The Media Whoring panel from Sex 2.0 last month in Seattle. In this panel, Cunning Minx, Danielle Sipple, Jasen Bartlett, maymay, Reid Mihalko and Veronica Monet will discuss media strategies. Topics ranged from TV, radio, and print, to social networking and online media, to Twitter, to YouTube, to monitoring your presence online, to anything else that pops up! It was a lively discussion with this wide variety of sexy, smart media professionals.
Introduction and host chat
Intro, under-18 warning and re-direction to http://www.scarleteen.com; friend us on Twitter and answer questions about what you want on the show, call 206-202-POLY with comments or discuss your own topics at the forums.
Announcements
Three Wise Women event is Dossie Easton, Deborah Anapol and Serena Anderlini-d’Onofrio on July 3, 11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. in San Rafael, CA
PolyCamp 2010 is August 26-29 Millersylvania state park with classes for people new to poly and discussion groups for those of us who have been around awhile, artistic workshops/classes, spiritual workshops, tribal interests (drumming and belly dancing), music and dancing, and more!
Poly Family Weekend is Sept. 17-19 at the Atlanta Airport Crowne Plaza with guests Jessica Karels, Simon Deacon and yours truly!
Interview: Jessica Karels of Modern Poly Jessica Karels took time out of her busy schedule at Sex 2.0 to chat with us about poly activism, poly leadership and Modern Poly
Wrap-up
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Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
“When you come out, you make yourself vulnerable to disapproval, criticism, and discrimination.” -Pat Califia
Coming out to partner/children: lead your children down a critical thinking path to determine where prejudices and biases come from
Downside of coming out to children: you become a resource for thing like anal sex
Best response from a family member: “I don’t approve of it, but I can see why you do it.”
Worst response from a family member: “You’re dumb.”
Tip: have at least one token vanilla friend
Great case study of someone who was out at work: Jack McGeorge, the openly kinky weapons inspector. When opponents tried to discredit him, his boss Hans Blix stood up for him and refused to accept his resignation
YKIOK = “your kink is OK”–a response Graydancer got when he came out at work
Others benefit from your living out loud: if someone has come out to a person before, it’s more likely that person will be more accepting/familiar with the idea the next time
What catalyzes change? Pride, self-esteem, self-disclosure
Sex-negative=don’t do anything to be ashamed of. Sex-positive: don’t be ashamed of the things you do
SEATTLE – Sex 2.0 celebrates its third year May 22-23, 2010, in Seattle, Washington, at the Quality Inn. For the first time, the conference is heading to the West Coast and expanding across an entire weekend, attracting local and national influencers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts who are defining the future of sex and technology.
Sex 2.0 focuses on the intersection of social media, feminism, and sexuality. How is social media enabling people to learn, grow, and connect sexually? How is sexual expression tied to social activism? Does the concept of transparency online offer new opportunities or present new roadblocks — or both? These questions, and many more, are addressed within a safe, welcoming, sex positive space.
Topics this year include building your sex positive presence online, using the internet to connect with people as a sex coach or educator, participatory community organizing for social and sexual freedom, the new sex educators, and more. There will be panels on new media, distance sex work, and using the internet to improve the sex industry.
The conference welcomes all sex positive individuals 18+, the GLBTQ, poly, kinky, sex workers, podcasters, eroticists, activists and more. At Sex 2.0, everyone is a participant, rather than a passive attendee, joining conversations rather than listening to presentations. Respecting the confidentiality and protecting the identities of participants who wish to maintain a degree of anonymity is a top priority at Sex 2.0.
Profits will go to the Northwest chapter of the Sex Workers Outreach Project, which is dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy, and to the event producer, the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture.
Advance registration is mandatory, given the relatively sensitive nature of this event. Registration is open and tickets are $50 until May 19 or tickets sell out.
The conference is being held at the Quality Inn at 618 John St., in the heart of Seattle beside the famous Space Needle and Seattle Center. It officially runs from 9 a.m. Saturday to 4 p.m. Sunday, with parties on Friday and Sunday.
Sex 2.0 is being produced and sponsored by Seattle’s Foundation for Sex Positive Culture, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes the many ways sex is beneficial through education, outreach, the arts, advocacy, and research programs that serve the public.
0:00 Introduction and host chat
Intro, under-18 warning and re-direction to www.scarleteen.com; friend me on Twitter and answer questions about what you want on the show, call 206-202-POLY with comments or discuss your own topics at the forums at http://forum.polyweekly.com.
Chat: Sex 2.0
Minx recaps all the fun and education at Sex 2.0. Videos are up on Facebook
Topic: Polyamory in the Spotlight at Sex 2.0 Anita Wagner talks on polyamory in the spotlight at Sex 2.0
4:00 Minx gives us an overview on Sex 2.0 and then talks about some of the talks she sat in on.
8:30 Minx talks about the talks she did at Sex 2.0
10:55 Heads Up! We may be moving to every two weeks for a little bit. (the Minx be busy! -fs)
12:12 Anita Wagner talks about Poly
Anita talks about poly and perception in the mainstream media; Anita talks about print media, including
magazines and newspapers. She talks about the international impact. Anita talks about Steve Palima, self-help coach and his coming out poly
16:30 Anita talks about the various columnists and how they support polyamory.
(polyamory weekly? that sounds familiar….-fs)
19:20 Why is the media addressing polyamory? Looking for something new.
Pepper Mint wrote an article positing that polyamory is easier for the mainstream to swallow than things like kinks, swinging, etc.
21:40 Audience member asked Anita how she thinks the discourse has changed in the past ten years.
24:00 another audience member asks how poly people can distinct themselves from poly without marginalizing.
Wrap-up
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Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions”
0:00 Introduction and host chat
Intro, under-18 warning and re-direction to www.scarleteen.com; friend me on Twitter and answer questions about what you want on the show, call 206-202-POLY with comments or discuss your own topics at the new FORUMS at http://forum.polyweekly.com.
1:00 Host Chat
A Cunning Minx freshly back from Sex 2.0 relishes the memories of the conference! Rachel Kramer Bussel, eroticist and cupcake whore, was a delight; Regina Lynn from Wired; Audacia Ray, vixen extraordinaire and Melissa Gira made it amazing!
My first session was on sacred sexuality; Elizabeth Wood’s session on creating a sex-positive commons online was a great discussion; my own seminar on “Poly Pervs Like Me: Where Are They Hiding?” was packed full; Regina Lynn’s session on the history of cybersex was hysterical and enlightening; the last session of the day was Viviane of Viviane’s Sex Carnival with tons of great online tools
Plus, I learned that I’m too old to be a pole dancer!
8:00 Interview: Trans Like Me: Benny
Joanie had asked about transitioning from being a woman’s husband to being her wife and wanted to know about being poly and transgendered 9:30 Introduction: Benny is 26 and has been thinking about transitioning from a young age; kinky and pansexual for a long time 11:00 labels in the trans community 13:00 when and how it’s OK to ask what the transgendered story is; only OK to ask about genitals if the person is a potential partner 18:20 prejudice within the poly community 23:00 poly and kinky overlap; etiquette with trans folks in the poly community 28:00 using the wrong pronoun; rude outings
Check out his podcast, Young and Kinky on the 18-35-age kinksters
33:45 Wrap-up
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