I had a freaking great time in LA. For those of you who hold the secret private gallery password (same as it was at Pride), you can lookit the photos!
http://techdonkey.com/elaine/gallery/brats-in-LA/?d=t
Forgot the password or want it? Drop me a line.
Lee Harrington D/s Intensive Oct 2 – 4 in Vancouver
Tickets for full weekend seats to this event are SOLD OUT. There is a waiting list. Contact !Kona (projects (at) nubianimp.com) directly to get on it.
Single tix for the Friday ONLY session w/Lee Harrington in Vancouver available online and at Little Sisters $30 each.
Please feel free to circulate this information
Event details online at http://NubianImp.com/projects/
!Kona & Elaine
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What’s Leather Got to Do With It? Leather Fetish, Sex and Soul
Spoken Word Participatory Lecture
Friday, Oct 2nd, 2009
The world of BDSM often speaks of Leather as an identity, or as shorthand for our passions, but what about leather itself? The hides of animals, our second skins, this material that once lived and breathed has inspired erotic explorers for generations… why? From tools of pain and pleasure to the wide varieties of clothing that wrap around our form and conform to our shape with time- we will examine our tough exteriors to find how leather fetish has inspired leather sex, and in turn, leather soul, identity and spirit… and the term “Leather Community†itself. Bring at least one piece of leather with you- be it a piece of your earned leathers if you come from that tradition, your favorite flogger, a tight pair of gloves, your favorite boots, your old friend of a belt, or something else to inspire yourself or others as part of this conversation towards understanding leather as more than a raw material.
Anyone got one of these kicking around, that I can borrow for a day? Mine got stolen on either the second or the third time my shed got broken into last year. (insert eyeroll here)
(The nifty compact kind don’t work on my tiny wee scooter wheels.)
An evening of LIVE readings of queer erotic fiction and poetry from some of Canada’s hottest writers!
(doors open at 11am, readings start promptly at 7:31!)
Admission by donation (Suggested: $5 and up)
Donations go directly to the performers!
181 Roundhouse Mews (foot of Davie)
http://elainemiller.com/queerotica/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=97833418902
Presented by Pride in Art (http://prideinart.ca/)
Produced by Elaine Miller and Afuwa Granger
http://elainemiller.com http://afuwa.com
Writers, I mean, readers:
(in no particular order)
Amber Dawn
Dane Mcfadhen
Meg Torwl
Stuart Blackley
Elaine Miller
Afuwa Granger
Tony Correia
River Light
Daniel Zomparelli
Martyn Dunn
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Bride of Pride is a BDSM/sex playparty for kinky women* into queer, woman-to-woman BDSM. Dress in whatever makes you feel good, bring your toys and your playpartners, and come join us! We encourage costumes and flights of fancy, but we won’t turn you away if you’re not in fetishwear! Just for fun, we’ll have a few special theme areas, like puppy play, and ageplay and wrestling space and more!
Nifty poster image, if you can’t see it here:
http://canadianmayhem.com/upload/canadianmayhem-brideofpride-web-2009.jpg
Today seems to be a day for remembering, and celebrating.
First the remembering:
Here’s a pic of my dad Jim Miller, taken in 2001 or so. He died in 2002, of kidney failure caused by diabetes. I was holding his hand as he went.
I still miss him every single day. He was a loving, simple, patient man, and throughout my life he taught me everything I know about kindness, and nothing that I know about cruelty. My Dad’s acceptance and love was always a constant to me — an emotional surety as strong as my understanding of the ground I stand on.
Happy Father’s Day, Dad. Wish I could tell you that in person.
Funny that I grew up to be a Daddy, too — albeit a wildly different kind.
So, to the two lovely brats who (as of last week) are each in possession of half of my green hanky — thanks for saying yes. You’ve made me a very happy pervert. And I’ll try to be the very best Daddy I can be.
Mayhem! in Xtra West
Oh, my, we did it!
Participants, look for an email coming soon, with a link to a survey so you can help us improve, and a bunch of info about how you can stay in touch.
We have many people to follow up with, and thank, and are all still reeling around with stunned and goofy grins. I have never done anything as intense in my whole entire crazy kinky life, as Mayhem!
Again in 2011, we’re thinking!
The pic is Xtra West’s Mayhem issue cover (thanks, Xtra West, for being our media sponsor!). Click to make it BIG!
I’m running down my to-do lists (Hint. Think: longer than my arm) for the upcoming Mayhem leatherwomen’s conference, and was struck by my own rather extreme mixture of exhilaration and trepidation as the event draws ever closer.
It’s kinda crazy to think about. We’ve put together a full-scale conference in just a hair under four months. We’re sold out. At over 200 participants, we’ll easily be the biggest leatherwomen’s event ever in Western Canada, and possibly in all of Canada. We’re sold out, did I mention? We have people coming from all over, and some crazy-ass plans for fun stuff over the weekend, and… wow, we’re a handful of leatherdykes and we’re actually doing this, so yay us, and yay all the lovely people who are coming from ALL OVER, who I can’t WAIT to see and meet and run around a party with.
So that’s the excitement.
And on the fear side, I can list the very same list.
I’m in mortal fear of having forgotten something Very Important. I’ve never done something of this scale and duration before, although I comfort myself that it can’t be more overwhelming than that party where I had 60 dykes in my tiny little house back in the early 2000′s. I mean, the venues are So Much Bigger. Right?
On the humourous side, I have lost one of my to-do lists, somewhere on my desk.
One of the items on my current to-do list: find that to-do list.
Speaking of which, I need to start checking things off again. What’s next?
- Elaine
Holy cripes, it’s here! It’s happening! Jeepers!
http://canadianmayhem.com
Look at all our lists! Look at everyone who’s pitching in to help! Woo! This is gonna be the biggest kinky women’s event in Western Canada EVER. Ain’t that neat?
- Elaine
Local folks (Vancouver) can pay in cash, in person. This is the last
in-person payment opportunity before registration closes April 30th!
Register fast — we’re juuuuuust about sold out!
Register yourself online first,
http://canadianmayhem.com/register
and then drop on by with your payment!
Currently, the sliding scale registration fee starts at $150, which gets
you this:
http://canadianmayhem.com/news/math
http://canadianmayhem.com/sections/whattodo
where??
Turks Coffee
1276 Commercial Drive (Commercial near Charles)
when???
Saturday, April 25th
10:30am — 12:30
who???
Elaine will be doing a Mayhem-sit-in, drinking tea, chatting with YOU,
and taking your registration fee! Look for the fat friendly futch with
the red streak in her black hair.
details???
- WeÂ’ll give you a receipt for cash or money orders, but not for cheques
(your cleared cheque is your receipt. Takes a few days).
- No credit card transactions in person in the coffee shop — you gotta
do those online.
- Just have questions? ThatÂ’s cool too. Elaine will answer everything
she can.
)))))))) GOT A MAYHEM QUESTION? (((((((((
I’m just one of the organizers, and I ain’t in charge of everything (oh, not by a long shot), so please please use the contact form on the Mayhem site so your question can get to the right person right away!
Depending on what you’re asking about, the person your message comes to might even be me!
http://canadianmayhem.com/contact/
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We’re doing it again! Many Vancouver folks have asked if they could pay in cash, in person.
Register yourself online first,
http://canadianmayhem.com/register
and then drop on by with your payment!
(Currently, the sliding scale registration fee starts at $110, which gets you this.)
where??
Turks Coffee
1276 Commercial Drive (Commercial near Charles)
when???
Saturday, April 4th
10:30am — 12:30
who???
Elaine will be doing a Mayhem-sit-in, drinking tea, chatting with YOU, and taking your registration fee! Look for the fat friendly futch with the red streak in her black hair.
details???
- We’ll give you a receipt for cash or money orders, but not for cheques (your cleared cheque is your receipt. Takes a few days).
- No credit card transactions in person in the coffee shop — you gotta do those online.
- Just have questions? That’s cool too. Elaine will answer everything she can.
- vendors and advertisers are welcome to drop in and do business, too!
My cats rock. They’re outgoing, opinionated, and chatty. They point their whiskers at me in a remarkably benevolent fashion. My day to day life resounds with the sound of cats purring . They have soft furry bellies. Mmm. Happiness and cats.
This year, Queerotica will be on Thursday, August 6th. I’m just sayin’.
More later, eh?
