Sexuality Happens

Carson, that sexy fox from Crash Pad as well as Lesbian Life: Real Sex San Francisco, has posted a call for help/thoughts/suggestion/conversation/action on the CPS forums. I’m really excited about some of the discussion this will foster.

My suggestion: ArtXXYZ – Queers in the arts.

Here is what she had to say:

Yo Crash Pad peoples and gender radicals. I’m posting this in hopes of harnessing some of the queer creativity that has a habit of exploding all over this website and forum. I work on a magazine that is in need of a new name, and I’d love your input.

The project is run by a small collective of feminist queers producing a magazine hitherto called Art XX- Women in the Arts. We’ve published a whopping one issue and already we are in the throes of “gender dystopia”! Salud!

We titled the magazine ArtXX Women in the Arts, wanting to make a strong statement about an underrepresented gender that crossed the lines of sexuality. We realized that we did so at the price of alienating members of our own community, and compromising our own theories and ideals on the fluidity of gender. We are a magazine for female bodied, female-identified, and trans artists and their (our) many genders- straight girls, femmes, femmebots, andros, fags, fag hags, fag daddies, unicorns, narwhals, etc, etc… In trying to find the words to describe the diversity that we are working to provide a space for, we realized that queer vocabulary is still so very limited. So, we figure it is time to start inventing. We’d love to get your help, input, and creativity in both developing a language that reflects our identities, as well as in finding us a new name.

We are toying with printing an article or a word/ phrase collage of all the different ideas this discussion generates.

Among some of the awesome feedback we’ve gotten so far, I really like what Shawn (who along with Jiz, aka Twincest, is featured in the our first issue. Actually their asses are on the back cover :) posted in reply to our twitter call out- “my vote = g3nder. 3 is a reference to “3rd sex” also a tech nerd subbing digits for letters. blending gender thru technology.”

Also, it has been brought to my attention that I failed to list several critical genders. Namely, lesbian separatist, dudebro, leather-hearted hussy, and bisexuelle… My bad. Oh, and of course the gaygoyles and fagosaurs.

We are trying to wrap this up and rechristen ourselves by Sunday the 22nd, but hope that this dialogue is ongoing. 

Can’t wait to see what folks come up with. You can check out our website at artxxmagazine.com. If you’re shy about posting, you can email edits.artxx@gmail.com.

Thanks! 

-Carson