A huge thank-you to the inimitable Jiz Lee for the tireless promotion of fisting. #FistingDay is a big part of it.
P.S. You know Jiz Lee as a star in several bestselling and award-winning lesbian porn flicks, including The Wild Search, Champion – Love Hurts, The Crash Pad Series Volume 1, The Crash Pad Series Volume 4 – Rope Burn and The Crash Pad Series Volume 6 – Wide Open. Jiz is totally hot! We’re in love!
We were lucky enough to have met Barbara DeGenevieve just over 10 years ago. She sent Nan a note about a new project she was working on called ssspread.com, and she had some lesbian porn she wanted to show us.
Thus was born Full Load: Scenes from ssspread.com, which Barbara directed and for which Nan served as executive producer. Greta Christina wrote, “This is a tasty video…butch and FTM fans, load up.”
As relevant today as it was then, Full Load showed explicit lesbian and trans sex. Nan says, “Barbara was one of the first people to really explore lesbian, queer, FTM and trans sex in a porn context.”
She served as chair of the photography department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a visual artist, she received two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowships, among other awards and honors.
Out of her Chicago home base, Barbara also served as a mentor to the talented Carolyn Caizzi (Turn Me Up Over and On, Coming Home, Special Delivery) and Stacy Goldate (as Edith Edit, directing Dominatrix Waitrix), each of whom has her own porn style and eye for style.
We had the pleasure of meeting Barbara in person in Santa Fe a few years ago. What fun!
It was with great sadness we learned of her death earlier this week from cervical cancer.
We credit Barbara with bringing a “Chicago porn” style to lesbian and feminist porn. Her influence can be seen in her sense of humor, which is present in nearly everything she touched and created.
If you’re a fan of Afterschool Special, you for sure know the supremely talented Ms. Hussy…who performs under the band name Karen and the Sorrows.
After a year of hard work, Karen has released The Names of Things, available at karenandthesorrows.com, on iTunes or, as she says, “pretty much any other internet music place.”
Fuck Yeah, Queer Music says, “They write loss and heartbreak, and goddamn are they good at it.”
There’s even a vinyl version! Oh, be still our record-player-lovin’ hearts!
Here’s the video, posted on YouTube: http://youtu.be/xeWjAbGzT-E
“Just a Little Heartbreak” – very sweet song!
And if you missed Afterschool Special it’s not too late. One of our favorite videos.
Yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. See all Fatale’s lesbian titles, what LesbianLife.About.com calls “the best lesbian porn.”
Today is Nan’s birthday!
Come say Happy Birthday to her on the Fatale Facebook page.
If you prefer, you can send her a Tweet @FataleMedia.
Our plans? A picnic. Then later, reservations for dinner at one of our favorite Italian places.
Then…
Who knows! We had a great time for our anniversary, so Nan’s birthday should be excellent!
Yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. For the second month in a row, Fatale’s #1 bestseller was Hard Love and How to Fuck in High Heels.
The #2 bestseller? Bend Over Boyfriend. Makes a nice Mother’s Day gift…ask for free gift-wrap and personalized gift card for the mom in your life!
P.P.S. You can see all Fatale’s lesbian titles, what LesbianLife.About.com calls “the best lesbian porn.”
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres has been named the #1 most influential person among gay movers and shakers, out-influencing Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook. Out magazine named its Power 50.
Ellen moved up from the #2 spot last year. One reason, Out’s editors noted, was because it was “time to rethink how we ranked the profiles of the 50 most powerful lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in America” in terms of their business and cultural influence, power-brokering having changed “immeasurably over the last few years alone.”
Among the Power 50, we were also very happy to see Rachel Maddow and Brittney Griner included.
We recommend Yagg’s analysis of the selection, too.
Congratulations, Ellen!
Yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. See all Fatale’s lesbian titles, what LesbianLife.About.com calls “the best lesbian porn.”
April is finally a time we can relax. No holidays—until Passover and Easter—and, for us, not much travel. We had hoped to go to the Feminist Porn Conference and the Feminist Porn Awards in Toronto again this year, but alas it wasn’t meant to be.
Still, all this weekend, we’ll be following the Tweets coming from #FPCon2 and #SmartSmut.
We did get a chance to go to Key West last month to visit Christi’s parents and relax in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Here’s a picture of Nan in Florida that we posted at Fatale’s Facebook page—come say hello and click like, if you like.
Our anniversary is next week, so we made plans to go to a lovely Japanese spa next Friday night. The private tub has a waterfall and a beautiful view. Afterwards, we’ve got reservations at a Japanese restaurant to round out the evening. We’ll take some pictures.
Yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. In case you think we’ve forgotten about porn, we haven’t! The #1 bestseller for March was Hard Love and How to Fuck in High Heels.
P.P.S. You can see all Fatale’s lesbian titles, what LesbianLife.About.com calls “the best lesbian porn.” See all Fatale’s videos.
Are you ready for some #SmartSmut? This year’s Feminist Porn Awards ceremony, the 9th Annual, is ready to rock and roll your ideas of what porn is. Sponsored by the sex shop Good for Her, the event takes place on Friday, April 4th, at the Castlefield Event Theatre on Yonge Street in Toronto.
It’s not too late to score tickets and rub shoulders with your favorite porn stars.
The Feminist Porn Conference, organized by Tristan Taormino, is held at the University of Toronto, April 5-6, 2014. This is a knock ’em out conference where sex meets ideas, and some of the smartest people in the industry talk, laugh and share their vision for the future.
Courtney Trouble is giving the closing keynote, too. If you don’t know Courtney’s wide range of work, we recommend you start with recent films of hers, the award-winning Lesbian Curves and Hard Femme.
Check out last year’s FPCon weekend roundup, “Moments from FPCon,” a review of the conference and more from the Feminist Porn Awards, when Nan was honored with the Trailblazer Award.
We’ll be there in spirit, hashtagging #FPCon2 and #SmartSmut!
Yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. See all Fatale’s lesbian titles, what LesbianLife.About.com calls “the best lesbian porn.”
International Women’s Day takes place tomorrow, March 8, 2014.
According to the official site, it is a global celebration of women, honoring “the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.”
We urge you to celebrate!
Like International Women’s Day on Facebook and follow the events on Twitter using hashtag #womensday.
Yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. See all Fatale’s lesbian titles, what LesbianLife.About.com calls “the best lesbian porn.” See all Fatale’s videos.
If you haven’t read Alison Bechdel’s incisive graphic memoir Fun Home, we highly recommend it.
Her off-Broadway play of the same name was staged at the Public Theater in New York and was a knockout! Scripted by Lisa Kron, the play is a musical, depicting the autobiographical story.
Bechdel’s father, a closeted gay man, commits suicide mere months after Bechdel comes out to her parents.
Now, the University of South Carolina is under fire for recommending the book, one of many, to incoming freshmen. The state’s legislature determined that this was not suitable reading for “children.” Although we would say that 17- and 18-year-olds about to enter an institute of higher learning are not exactly “children.”
The issue is Bechdel’s lesbianism, not, apparently, her father’s suicide.
Bechdel reacts to the controversy in a good article.
Spooky Sexy Halloween
Friday, October 24th, 2014Halloween is next week, and we can’t wait!
Seriously, it’s one of our favorite holidays, mostly nondenominational and a no-risk excuse to dress up and have fun!
Here’s one of the most interesting articles we’ve read, and we thought you’d like too (1.5K shares!), from executive editor Emily McCombs – @msemilymccombs at XO Jane.
“8 Slutty And Feminist Costumes for Sex-Positive Halloween Lovers” will have you chuckling if not rolling and calling out for more.
The only one we thought missing? Slutty feminist pornographer! Of course. Pick a wig and you’re on your way… These are our wig picks. What do you think?
Fave comment from XO Jane article:
“Slutty witch…not as original as this list, but still kinda feminist…plus there’s nothing like being slutty and scary at the same time!”
More good slutty/sexy/feminist comments:
“Sexy taco.”
“Sexy owl.”
St. Pauli MILF.
And #2, Annie Sprinkle!
What are planning to dress up as this Halloween? Post your pictures on Fatale’s Facebook page or Tweet it to us @FataleMedia.
Yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. We celebrated #FistingDay – promoted by the sexy Jiz Lee. Here’s our blog post, and here’s one of our favorite movies starring Jiz Lee.
P.P.S. See all Fatale’s lesbian titles, what LesbianLife.About.com calls “the best lesbian porn.”
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