Things are slowly settling down. My partner has been extremely supportive and I've been seeing a lot of friendly concern and support from friends as well. Even from the people I am not exactly close to ( Read more... )

The Velvet's history as narrated by Lolotehe (early August '11 also being the time I joined the club)

Also: an article in BOSL (April '13)

Living in the element of facts is made possible by language ( Read more... )

The following is written by Lorna Volitant, a document that needs to remain, as part of a dynamic and necessarily fragile archive.

"The story of Jessi Gladstone and I, as told to Paula Bonhomme.

I met jessi sometime after january 15th 2007 when my SL account was created.
She was an "exotic" dancer in a club I wandered into on my first day. I met a ( Read more... )

These are extracts from Lorna Volitant's SL blog, which she kindly allowed me to publish here. Because it's no longer in existence, because some things remain, because roots go deep ( Read more... )

“The first time he told me about his feelings of dying young, he also told me that if anything would ever happen to him in RL, he would be heart broken if I never heard from him again and I would have to go on wondering all my life what had happened to him. He said he needs someone he trusts to notify me if he passed away, and the go-to guy in this ( Read more... )

I’m publishing the following with the permission of the resident Siory Koray. It’s her story. Thank you Siory. Someone quoted Robert Lanza to me recently: “Justice is built into the fabric of nature. Make no mistake about it: it will be you who looks out the eyes of the victim. Or you can be the recipient of kindness-whichever you choose.” I may ( Read more... )