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Sasha: STD fears and unionizing strip clubs

Dear Sasha,

I am 40, have been divorced for a few years and, apart from a LDR with a boy who is 25 that ended a year ago, have been very skittish about entering the dating world. I have zero interest in having a serious boyfriend, but as soon as I start thinking about one-night stands or FWB, all I can think about is how guys are walking disease factories who can't be trusted to tell the truth about being disease-free, and I chicken out of trying to mack on anyone.

As a result, I've had zero action for a year and a half.

The F Word

Burlesque: Part 1 in a 2 Part Series

February 5, 2011
| Hosts Meghan Murphy and Ariana Barer explore the contested but popular idea that burlesque is empowering for women. Featuring special guests and experts Crystal Precious and Mary Shearman.

39:03 minutes (35.76 MB)
The F Word

Burlesque: Part 2 in a 2 Part Series

February 7, 2011
| Hosts Meghan Murphy, Ariana Barer, and special guest Nicole Deagan explore, respond to and challenge arguments that burlesque is feminist or empowers women.

39:08 minutes (35.83 MB)
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Sasha: Men who don't want sex, and a eulogy for the late Will Munro

Dear Sasha,

I'm a guy in his mid-20s who has never gotten laid, and never seriously pursued it either.

I had romantic notions about how it should go down -- and was a bit naive about my bi tendencies, which threw me -- and just kept putting it off. I wanted to "invest" in a real moment with someone special. That's still true, but I'm also eager to finally just get down with someone. After all this time, I think I'd be going in with a lot of expectations. Even if I just had a random fling, I'd risk walking away feeling stupid, having built it up for so long...or having given up on the idea that I deserved to be with someone I knew was really "invested" in me.

Sister Spit -- The Next Generation

Oct 20 2009 - 12:00am

Location

Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor St. West just east of Lansdowne
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416-913-0461
43° 39' 30.2724" N, 79° 26' 32.3952" W

The Toronto Free Gallery is proud to be hosting a multimedia literary explosion of zinesters, fashion plates, novelists, performance artists, poets and fancy scribblers. A night of queertastic, female-centric brilliance!

On October 20, the legendary, raucous, rowdy performance gang Sister Spit - The Next Generation's van will unload in Toronto for a rare Canadian performance. The night will include; queer luminary Michelle Tea, hilarious literary force Beth Lisick, trans-licious performance artist Ben McCoy, graphic novelist extraordinaire Ariel Schrag, powerhouse poet Kirya Traber, photographer/myth-explorer Sara Seinberg, and world-traveling novelist Rhiannon Argo plus Toronto special guests.

Contact name: 
Aaron
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