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04 Jul Recycling Sexual Energy for Health, Empowerment and Community

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Pedazo de taller en Londres el próximo 14 de julio. De 10:00 – 16:00h en Moving Arts Base, 134 Liverpool Rd, London, N1 1LA. Lo imparte Caroline Ophis, mi maestra de Taoísmo y Tantra en Londres este pasado invierno. La tía es una genia. La amo. Para apuntarse escribid aquí: pleasureismedicine (arroba) gmail.com

Since 1997 I have been asking the questions : What were women’s sacred practices with each other, and did practices exist that didn’t centre around traditionally acceptable childbirth stuff? What spiritual energetic practices were available for women tuned into sacred sexuality who are not meant to be playing the gendered role of Shakti to a male Shiva? And how can we honour people whose sensitivities and sexualities are better served through shamanic work that doesn’t involve people of the binary opposite – whether that is a lifestyle/ spiritual choice or a temporary period of self questing?
Whilst having an instinctual knowing of the answers to these questions, I didn’t feel that was enough – so I have spent many years researching and training in different modalities and cross cultural traditions.

In this exploratory workshop, and the first of its kind, I would like to share some of the learnings and practices I have trained in and have found deeply transformative by engaging with ancient Taoist and neo western tantric practices through an enquiring and open mind.

I will be inviting people to share the ecstatic practices of sound and meditation, movement and laughter to create a conscious and safe space for the purpose of pleasure and heart -opening compassion, health and community building.
I hope to also facilitate an awaking of the wisdom we all hold in our bones.
This is thus an introductory day for women of all sexualities, and transgendered people that this resonates with that offers cosmic and bio-spiritual ways of using creative energy for personal and planetary well-being, empowerment and healing. Plus a sprinkle of sex education, dolphin tantra and pussy toning along the way. Fun, subversive, irreverent, informed.

Please email [email protected] to register your place or for more information.

Caroline Ophis has been facilitating events and teaching esoteric sound and meditation on the diy alternative scenes since 1997. A health activist, Taoist practitioner, mystical feminist and musician with many years of training and experience in biospiritual traditions.

27 Jun Censuras a estas alturas y con la que está cayendo

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El Ayuntamiento de Tarragona ha vetado recientemente de la pantalla de la Tabacalera el anuncio sobre la exposición que la artista Mireia Sallarès está realizando, desde el pasado 18 de mayo y hasta el próximo 28 de julio, en el Centre d’Art Contemporani, situado en el Moll de Costa y que está financiado –en gran parte– por el propio Consistorio.

La promoción de la muestra, que estuvo algunos días activa, se centraba en uno de los largometrajes de Sallarès, Las Muertes Chiquitas, que tiene como hilo argumental el orgasmo y que este fin de semana se podrá ver, tanto el sábado como el domingo, a partir de las siete de la tarde en el CaixaForum de la calle Colom. Como se puede apreciar en las imágenes que ilustran esta página, el anuncio destacaba frases de mujeres mexicanas que hablaban abiertamente sobre este concepto de la sexualidad.

Puedes leer la noticia al completo aquí. Qué triste que esta frase maravillosa cause descontento. Así van las cosas, qué mierda de sociedad la nuestra, la verdad.

03 Jun Me acabo de leer Furores Íntimos

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El libro empieza con la descripción de una super mamada, lo que me puso de bastante mal humor y me dio ganas de aparcar el libro. Pero seguí. Y me quedé enganchada a la historia de una mujer llamada Elisabeth, que comparte en estas páginas sus furores íntimos con una sinceridad apabullante. Su rechazo a la monogamia y su búsqueda de alternativas, su complicada relación con la maternidad, su complicada relación consigo misma, su basura psíquica, su terapeuta, sus rollos. Todo a lo bestia, sin filtros. Ahora quiero regalárselo a todas mis colegas. Porque las cosas son complicadas, joder, y no es fácil para nadie hacer las cosas bien. Os transcribo un cacho:

En efecto, éste es el mayor problema de nuestra vida conyugal: los desequilibrios psíquicos que arrastro. Quise que él tuviera una fortaleza sobrehumana y no hiciera todas las cochinadas que suele hacer la gente. Pensé que, ya que sustituye a mis padres, también ha de ser perfecto. Si lo controlo no me abandonará. Y luego va y me pone los cuernos con un calcetín. Se folla el calcetín en vez de follarme a mí. ¿Por qué no me pregunta si tengo ganas? Ya sé por qué no me pregunta. Porque suelo estar deprimida, y cuando no lo estoy, soy agresiva. Uno no tiene ganas de seducir a una mujer así. Resulta más atractivo un calcetín apestoso. Era uno de los suyos, no de los míos, nisiquiera eso.

12 May Top 50 Myths About Being Transgender

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1. Being transgender is a choice.
2. Gender and sexuality are the same thing.
3. All trans people are men in dresses.
4. Trans people can’t have families.
5. Trans people are just transvestites.
6. All trans people are really gay.
7. All trans men are butch/extremely masculine and all trans women are extremely feminine.
8. All trans women have breast implants.
9. Trans women are all sex workers.
10. Trans women transition just to have access to more sex partners.
11. All trans people are male-to-female; female-to-male trans people don’t exist.
12. All trans people want surgery.
13. You aren’t a real trans person if you don’t want surgery.
14. Being a trans person is extremely rare (see Prevalence).
15. You aren’t really a trans person until you start HRT.
16. All trans people are sex addicts.
17. All trans people are interested in sex.
18. Trans women transition because they weren’t successful as a male.
19. Trans men transition because they weren’t successful as a female.
20. Trans women want equality just so they can sneak into women’s bathrooms or other women’s-only areas.
21. If you don’t feel like your gender was wrong from a very early age, you aren’t a real trans person.
22. It’s always just a phase. It can be cured by religion, drugs, peer pressure, etc.
23. Everyone is trans in the same way.
24. Trans men transition to get male privilege and trans women try to gain female privilege while retaining male privilege.
25. People are trans solely because of poor parental role models.
26. People are trans because they aren’t religious enough.
27. Your outer shell defines who you are.
28. Your genitalia define who you are.
29. Being transgendered automatically means going to Hell.
30. All trans people think/act the same way.
31. Trans people aren’t “real” men/women.
32. Only rich, privileged people are transgender.
33. Trans people are protected under federal anti-discrimination laws in the U.S.
34. Trans people can be cured by conversion therapy.
35. Gender is just an abstract concept so transition is not necessary and always misguided.
36. Feminists who believe in deconstructing gender will always support trans women.
37. Cis-gendered people won’t keep moving the goalposts as soon as you reach them.
38. People who want GRS are simply amputation fetishists.
39. If you want GRS, this is a type of self-harm or self-mutilation, removing “healthy” tissue.
40. Trans people are just like anorexics – they are simply deluded about their own bodies being “wrong”.
41. It is okay to allow transphobia and cissexism to continue because being trans is somehow wrong/evil/sinful.
42. Psychology invented transexualism as a way to make queer and gender non-conforming people into straight, conforming people.
43. Being in an unaltered body is more moral than being in an altered one.
44. Being trans is just like being schizophrenic – they are both just hallucinations and delusions, so transition should be prohibited.
45. Gender is either masculine or feminine; trans people are just confused between the two.
46. There are no religions which accept being trans.
47. Teens and younger people are not old enough to know their gender identity.
48. Trans people are deceiving others about their “true” gender.
49. Your sex can be clearly defined by your chromosomes and/or hormones.
50. Transsexual, transgender, transvestite and intersex are all the same thing.

09 Abr Algunos apuntes para una tecnología transfeminista, por Lucía Egaña Rojas

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Lo que llamo “competencia de pollas” es, en ámbitos tecnológicos, una práctica tan habitual que ya está naturalizada (como el “lust for results”). En la competencia de pollas no importa qué haces con la tuya sino qué tamaño tiene y cuánto se tarda en ponerse dura. Es un asunto de efectividad y presencia desde una sola óptica. En la competencia de pollas no califica nada que no sea polla y de carne (nada que no sea un gadget, un artefacto, una artilugio, una máquina, nada que no tenga al menos un circuito integrado, una cpu, un código informático). En la competencia de pollas no califican los procesos, ni las observaciones, ni las narrativas, ni los sentidos. Se trata de una dinámica cosificante y material, y en cierto punto de un aberrante escencialismo tecnológico. La competencia de pollas es, como su nombre lo indica, un desfile de capacidades cosificadas donde eventualmente ganaría una de las expuestas (y aquí “ganar” se incrementa en su posibilidad con maquinarias disponibles, accesos a cacharros, en definitiva, con la propiedad privada). La “competencia de pollas” NO sirve como metodología para aprender algo, sino sólo para admirar cosas. Es una dinámica basada en la propiedad (“mira qué guapo MI cacharro”) y por ende esta práctica queda excluida de las que enunciaremos como tecnotransfeministas.

Puedes leer el fantástico artículo de Lucia aquí.