argh, being a wittness sucks.
The other night I was at the skate park with my partner watching him BMX, and some travel punks (new in town, never seen them before) were sitting on the otherside and at first they were all just hanging out and chilling. but then something happened and they started yelling at this one guy, and so they started kicking his ass, they kicked him in the face numerous times, in the rips, and it was just brutal you could hear the thubs from across the skate park. once they left I rushed over to the guy, and was talking to him and trying to get him to stay awake. he didn't respond to any of it. so finally someone called an ambulance ( the only practical use for a cell phone) and they came, I gave a statement. and stupid me I gave them my address, and phone number...the five-0 are probably thinkin' now "one activist down, x amount to go" yeah yeah, I know I'm a genius.
anyways so that's my life thust far, I have to go into the police station at 2. this fucking sucks.
anyways.
other than that MY life has been okay, going to a party tonight, and then possibly one tomorrow night ot saturday night. some guy. dave haress. is in town. Mike is all about dave haress, he's pretty impressive...kind of all about the ego though
The other night I was at the skate park with my partner watching him BMX, and some travel punks (new in town, never seen them before) were sitting on the otherside and at first they were all just hanging out and chilling. but then something happened and they started yelling at this one guy, and so they started kicking his ass, they kicked him in the face numerous times, in the rips, and it was just brutal you could hear the thubs from across the skate park. once they left I rushed over to the guy, and was talking to him and trying to get him to stay awake. he didn't respond to any of it. so finally someone called an ambulance ( the only practical use for a cell phone) and they came, I gave a statement. and stupid me I gave them my address, and phone number...the five-0 are probably thinkin' now "one activist down, x amount to go" yeah yeah, I know I'm a genius.
anyways so that's my life thust far, I have to go into the police station at 2. this fucking sucks.
anyways.
other than that MY life has been okay, going to a party tonight, and then possibly one tomorrow night ot saturday night. some guy. dave haress. is in town. Mike is all about dave haress, he's pretty impressive...kind of all about the ego though
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1. I've identified as being a feminist since I was about 16 I guess. I started learning about feminism right after I came out as bi. For me being queer was closely related to being a feminist because of the need to have equal rights for everyone.
2. I actually learned about SG through the message boards on bust.com, which is a feminist magazine/website. The members were discussing whether or not porn and erotica could be feminist and someone linked to SG as an example of feminist porn. I loved the girls I saw (at the time I think there were about 30!) and the fact that it was a porn site with active journals and message boards and girls who participated in both.
3. I've gotten so much flack from feminist communities and from feminists as individuals for being an SG and for doing nude modeling in general. I've had many people tell me that I couldn't truly be a feminist of i was a nude model, and I've even been told that my work is actually harming women and supporting the patriarchy. Of course I've also had very rational discussions with anti-porn feminists, so it hasn't been all bad.
4. I guess for me SG is mostly something I just enjoy doing and something that feels right to me. Though on some level I do feel that SG is doing a progressive thing: by having journals and board participation for the models it lessens the seperation in most mainstream porn between who the model is as a person and what her body looks like. The lack of visible personality in the models in a lot of porn is really disappointing and disturbing to me and I'm glad SG is different in that way.
5. I can't really comment on other industries as I've only ever done nude modeling but I do think that out of all the alt-porn sites and porn sites in general, SG has the most active, interesting, and closeknit community.
6. I've gained a ton of opportunities for activities through SG and through the people I've met on the site, and met lots of amazing people.
7. In the beginning SG was kind of a project for me to explore myself and new things, now it's really just a cool, fun part of my life.
8. I think that by saying women can't do or enjoy nude modeling for some reason is limiting them. And worse, I think it's treating women as if they are infants unable to make healthy decisions for themselves.
9. Not at all!
10. Yes, though some sites have a less active community only because their membership is smaller.
11. I like to think that by being vocally feminist on SG I might inspire people to look into feminism for themselves.