Crossposted from dancingbull.net.
This year, we broke the South Bay Trans Day of Visibility into two events; an afternoon event, with all of the education and discussion panels, the art, computer games, etc etc. Some cool moments:

* Hearing two old high school friends found each other!

* Playing a friend’s video ‘game,’/installation and realizing I’ ( Read more... )

Crossposted from dancingbull.net.
Friends of mine have edited and just released a new essay collection, “Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism.” It’s available as a free download, or order-able printed book, at http://cerridwen.st4r.org/ ( Read more... )

Crossposted from dancingbull.net.
Beautiful Boxer is a beautiful film, from lush foggy mornings to flashing legs in bright shorts in kickboxing arenas. It’s also difficult to watch at times; the utterly solo pain of not being able to be who you are, of how stereotypes are used for money-making, of simple family struggles. This is the story of ( Read more... )

was unexpectedly good! Yes a kid's movie, but not a stupid American kid's movie, if you know what I mean. :-) It has humor, but it's not a comedy. It's perhaps a quest story. It follows a young boy who lives with his uncle (who is very afraid of Viking raiders, and is making a great wall) in a monastery. A monk comes, bearing the Book of Iona ( ( Read more... )

Went to a splendid 70 minutes (no break) play Saturday night, at the Off Market theater in San Francisco; http://www.cafearts.com/santaland2006/Read more... )

Oddly, I find myself remaining slightly disturbed by the film *Barnyard*. I watched it this past weekend. It's a basic kids animated film about growing up and assuming responsibility. It had a few moments which made me laugh out loud, and was otherwise pretty standard American "shrug" kids fare ( Read more... )

Due to a friend's connection with a promoter, I got to see *Eragon* last night.

It was "ok". A kinda Saturday matinée movie if such were still made.

( Review with spoilers. )

Last night I went to smOdyssey's "south bay premier" of a new BDSM documentary, *Vice and Consent*. The filmmaker, Howard Scott Warshaw was in attendance. After the showing, many of the movie watchers stuck around til pretty darn late to ask questions and hear more stories (two of the film's interviewees came as well). Mr. Warshaw said one of his ( Read more... )