Going Queer: Body Electric
In a week and a half I am attending Outside the Boxes: Celebrating the Queer Body Electric. To say that I am excited is an understatement.6 months ago I tried to attend the first of this groundbreaking series of events in San Francisco. I tried to get the time off, the flights scheduled... and it was simply not meant to be. Body Electric has been around for many years. I remember a lover of mine 15 years ago singing their praises from when he attended and helped then facilitate a number of the men's body electric events. I considered back then attending the women's events, but it did not feel right. They debuted BDSM connection weekends, but by then I had been in the kink community for a while, and again, it did not feel right.But when, 6 months ago, the queer event came on the radar, my spirit perked up. The workshop description starts:
Your gender. Your body. Your energy. Your beautiful self. How often has the world tried to force you into the gender binary, asked you to assure it that your pronouns matched what it saw rather than what you felt, required that your genitals conform to expectations, demanded that you deny the complexity of all that is you?What if you could come into a community in which all expressions were possible? Where gender, sexuality and expression were aligned according to your truth? Where no one assumed what parts would go where? Welcome to Out of the Boxes: Celebrating the Queer Body Erotic!
The workshop is not just for queer, genderqueer, trans, or gender non-conforming individuals. That is what I love about it. It is about exploring body wisdom... something I have needed to reconnect with as of late. My body dysphoria has been pretty bad. My connection with my body has been... not what I desire. So this is perfect for me, perfectly timed, perfect.I look forward to making new connections there, and connecting with those I already know. And ya know what- I hear there are still some tickets left :) It will be in NYC May 18-20, how perfect is that?
The work of Body Electric is to help people enhance their sense of eros, explore their potential, create community and experience intimacy, acceptance and inspiration.
Now THAT is a mission statement I can stand behind.