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Not long ago, I signed up for a comics-making class. I’ve made some comics in the past and had several published, and I thought it would be a good idea to have an outlet for expression that wasn’t just words. I’ve always made comics by taking photos and using digital means to manipulate them into what looked more like art. This time I’m going to try actually drawing. Unfortunately, I’m not very good at it. I’m good at the words, and the storytelling, but my art is not strong. It’s not even close. I’ve made a few ahead of time, and I bought some colored pencils. So far, they’re pretty ugly. Maybe that’s the point. Maybe that’s what you tolerate.
Enjoy my work? Buy "The Tumor." It’s been called "a masterpiece of short fiction."
The student-run paper of my alma mater, UC Berkeley, has a column about why you should pay for porn. The author's argument? Her friend works in porn and wants to get paid for her work.
Electra is a sweet, slightly nerdy Northwestern undergraduate student majoring in linguistics and physics, as well as a hopeful UC Berkeley transfer student. To her, working in porn is “something between performance and a really tedious office job.” While the cameras are rolling, she plays up any pain or pleasure, and most of the time, she’s already on the edge of her boundaries. At the same time, she keeps a mental tally of just how many minutes are left in the scene, how many spankings or shocks are left to go (she mostly works in bondage-themed porn), and how damn uncomfortable the hard floor feels on her knees.
[The Daily Californian]
I'm super excited to share that I got accepted to THREAD at Yale.
"THREAD at Yale, which debuts this summer, June 7-10, 2015, is a gathering of professional journalists and storytellers that does not care whether you work in print, radio, podcasting, or some form we haven’t even thought of yet.
At this program, a small group of storytellers from print, radio, and other media will gather for three days and nights to learn from masters in the field. And from each other. It’s not a conference, and it’s not a workshop.
It’s both. Maybe it’s neither."
I'll be working on a new piece of longform journalism while I'm there.
Buy THE TUMOR: "This is one of the weirdest, smartest, most disturbing things you will read this year."
Dr. Jason Winters, a professor at the University of British Columbia, teaches the very popular, sex-focused PSYCH 350: "The Psychological Aspects of Human Sexuality."
The course has a companion blog, which mentions several projects I've done, Letters from Johns and Letters from Working Girls.
His past research includes a "'boner-measuring' phase," during which "[I measured] sex response in sex offenders."
[The Ubyssey]
