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This just in from Laughing Squid: Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF) presents the First Annual ARTumnal Gathering

Join us for a Special Gathering of the Clan
on November 3rd for a sumptuous autumnal evening immersed in a savory harvest of delights, beguiling libations, and a caravan of elegant and outlandish live performers. For this BRAF benefit, dress to mingle with the glitter-art-i while perusing unique creations of ‘Wearable Art’ for your bidding pleasure. Dinner and open bar all evening.

The Lodge at The Regency Center - 1290 Sutter Street at Van Ness - SF
Special Preview 7:00 pm ~ $250
Gathering 8:00 pm - 1:00 am ~ $150
(Tickets include dinner & open bar.)

Patricia Sauthoff from the SF Reporter conducted an interview with Mim Chapman of the well known Vagina Dialogues called “Let’s Talk About Sex“.

I’ve heard much about this performance but have never caught it. Interestingly, it stems from Chapman’s time as a teacher with young kids and the still prevalent hypocrisies and misinformation that is rampant in the public sphere around sex, educational or otherwise.

But I was pleasantly surprised to discover some costume-clad research was conducted at Burning Man!

Did you get your research for the Dialogues from the kids you taught?
You can’t ask kids because of the confidentiality rules, so I thought if I asked adults what they’d like to know about sex I could find out what they didn’t learn as kids. I started out at Burning Man because I wanted to go to a really liberal enlightened group of people. I went in the 6-foot vulva costume and gave away invitations to our camp, where we were giving away free oral sex—as in talking about it. Every afternoon people gathered and filled out my survey, ‘What did you ever want to ask a vagina or a penis?’ basic demographic info and where people learned most of what they knew. I was absolutely shocked at what people didn’t know.

UPDATE: Shoutfit WAS cut just right. Alas poor Shoutfit has died an ignoble and swift death. It suddenly stopped working in late 2007. Sorry, folks. No more fun to be had here… move along…

My favorite new social site is Shoutfit.

Think trends, friends, outfits, and closets of your own creations and those from others who are proud to show off their style. The trendsetters there are fun and stylish to the extreme. Plenty of Playa style cabaret, gothic, circus, apocalypse, vampire, aristocratic, wasteland, fruits chic by and for the folks who do and appreciate it!

One neat feature is the Collage element that allows you to take your photos of different clothing bits and pieces and arrange them on a white board. You can also show an outfit and then create squares over the bits and pieces to point out and explain to viewers what and where you got your stylish duds. Shoutfit is still in beta so will no doubt get better.

It’s irresistible to anyone on the Etsy DIY style wavelength. Lookit me in ma clothes!