Sexy Spring V Schedule
Final Schedule (6/10/2008 edition)
Sexy Spring will be in Ford Hall on the UMN East Bank Campus. See “practical information” for location details!
pdf version of the final schedule
Friday, June 13, 2008
Tretter Collection Tour
Tretter Collection Tour — leaves Ford at 12:30
The Tretter Collection is one of the largest collections of GLBTQ artifacts in the world, and Jean Tretter himself will give Sexy Springers a tour. Travel deep into the earth below the West Bank to see queer artifacts from around the world.
Note: We will be walking over to Anderson Library, a walk of about .5 miles. If that is a concern, feel free to meet us there in the Anderson Lobby.
Workshops
| Room | 5-6:30 pm |
| 127 | Hella Nervous |
| 110 | A Look at the Experiences and Perceptions of Relationships What Happens when Disability is Thrown into the Mix? |
| 130 | Kinky Round-Robin |
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Kinky Kalisthenics
Join us at 9:30 for snacks and Kinky Kalisthenics, to get your blood moving!
Sexy Staffer Training
Join Garrett and friends for Sexy Staffer / Vibes watcher training at 9:30
Workshops
Sexy Spring Cabaret!
Join us at Intermedia Arts for the Fairy Tails Cabaret! Doors at 7, show is at 8pm.
After the Cabaret…
Rock your Booty at the Sexy Spring V dance party!
10 pm @ The Bedlam Theatre, 1501 S. 6th St. West Bank, Mpls
18+
Sliding scale donation or free entry with Fairy Tale or Pandora’s Fury Ticket
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Kinky Kalisthenics
Join us at 10:30 for snacks and Kinky Kalisthenics, to get your blood moving!
Sexy Staffer Training
Join Garrett and friends for Sexy Staffer / Vibes watcher training at 10:30
Workshops
Workshop Descriptions
“I’m with Einstein” : Geek Fetishes Revealed
Presented by: Jenny K.
Sunday, Session: 2, Room 115
A moderated discussion attempting to explain, define and exalt, “the geek,” tailored for the geek and geek-lover alike. Whether you are a geek, nerd, dweeb, dork, spaz, hot scientist or just clueless, or just lust heavily over this breed… this is the discussion for you. Come ready to share your stories about SAT scores, rare bike parts, rare comics, rare 10″s, quartz spectrophotometer vials, agglutinative languages, grad school, nanotube elevators to the moon, number theory, gecko bandages, lacking the ability to make small talk, Cerasus fruits, or any other lovely geek-lore you love or love to love in others. We want to know why this fetish is so common. And we want to hear what it’s like to be on the receiving end of this particular type of attention!
A Look at the Experiences and Perceptions of Relationships
What Happens when Disability is Thrown into the Mix?
Presented by: Corbett Laubignat, Nick Wilkie, Ashley Groshek
Friday, Session: 1, Room 110
In a engaging open conversation, we will discuss the challenges, perceptions and stigmas related to entering and sustaining a intimate relationship when one person has a disability and the other does not
This discussion will cover both hetero and homosexual relationships as well as perspectives from both people with and without a disability
C’mon Baby, Light My Fire: Playing with fire for sensual pleasure
Presented by: Charlie, Jeff, and Garrett
Saturday, Session: 2, Room 110
Join Charlie, Jeff, and Garrett for an introduction to fireplay — using fire, flame, and heat as sensation tools. We’ll discuss and demonstrate safety practices in detail, as well as various techniques and implements. If time permits and at the discretion of the workshop facilitators, participants may be able to practice what they learned.
Hella Nervous
Presented by: Micah and Friends
Friday, Session: 1, Room 127
Is your shyness or self consciousness cramping you sex life? Do you run the other way when you’ve got a crush? You’re not alone! Join Micah and friends for this facilitated discussion and skillshare specially designed for shy kids, introverts, and nervous wrecks. We’ll talk about how getting hella nervous makes sex and dating tricky, and then a whole roomful of other kids like you will share our best tips and tricks for getting out there and getting it on!
Facilitation note: this will be a shy kid-positive space! Nobody will be forced to talk, but we’ll do our best to make this workshop one where you’ll feel like speaking up!
I’m Too Sexy for This Workshop
Presented by: Micah and Friends
Saturday, Session: 3, Room 130
Ah, Minnesota: land of 10,000 people who can’t take a compliment
Giving and accepting compliments and other positive feedback is vital to flirting, sex, and relationship, and how refusing to own or acknowledge your hotness can devastate not only your self esteem, but your sex life, too
This will be an interactive workshop where we will talk about and practice self confidence and self positivism specific to flirting, compliments, and dating
We’ll practice giving and getting different kinds of compliments: plutonic, flirting, genuine, polite, and many more. We will also talk about assertiveness and how to deal with awkward compliments or come-ons that totally miss the mark
This workshop will be explicitly body positive, and we’ll address trans bodies, fatphobia, & race, gender, and class stereotypes, and other body/identity topics as they affect the come-ons and compliments we get
Walk out of this workshop ready and able to let the world tell you how hot you are, and believe it
NOTE: shy kids welcome and encouraged!
Kids In Community
Presented by: Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr
Saturday, Session: 1, Room 127
Forum for pregnant, planning, seasoned parents, childcare providers, partners of parents, and our allies. How can we identify and create resources for parenting in our communities? This workshop will address both the emotional and physical needs of families. Focus on family & reproductive justice. Inclusive of queer, young, poor, artist, activist, single, and people of color
Kinky Round-Robin
Presented by: Local Kinky Folk, and YOU
Friday, Session: 1, Room 130
Bring your toys, bring your imagination, and get your kink on. All questions will be answered! See the wide range of local kinky skills. Watch death-defying improvisation as presenters from from the lesson plan you give them!
Make Your Own Sex Toys
Presented by: The Pomegranate Health Collective
Sunday, Session: 2, Room 110
We will talk about how to safely make many different kindsof sex toys from recycled, free, or cheap materials, and other household objects. We will have materials for a variety of projects that participants can make and take home, along with some other demonstrations of project ideas. Some projects include bike-tube floggers and other bondage devices, hand-sewn strap-on harnesses, rope-tying tricks, and a variety of easy-to-make masturbation toys.
Mingling Disability and/or Aging with Dating, Romance, Relationships, and Sexuality
Presented by: Lance Hegland
Saturday, Session: 1, Room 110
This workshop will be a very informal and general open discussion among participants of dating, romance, relationship, and sexuality topics in light of disability and/or aging. This workshop will be a perfect chance for individuals experiencing various effects of disability and/or aging, past/present partners, family, friends, colleagues, and professionals to share their experiences and knowledge. Equally important, this workshop will offer an excellent opportunity for the general public — individuals who do not experience, or have little familiarity with, the effects of disability or aging as well as potential future dates, lovers, and partners — to share their curiosities, questions, or concerns. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to, common effects, challenges, myths, stereotypes, prejudices, solutions, resources, strategies, techniques, and assistive technology.
Outside Your Gender
Presented by: Brooke
Saturday, Session: 1, Room 130
Come play with gender in a safe, playful, active environment. Everyone has habits, so break out of your ruts, and explore some different gender expressions!
Owning Your Pleasure
Presented by: Garnet Joyce
Sunday, Session: 2, Room 127
Participants will sit in a circle in order to better facilitate discussion. Discussion will be about the importance of owning one’s pleasure and how the responsibility for achieving pleasure is all our own. This discussion will be about the importance of masturbation and figuring out our own bodies as well as learning to ask for what we want from our partners. We will also discuss the goals of sex and why orgasms are wonderful, but they’re not the only part of sex.
Revolution in Reproductive Health
Presented by: Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr
Saturday, Session: 2, Room 127
What should we do if Roe v Wade falls? Can we do our own abortions? Should we? Is birth control a part of consent? How can we access the services we need? Is there such a thing as a free vasectomy? Does natural family planning really work? How to teach your friends to become condom experts in 5 min. How do I know if I have an STD? Where can I go? What diseases & infections are prevalent in our community
Sacred Sexual Healing
Presented by: Steve Anderson and Candessa Hadsall
Saturday, Session: 2, Room 115
Sexual energy is some of the most powerful and evocative energy we run in our beings, and yet it’s also one of the most protected and shut-down aspects of our being in modern society. Tantric teachings make the connection between the vibrant, creative Earth energies in our lower chakras and the insight and connection to spirit in our upper chakras. Sacred sexual healing, as practiced by temple healers (Dakas and Dakinis) in the modern world, works to reconnect us with both Heaven and Earth. It provides a space for releasing emotional, physical and energetic blocks, allowing our divine nature to flow upwards, downwards,
throughout our bodies, and in connection with others. This workshop will present a brief overview of sacred sexual healing in America today, including some of the techniques and principles used. We will conclude with a “puja”, a (clothed, safe, consensual) group experiential exercise.
Safer Sex, Safer Toys: Making Safer and Sexier Decisions with Your Sex Toys
Presented by: Elliot Fukui & Clare Jacky (Educators from Smitten Kitten
Saturday, Session: 1, Room 115
Many of the industry’s most popular sex toys are toxic, made from unstable, porous jelly rubber. These products degrade over time, leaching chemicals into our bodies, are impossible to clean, and have been shown to contain carcinogens. The workshop will cover the dangers of these toxic toys, the plenitude of alternatives and their benefits, and give insight into the pleasure and fun that can be had with a collection of sex toys. Smitten Kitten Educators approach these workshops in a sex positive manner, open to a respectful and inclusive discussion of the subject area.
Sex & the Streets: Organizing for the RNC
Presented by: The North Star Health Collective / Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr
Sunday, Session: 1, Room 115
What: Interested in being a safer-sex trainer? Distributing thousands of condoms? Networking with local organizations? Talking about consent
Organize for the streets! How can we set the stage for a safe & positive movement this summer? The North Star Health Collective is doing street medic care for the thousands of activists who are coming to protest the Republican National Convention September 1-4 in St Paul. Discuss strategies and brainstorm ideas for radical street health care! Let’s work together to create a safer-sex & consent oriented future– from Sexy Spring to Sexy Summer
Who: The North Star Health Collective includes health care workers, students and community activists committed to creating a meaningful response to the Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul September 1-4, 2008. We will coordinate and provide health care services, resources, and training to ensure the safety of our community - the weeks before, during, and after the RNC. Thousands of community members and families are expected to attend protests against the RNC. It is all of our responsibility to make the RNC protests safer for everyone
We believe in a broad definition of health that includes human dignity and rights for all. We reject the idea that health care should be distributed based on ability to pa
Sexy Spring Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society
Presented by: Amanda Nyren
Sunday, Session: 1, Room 110
The Sexy Spring Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society is envisioned as a modern, revolutionary take on the “sewing circle” where people of all craft persuasions and all genders are invited to create, share and talk in an open and informal safer space. Pervy projects, naughty knitting and home cooking are definitely welcomed as are folks that just want to listen! Discussion about the current movement of radical domesticity, the revival & reclaimation of domestic arts (cooking, knitting, gardening &c) and the history of craft centered revolution will be interwoven through the creative processes. *Everyone* is welcome to share their thoughts and experiences on what’s traditionally thought of as “womens’ work” and its intersection with feminism, sex & sexuality and gender.
Stripping by Choice
Presented by: Kelley
Saturday, Session: 3, Room 110
One progressive queer girl’s experience with and analysis of stripping, as a work choice. Open to everyone, whether you are a sex worker, you think stripping is horrid, or you’re just curious. We’ll explore body ideals, selling oneself, hyper-femininity, social acceptance, some positives and negatives of that work, and more?
Talking to Strangers
Presented by: Joe Corneli
Saturday, Session: 3, Room 127
Talking to strangers can be challenging and even taboo. But it can also be fun — and, besides, talking to strangers is the only way to make new friends. The common wisdom is that talking to strangers is risky. In this workshop, we’ll look for ways to manage these risks and communicate with confidence.
What’s Your Kink Got to Do with Your Shrink?
The intersection between alternative sexual practices and psychotherapy
Presented by: Scott Jacoby
Saturday, Session: 3, Room 115
The mental health field has a shameful history of marginalizing sexual minorities. When people who participate in kinky sexual activities seek out mental health providers, they often receive psychological speculations rather than evidence-based assessments, diagnoses, and treatment. This workshop will discuss the following questions, as well as additional questions added by attendees
. How to get culturally sensitive care without dealing with therapists’ biases, stigmatizations, misconceptions, and countertransference
. What does it mean to have sexual preferences that are statistically abnormal, but pathologically neutral?
. How to be a client without turning into your therapist’s BDSM/kink educator
. How to keep the lines between healthy and unhealthy sexual practices from becoming blurry….. and how to find a safe therapeutic environment when needing to explore areas where the lines are blurry?
. How do you take off your “advocate hat” during therapy
. When your therapist takes a pathologically neutral stance toward kink behavior, how do you allow yourself to take the same neutral stance
. How to find kink-aware professionals and what should you expect from your mental health provider
Whips and Chains, Sans Chains
Presented by: Garrett
Sunday, Session: 2, Room 130
Experienced whippers and those new to the obsession with the single-tail (thank you Dr. Jones) can all enjoy a time to learn and share the knowledge, skill and fun of single-tail whip play. There will be a very brief demonstration followed by a free-for-all of practice and demonstration. The circus and showy variety of practice will likely move outdoors while those more interested in the sexy and sadistic arts will probably remain indoors. There will be a few loaner whips available for people to use, but bring whips if you have them.
Writing Women’s Erotica for Fun and (Some) Profit
Presented by: Catherine Lundoff
Sunday, Session: 1, Room 127
A writing workshop dealing with the following: writing erotica for the available erotic/romance publishing markets. What editors and publishers look for and how to do it: working with voice, setting, plots and other basic building blocks. A resource list of publishing opportunities and market guides will be included as will a short writing exercise and time for participant questions.
You’re an Amazing F***!
Presented by: Micah and Friends
Saturday, Session: 2, Room 130
It’s back, and even better! This wildly awesome workshop/skillshare about sex & transbodies is back for a second helping! Join Micah and friends for a carefully facilitated interactive skillshare about having sex and other hotness with trans identified folks. This workshop is open to everybody who wants to learn more about how to respectfully, successfully date and/or get it on with trans people. Trans people and non-trans people of all identities and levels of knowledge of trans issues and trans bodies are encouraged to come! The more diverse our participants, the wider range of skills to be shared!
Just a little taste of what we’ll cover
-How to hit on a trans-person without sounding creepy or fetishizing
-Coming out about your trans body and getting the sex you want
-Figuring out what language works for gendered body parts
-Negotiating hot, hot, hot sex
-Writing online personal ads by/for trans folks
-Demonstration of touching body parts, inc. genitals, in awesome ways! (prosthetics, not people, will be used
-Anecdotes of successful se
-True tales of what works and what doesn’t
-Trans 101 review of some trans-body specifics (effects of hormones, surgery, binding, packing, prosthetics
-much, much more! YOU decide the focus of discussion
Come and get the tools YOU need to be an AMAZING F***
IMPORTANT NOTE: This workshop will be facilitated by a warm and friendly transman who wants YOU to have confident and fabulous sex! Very careful facilitation will be provided, and confidentiality will be observed. We will observe safer space guidelines that are explicitly aware/inclusive of: trans bodies, non-trans folks, different levels of knowledge, sex work/ers, polyamory and monogamy, celibacy, sluts, kink, casual sex, safer/riskier sex, fatphobia, transphobia, homophobia, queers, straight folks, shy kids, people with STIs, dis/dif-ability, prudes, virgins, allies, poor folks, class privilege, people of color, white folks, women, dudes, and, well, all those identities/activities that might get picked on, excluded, unjustly privileged, or otherwise make you feel awkward in a conversation about how YOU want to get it on
