The following projects have an open call for submissions of essays or interviews:
I'm looking to interview transgendered perverts of all sorts for this book, over email if we can't meet face to face. I'm looking for people who openly identify as transgendered in the BDSM communities they move in, and how that identity affects their partners and their activities. I'm looking for people who shapeshifted their bodies and transitioned their identities, and how that changed their BDSM relationships and fetishes. I'm looking for people who publicly hold third gender space in BDSM contexts, and how they interface with the demographic. I'm looking for transpeople in power exchange relationships who are willing to talk about how their perception of gender affects their perception of dominance and submission. I'm looking for FTMs and MTFs, fat and thin, old and young, all sorts. Those who end up with featured interviews will need to submit a photo of yourself, and yes, your face needs to be in it. Those who don't submit photos will be quoted throughout the work, but not get featured interviews.
I'm looking for articulate people who are willing to write or speak thoughtfully about things, not just give me one-line answers.
I'm also open to hearing from partners of transfolk who contribute to this book.
I'm also looking for photos of transfolk doing kinky things, faces or no. The photos don't have to be professional quality, they just have to show us as the sexy and passionate and creative people we are.
If you're willing to contribute to this book, please email me at cauldronfarm@hotmail.com and put "Double Edge" in the subject and I'll send you the email questionnaire.
Raven Kaldera and Christina "slavette" Parker are putting together an anthology of essays on how people handle polyamory when there are consenting unequal power dynamics in the relationship. When you've got serious power exchange, many of the "normal" rules of polyamory don't apply. What do we do instead? How do we handle the situations so that they're as healthy as possible, and so our poly relationships last instead of exploding? We're looking for intelligent, articulate articles on how your polyamorous relationships work.
What we want:
1) Essays under 10,000 words, sent as an attached Word, Open Office or Word Perfect (not WordPad) document to Raven Kaldera at cauldronfarm@hotmail.com, with "Power Circuits" in the title.
2) Stories of how your web of poly power-exchange relationships function. What works well? What doesn't work? How have things evolved over time?
3) Essays that cover specific topics, such as: Protocol used for group processing. Queer poly and straight poly; poly across the lines of sexual preference. Gender differences in poly D/s and M/s. How dom/mes can learn to take responsibility for the poly dynamic and create harmony among multiple subs and slaves. How submissives can share more than one dominant. How egalitarian lovers fit into our lives. How our households run, if we have M/s households (and how we define those). How they run if they are a mix of people, some D/s and some not. How jealousy, possessiveness, territoriality, and envy are dealt with when people have given up their agency. How people can find more poly folk to add to their power dynamics, and how to interview them. How we set priorities among our lovers. How we incorporate people with whom we have service contracts, but are not sexual and/or romantic. How all these things (and more) differ from the vanilla poly ethic, and how we handle our sexual ethics.
What we don't want:
Stories about how it all went terribly wrong and you'll never try poly again because you're so burned. Stories about how Master abused you, a monogamous person, by forcing you to share him with another slave. Whining. Bitching. Making an essay into a place to publicly trash an ex. We want essays that are actually useful to people who read them, not just venting. If a relationship did end, that's OK, but make the discussion of the breakup useful to readers.
Deadline for submissions is November 1. There is no pay for submissions -- sorry, we don't know exactly where this book will come out, but it needs to happen anyway. People are waiting for it.
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