Attend BlackBEAT For Free This Year

Here are the details: Essay Contest & Scholarship Never attended a Black BEAT Conference? Playful Fashions, proudly announces it’s second Essay Contest Scholarship for one creative person to attend Black BEAT 09!  The winner will receive a general registration scholarship/package ( $150 value) to attend Black BEAT 09’s Caribbean Theme Conference, August 13-16 in Maryland. http://www.BlackBEATInc.org *PLEASE NOTE: Travel, Lodging, Ground Transportation, and all otherContinue reading “Attend BlackBEAT For Free This Year”

BDSM and Feminism

BDSM often gets a bad rap from feminists, particularly male dominants and female submissives.  Browsing WordPress today, I found an interesting article (through Feminist Philosophers) on Feminism and BDSM (link here). It’s taken me many years of unlearning mainstream power dynamics to understand and accept my own desire for fictional, fetishized ones. Despite this deliberateContinue reading “BDSM and Feminism”

Betty Page has Passed

A legend has died.  Not much more to say than that. Here is an obit. LOS ANGELES – Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85. Page suffered a heart attack last week inContinue reading “Betty Page has Passed”