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- Sunday morning poetry. The most recent episodes of CA Conrad's Jupiter 88 are so good! Camille Roy & my gf EC Crandall http://t.co/usYEMD6B 05:37:07 PM February 19, 2012 from TweetDeck
- The Komen Foundation is nuts @joanwalsh is right, it's destroyed its brand. Now it stands for helping some women and sacrificing others. 03:04:48 PM February 01, 2012 from TweetDeck
- Have we invented a drinking game for the Iowa caucuses yet? Because I'm bored. 03:20:50 AM January 04, 2012 from TweetDeck
- The inordinate number of cialis commercials on msnbc makes me think I'm not their target demographic 01:30:42 AM January 03, 2012 from TweetDeck
- RT @PhinLi, Hey NYC folk @JessicaHalem @kellidunham @dianacage at 1 swell performance & party @DixonPlace! Details: http://t.co/13J0KC8L 06:49:08 PM December 30, 2011 from TweetDeck
Author Archives: dianacage
Ice-Age Porn
One of the oldest and most famous depictions of the sexualized female body is The Venus of Willendorf. Dating back to 22,000 BCE, the Venus of Willendorf is a limestone carving about four inches high of a naked woman with … Continue reading
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Eros the Bittersweet
I asked my gf to talk to me about the erotic and she handed me Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet. It was perfect, actually, and allowed me to think about the erotic as a combination of love and frustration, something … Continue reading
God Loves the Gays
That’s what they always said on Pride day in my hometown, San Francisco. Summer weather in San Francisco is awful, but the last Sunday in June is always glorious. My girlfriend and everyone I know is in New York today, … Continue reading
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Writing About Orgasms
I’m finally getting close to being finished with a new book, A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Ecstasy. It will be published by Seal Press in January of next year. I was teaching and commuting between Philly and Brooklyn too much … Continue reading
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So far 2011 is reminding me alot of 1991
Holly Hughes sent me this rant last week and it’s so awesome I had to share it. It’s also posted on Velvetpark By Holly Hughes So far 2011 is reminding me alot of 1991. Twenty years ago, a series of … Continue reading
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The Dangers of Brunch
Have you read The Ethical Slut? It’s the bible of the polyamory set written by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy. It’s a classic and a must-read if you want to date, or even just sleep, around. I read it years … Continue reading
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Is it Sex?
I like when lovers write to me. Not love letters, those are usually terrible. I like to look at four-letter-words and know that someone was thinking about me as they were writing them. Reading is a sex act. Think about … Continue reading
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Costello and Tagliapietra
I noticed designers Jeffery Costello and Robert Tagliapietra themselves before I saw their designs. A 2005 photo of the flannel clad, hairy bear couple in Vogue magazine caught my queer eye. Gay male designers are nothing new in fashion, but … Continue reading
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Dear Diana: Lesbian Emotions
How can one avoid lesbian relationships that are hard work emotionally? Is there even such a thing as a committed lesbian relationship that isn’t hard work emotionally? Listen, there’s no way to be intimately involved with another person and not … Continue reading
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Dear Diana: Jackie Chan
Is it weird that last night I dreamed I was Jackie Chan and I was having phenomenal sex with the hottest woman EVER? Btw, I’m not a J.C. fan. Last night I dreamed I was evacuating a menagerie of cute … Continue reading
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