I’m gonna be a pinup girl!!! :) Brainchild of that sexy woman Tess over at Urban Gypsy [NSFW], the NYC Sex Bloggers 2009 Calendar Project brings together twelve of New York’s most dynamic sex positive girlfolk — writers, sex educators, filmmakers, and ordinary women — to support Audacia Ray’s Sex Work Awareness. What’s SWA? Glad you asked:
In case anyone was wondering, no, I’m not a sex worker. The twelve folks involved in the NYC Sex Bloggers 2009 Calendar Project are Audacia Ray, Desiree, Diva, Elizabeth Wood, Jamye Waxman, Lux Alptraum, Mariella, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Riese, Sinclair Sexsmith, Tess Danesi and me. Our reasons for getting excited about participating are as diverse as we are, likely ranging from “I heart sex work” to “I just wanna wear glitter and pasties!!”
I’m taking part because I think it will be fun to be a calendar girl. I’ve always been a fan of 1940s African American pin up art. Variations of the mammy archetype reigned (reigns?) in pop culture for such a long time and limited perceptions about brown-skinned women’s beauty. So, when the pin up era arrived, timeless beauties like Eartha Kitt, Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne popped up in wartime films, advertisements and magazine covers, it was like a mass media declaration that brown-skinned women are sexy, desirable and beautiful, too. (By the way, ditto for Italian Vogue’s recent all-black issue.)
I’m THRILLED to be part of the NYC Sex Bloggers 2009 Calendar Project. Poses in the limited edition calendars will be “fun and flirty and burlesque themed, with no graphic nudity. Think costumes, corsets, pasties and g-strings.” Additional details are below:
NYC Sex Bloggers 2009 Calendar Project
http://sexbloggercalendar.wordpress.com/
Cost: $30. See website for details.
Buy a calendar today!! Big drippy kisses to Tess Danesi (for organizing everything!!!), fellow calendar girls Audacia Ray, Desiree, Diva, Elizabeth Wood, Jamye Waxman, Lux Alptraum, Mariella, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Riese, Sinclair Sexsmith photographer Stacie Joy, graphic designers Sinclair & Jack and sponsors/saints/supportors/sexy people: Edenfantasys, Njoy, Sliquid, Vergenza, The Slipper Room, FreeFoods NYC, Good Vibrations, OhMiBod, JustinCase, AAG, Catalina, Jack, Calico.
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Photo credit: Wartime image appears online at the The Nation Archives page “Pictures of African Americans During World War II“
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Thanks for this amazing post.
So much fun with you last night. I’m glad you’re my official boob fluffer!
will you be wearing green…..
lamesabassman……… Bravo….. FBC…. Bravo
Tess: Uh, “boob fluffer”? I’m sure there’s a good story behind *that*.
Actually, I’m a sex worker. I always have to work really damned hard to get sex.
dont we all….. Mr.D…… dont we all..
lamesabassman….. got to know when to hold them… know when to fold them….
P.S. ….. FBC… do you know that your car is still parked at Nerve….
lamesabassman……. mad love there……..
Ummmm….am I missing something, or did the video editor–and Sex Work Awareness, by letting this pass–forget to put the name of the African American woman who spoke at the end of the clip? I would have liked to know who she was just as I knew who the others were–and not just that her Black face and voice is showing how “diverse” Sex Worker Awareness is.
All right, I just perused every blog of the women who are being featured for this calendar project (all new to me), and you are my fav pin up.
From TBK, a sex blogger in the midwest xoxo
@ Tess: No prob, babes! Thanks for the amazing cleavage.
@ lamesabassman: Not sure what I’ll wear. I sooooo wanted to wear this random army uso outfit I stumbled upon on the net, but it was too expensive.
@ Baba Doodlius: Oh, there’s a GREAT story behind *that*.
@ The Cruel Secretary: I’ll ask about that / bring that up.
@ The Beautiful Kind: I love Midwesterners!! I’m originally from the Midwest. :)
I’ll try to put this to good use immedieatly.
“Not sure what I’ll wear. I sooooo wanted to wear this random army uso outfit I stumbled upon on the net, but it was too expensive.”
Does it show a lotta skin? If so, and a bunch of us chipped in….,
how far would you go?
Tim M
got Black Card… will travel…. anywhere and underwrite anything.. for you…. FBC.
lamesabassman…….. got game…..
Tim M: Though I appreciate the gesture, the outfit (http://is.gd/2GcC) was more than $450!! :( My budget is soooo not stable or large enough to justify spending that kind of money on a costume I’ll wear for 1 photo shoot and, maybe, a private striptease for a lover and a Halloween or two.
lamesabassman: You’re funny. :)
a private striptease for a lover……. gee … what a lucky guy…. WOW…. and as a
Halloween gig…… I would give you all my M&M’s….. except the green ones…..
lamesabassman…… am serious as a heart attack….. no green ones….
I am soooo jealous. Absolutely GREEN with envy! Ever since I can remember I wanted to be in Playboy. But alas, I will NEVER be 120 lbs. Ah well, perhaps one day i’ll do my own damn calendar!
You are right — it would be a great outfit (for all three of those occasions). Hey, guys — maybe we should have a fundraiser to get Twanna the costume ;)
with a name like kali….. I’d buy all you can print…
lamesabassman……. and if you are wearing green…. hellacool.
P.S. Tim M ……. you can count me in……
lamesabassman……… big time…..
From all us Sex workin divas we say *THANK YOU* for your support!
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