#califia

[ileaveclawmarks]

The lesbian S/M safety manual. Ed. Pat Califia; 1988.

#leather dyke #lesbian s/m #pat califia #lesbian sadomasochism #lesbianism #leatherdyke

[pansyboybloom]

There is most certainly a connection between the values given between men and women in our culture, and the media's fascination with depicting trans women rather than trans men [...] Although the number of people transitioning in each direction is relatively equal these days, media coverage would have you believe there is a huge disparity in the populations of trans men and women. Jamison Green, a trans man who authored a 1994 report that led to the city of San Francisco's decision to extend its civil rights protections to include gender identity, once said this about the media coverage of that event:

"Several times at the courthouse, when the press was doing interviews, I stood by and listened as reporters inquired who wrote the report. And when I was pointed out to them as the author, I could see them looking right through me, looking past me to find the man in a dress who must have wrote the report and who they would want to interview. More than once, a reporter asked me incredulously 'You wrote the report?' They assumed that because of my 'normal' appearance, that I wouldn't be newsworthy."

Indeed. The media tend not to notice, or outright ignore, trans men because they are unable to sensationalize them the way they do trans women without bringing masculinity itself into question. And in a world where modern psychology was founded on the teaching that 'all little girls suffer from penis envy,' most people think striving for masculinity is a perfectly reasonable goal.

Author and sex activist, Patrick Califia, who is a trans man, addresses this in his 1997 book 'Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism'.

"It seems the world is still more titillated by a man who wants to be a woman than it is by a woman who wants to become a man. The first is scandalous, the latter is taken for granted. This reflects the very different levels of privilege men and women have in our society. Of course, women would want to be men, the general attitude seems to be, and of course, they can't, and that's that."

- Julia Serano (and quoted, Jamison Green and Patrick Califia) on the relationships between trans women and men's visibility in the media, as part of her essay, Skirt Chasers: Why the Media Depicts Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels, found in chapter 2 of her book, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Feminism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (2nd. Edition)

#ANYWAYS #im reading whipping girl and ohhhh my god #also if anything is wrong #this is me transcribing from an audio book and that is Not Easy #so forgive me o7 #also now i reaaaaally wanna read sex changes #julia serano #jamison green #patrick califia

[pretendpopstar]

#niki de saint phalle #Queen Califia's Magical Circle #pretend popstar #san diego #moon #luna #art #artwork #space #night sky #starry night

[stellamancer]

you know. i really love oat milk LMAO.

#hungry hungry niku #the thickness of almond milk and soy milk is too offputting for me #and i often forget about rice milk #so oat milk!!! #i'm still working my way through brands but #the only one i've ever disliked is califia farms #so far anyway

[dailysexfacts]

macho sluts by pat califia

#pat califia #leatherdyke

[morticious-delicious]

My sister has been trying to get in to see Queen Califias Magical Circle , an installation in a park in North County San Diego. Its open so sporadically that she missed it on every trip down here, and weather permitting, but she was determined. Its gated and guarded now due to vandalism (someone tried to STEAL a the several hundred pound egg fountain under the titular sculpture!) We finally got in this weekend and it was magical!

This artist, Niki de Saint Phalle (please look her up, I am watching a documentary on yt- tw SA tw guns tw Anxiety and Depression) had such vision, survived abuse and infidelity, the depression, her anxiety.. and is quickly becoming an inspiration.

#niki de Saint Phalle #Queen Califias Magical Circle #art #sculpture

[stijlw]

finished public sex: the culture of radical sex by pat califia

#upload #SCAN #pat califia #currently reading #READ april #kobo #book scan #e-reader

[ileaveclawmarks]

The Second Coming - A Leatherdyke Reader. Califia, Sweeney; 1996.

#leather dyke #lesbianism #nsft post #dyke nsft #lesbian nsft #the second coming - a leatherdyke reader #jc collins #pat califia

[pleasestopthese]

the dyke book continues to deliver. my soul is being healed by smut. thank you, smut and smut artists.

#the persistent desire #pat califia #the femme poem

[feministdragon]

(warning: extreme violence and torture descriptions)

I argue that Pat Califia’s The Lesbian S/M Safety Manual (1988) is a manual in self-annihilation, in extermination of lesbian culture, in parading pornography as freedom, just as repressive political regimes have talked of liberation when they have meant death. To reinforce this, let me cite another extract from Califia.

[Humiliation]. . .is the deliberate lowering of the bottom’s status to an eroticized, yet stigmatized, identity. This may include turning the bottom into: (1) an object or a machine, (2) an animal, (3) a child or baby, (4) a member of the opposite sex, (5) a sexual object or genital, (6) a servant or slave. Humiliation can also involve treating the bottom as a member of a racial or ethnic group, sexual orientation or socioeconomic class which the top pretends22 to resent, dislike etc. (Califia 1988, 52)

Sadomasochism is a form of consumerism of experience. In a similar way to that in which Western culture has appropriated the cultures of indigenous and non-Western peoples, the practitioners of S/M are appropriating the experiences of oppressed peoples who have been tortured by dictatorial governments or who have been slaves under racist regimes or the lesbians who are tortured by fundamentalist and militarized regimes. As Brennan (2003) has indicated, the only thing that all fundamentalists agree on is the importance of repressing women’s sexuality and punishing breaches of the heterosexual code.23 The practitioners of S/M turn an uncontrollable experience of torture into a game that can be stopped (but people undergoing real torture do not have the option of saying no).24 The “near death experience” of S/M can be read as just another consumerist game. The consuming of material goods has reached its limits, so instead S/M practitioners attempt to simulate death in the pursuit of yet another thrill. S/M is a luxury game. It is expropriation of experience. It is ultimately full of contempt for others. In a society in which torture can be described as “performative” or as “direct communication with Iraqi prisoners”25 and BDSM can be presented as a series of classes to those interested in “healing themselves”26 or simply interested in the experience of powerfulness, these are central questions of social health. Given that it is the marginalized, lesbians among them, who are most prone to being tortured, the issue of social health is an important indicator of levels of social justice in a society. When acts of torture and acts of “non-consensual consent,” as BDSM is described by Weiss (2005), are placed against the reality of the torture of lesbians, what statement is made about contemporary culture? Pornography is a way of making money out of torture, and it is appropriative. It is appropriative of lesbians who are tortured because they are lesbians; of lesbians who have been pushed off buildings in Iraq, falling to their death, because they are lesbians; of lesbians who are beaten and raped because they are lesbians; of lesbians who are whipped, whose hands are amputated, who are forced into unwanted marriages because they are lesbians; and of lesbians in most countries who are silenced because they are lesbians (Hawthorne 2004a; Hawthorne 2004b).27

Furthermore, if Weiss (2005) can argue (and her audience can feel comfortable applauding her arguments) that acts identical to torture–humiliation, violent penetration with objects, cutting off of clothes, bondage–are acceptable in a BDSM scene, and are deemed philosophically acceptable, where does the slide down the slippery slope begin and end? These are complex questions of morality. They concern issues around consent, power and lack of power, justice, and a disbelief in justice as central.

The effect of the acceptance of torturing acts is a de-moralizing of the culture. A demoralized person is one who cannot fight back, who has been kicked too many times. The effect results not from the nature of any one kick, but rather from the cumulative effect of multiple kicks, “a thousand small cuts” that leave the person too dispirited to make a stand. The demoralizing of a victim of torture is cumulative and the result of many humiliations, painful experiences, isolation, and dehumanizing acts. Such is the society in which we are living. Even those of us who are not consciously aware daily of the thousands of cuts are affected nevertheless.

Those who ignore and deny lesbian dignity are eventually affected too. Among feminists it is argued that acts of racism gnaw at the social fabric, create racialized violence (be it against diasporas and natives of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, or against indigenous peoples from the colonized world). From this perspective, sexualized violence against women–including lesbians–also tears apart the social fabric.

Each day they unstitch a new part of me. There’s the relentless beating. The reminders of the gun. My brain stalls each time I think of it. The pointedness of their violence is increasing. Velvet voice visits randomly. When I hear his footsteps, the fear rises like vomit. Today they had me spreadeagled on the floor. Face down. Urine filling my nostrils. He paced in a decreasing spiral shape. Laughing at our weighing of the spiral with such import. I’ll show you what a spiral’s for, he said. And at that he stepped onto my left hand. Get rid of the left hand, he said. I know you like language games. Sinister sister. At that he stepped onto my right hand. Rosie fingered dawn, you slut. He stepped and twisted his foot heavily over my fingers. No more fingersmithing for you. He stepped and twisted. Paced and stepped and twisted again. The bones broken. The fingers flat and useless just as he wanted. He always leaves me in pain. He always leaves and I’m wracked with sobbing. The horror of what he does. My fingers crushed like broken twigs. My hands rotting stumps. In Iran, I remember, they amputate the hands of lesbians. (Hawthorne 2004d, 48)

JOURNAL OF HATE STUDIES [Vol. 4:33 2005/06] THE TORTURE OF LESBIANS p43-44

link to pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1GElZx8ucmwIvl_Xxrskwyc7CAu96oaYr/view

#tw violence #tw rape #violence #rape #anti-bdsm #pat califia was a major force in undoing lesbian culture and lesbian community

[thechronicmasochist]

I want a book shelf dedicated to my queer collection where one shelf is like "straight books for queer people" (interview with a vampire) and another is "queer books for straight people" (fight club) and then one that's "queer books for queers" (stone butch blues, anything by alison bechdel) and one for my leather archives (patrick califia etc) and another for my hoard of polyamory representation books (iron widow, ethical slut) and I want them to be at eye level the minute people walk in my front door so they are kinda bullied into asking me about them so I can look them up and down and then point to the shelf I think best suits them or will be the most funny for them to peruse

#chaotic book club #book posting #unfortunately i have negative space for bookshelves right now so i must hold onto this dream while #amassing my collection #oh oh also im going to go get my copy of iron widow signed next week and im so fucking excited about it #if id had any balls at all id have gotten a califia book signed but unfortunately i wanted to look cool and not desperate

[harrelltut]

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#quantumharrelltech #harrelltut #kingtutdna #enqiback #ANU Atlantis #Queen Califia #MU:13 Occult Tech Illuminati #ANU 2023 NEW WORLD ORDER #oh law'd

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Thank you for the tag, @sanspatronymic!

Book Scavenger Hunt

A book that starts with S The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader by Pat Califia & Robin Sweeney

A book with birds on the cover Perfect Gallows by Peter Dickinson

A book with flowers on the cover 100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon by William L. Sullivan

A book that takes place at spring time Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald by Ron Carlson

Tagging @acrossthewavesoftime, @lacnunga, @phoenixfalls, @tgarnsl

#books #patrick califia #robin sweeney #peter dickinson #william l. sullivan #ron carlson #Sullivan is the premier hiking guide for this state #and that particular edition has been on so many hikes that it is falling apart #but we keep it for sentimentality's sake #even though we have since replaced it with a newer edition #and sanspatronymic #I feel compelled to mention that perfect gallows opens in a dovecote

[ibijau]

the cool thing about tidying/organising is finding stuff I thought I had lost

aka I can finally re-read Pat Califia’s “sex changes, the politics of transgenderism” which I remember picking up about ten years ago because  it was half price and I was vaguely intrigued/interested by the topic

and then it proceeded to blow my mind

#jau rants #I remember I had also picked up a book on the invention of heterosexuality as a concept #but that one is lost for good I think I lent it to someone and never got it back #it was very interesting too tho #but Pat Califia's book is one I kept telling myself I should buy again if I had really lost it