<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div>Stone Sex and Kink:<br>For Stones and Their Partners<br><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_1">Friday, April 23, 2010</span><br>(NOTE DATE CHANGE)<br><br><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_2">8-10 p.m</span>., doors open at <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_3">7:30 p.m</span>.<br>$4 Exiles members, $10 non-members<br>at the Women's Building, 3543 18th St. @ Valencia, SF<br><br>Stone
is often only seen as an absence, a loss, a problem. This class offers
an alternative perspective on stone, celebrating the hotness of stone
sex and play, discussing ways to address the impact of anti-stone
prejudice, and ways to honor who we are now even if we are exploring
ways to push our own boundaries. This interactive workshop will focus
on the challenges and especially the pleasures of stone sexuality and
kink, while honoring the complexities that each of us bring to a
discussion of stone.<br><br>About the Presenter:<br>Corey Alexander is an NYC-based transgender <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_4">stone butch</span> kink educator and writer. He was the founding facilitator of the Queer <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_5">Special Interest Group</span>
at the Eulenspiegal Society. He has been in the public scene since 2000
and a kink educator since 2003. He writes queer BDSM erotica under the
nom de plume Xan West, and his story "First Time Since" recently won
honorable mention for the 2008 National Leather Association <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_6">John Preston</span>
Short Fiction Award. He has been a professional teacher/trainer for
over ten years and has taught in the NYC area at TES, LSM, Instigate
NYC, and <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_7">Conversio Virium</span>,
and at kink and queer events like the Floating World, TESFest, NOLOSE,
Forge Forward, New Jersey Leather Weekend, Butch Voices, and TNG3. You
can find him at <a target="_blank" href="http://tgstonebutch.livejournal.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_8">TGStoneButch.LiveJournal.com</span></a>, and email him at PraxisProductions (at) <a target="_blank" href="http://gmail.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_9">gmail.com</span></a>. <br><br><span>For more information about the Exiles, check out <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theexiles.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_10">www.theexiles.org</span></a> as</span><br>well as our groups on FetLife, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_11">Facebook</span>, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_12">MySpace</span>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://tribe.net/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1271873115_13">Tribe.net</span></a>!</div>
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