotex on hygienic hazards and handicaps

Hard to imagine the kind of terror such ads instilled in women, and how it further shored up inhibitions and fears about their vaginas.   On tonight's show, I'll talk a little about how the instilled social anxiety about vaginas --and some of the products sold to them -- has actually raised women's risk of infections and diseases.

 

 

 

 

The New Vagina Panty

via www.women24.com

Pulp International - Vintage Confidential with cover star Coccinelle

I've lifted the tabloids on today's blogs from www.pulpinternational.com, a fantastic Net ride through the vintage pulp side of life. Readers contribute with commentary, and some of the gems are priceless. Here's one I was delighted to find -- if you don't already know her, you should definitely read her entire bio. Wild! Inspiring!

 

 

 

This golden issue of Confidential from August 1961 contains an article about the one and only Coccinelle, who was a French transsexual performer, almost forgotten outside her home country, but who set the world on fire fifty years ago. Born as Jacques Charles Dufresnoy, he adopted the stage name Coccinelle—Ladybug—in 1953 when he debuted at the nightclub Chez Madame Arthur. At the outset of his career, Coccinelle was a male cross-dresser, but in 1958 he underwent sex change surgery in Morocco with spectacular results, and her re-emergence onto the stage as a woman made her world famous. Adopting the persona of blonde bombshells like Mansfield and Monroe, she was able to parlay her status into film roles, and was also featured in a few shockumentaries, but it was on the stage that she shone, performing at some of France’s most exclusive clubs, including Le Carrousel and Paris Olympia.

via www.pulpinternational.com

Decisions and Indecisions

Holiday at Crossdressing House

 How often do you see a whole family cross-dress these days?  When people say "bring back the old days," it's such images which always leap to my mind.