Bio Boy Fashionista on Haight Street

I like this understated outfit. It ignores Contemporary Codes Of Masculinity, and chooses a dandified look from the past.

Jasper Gregory

I Went To Biodanza Dance Tonight. It Is Life-Positive, Sexuality-Positive Dance Container

What is Biodanza?

Biodanza, which means Dance of Life, is a system that integrates music, movement and authentic interactions to provide experiences of intense perception of being alive in the here-and-now. These experiences are known as "vivencias", coined from the Spanish root: vivir (to live).

via biodanza.us

Jasper Gregory

Genderqueer Femme Boy | This Photo Initiated my Artist Life Trajectory

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Feb 21 2009
This photo was when began an Artist life trajectory. I manifested a genderqueer social gender and asked a stranger to document me. Burning Man Decompression 2008 was my first set of fashion photos as well. This was one of the first photos I cropped, and it shows.

Jasper Gregory

'Woman' thus becomes an 'identity' solely constituted through the 'injury' of male sexual power

(Sex-Positive Femme Identity | B&L After Ships In The Night Queer Dance Party, SF)

Feminism and Ressentiment

According to Brown, politicized identity, including feminism, displays many of the 'attributes of…. ressentiment' (1995: 27): the tendency on the part of the powerless to reproach power with moral arguments rather than to seek out power for itself. The turn to Nietzsche accounts for Brown's use of terms like 'pain' and 'injury' to indicate the effects of marginalisation and subordination. Nietzsche postulates that the cause of ressentiment is 'suffering': this suffering causes the individual to look for a sight of blame for the hurt, as well as to revenge itself upon the 'hurter'. Brown describes the 'politics of ressentiment' as follows:

Developing a righteous critique of power from the perspective of the injured, it ['the politics of ressentiment'] delimits a specific site of blame for suffering by constituting sovereign subjects and events as responsible for the "injury" of social subordination. It fixes the identity of the injured and the injuring as social positions, and codifies as well the meanings of their actions against all possibilities of indeterminacy, ambiguity, and struggle for resignification or repositioning…the effort to "outlaw" social injury powerfully legitimizes law and the state as appropriate protectors against injury and casts injured individuals as needing such protection by such protectors (1995: 27).

Ressentiment's investment in powerlessness means that it prefers moral posturing over political argument:

His [Nietzsche's] thought is useful in understanding the source and consequences of a contemporary tendency to moralize in the place of political argument, and to understand the codification of injury and powerlessness… that this kind of moralizing politics entails (Brown 1995: 27).

Brown's opposition between 'morals' and 'politics' seems at first difficult to accept, especially for feminists. What are we to base our politics on, after all, if not some notion of what is right, what is just, what is good, for women — all moral notions? However, in encouraging politics rather than morality, Brown does not suggest that we get rid of, or can do without, the 'right', the 'just' and the 'good'. What she does say is that ideas of what is right, just, or good that are based on moral notions of what we think we are lead to a politics of ressentiment, of 'reproach, rancor, moralism and guilt' (1995: 26). She argues that we need to develop new spaces in which to decide politically, collectively, what is good, just and right, derived not from identity-based notions of 'who I am' but from a new ethics of 'what I want for us' (1995:75).

The tendency to turn towards the state for protection, rather than questioning state power to regulate and discipline, is one that Brown sees as especially problematic for feminism. She notes women have particular cause for greeting such politics with caution. Historically, the argument that women require protection by and from men has been critical in legitimating women's exclusion from some spheres of human endeavor and confinement within others. Operating simultaneously to link "femininity" to privileged races and classes… protection codes are also markers and vehicles of such divisions among women. Protection codes are thus key technologies in regulating privileged women as well as intensifying the vulnerability and degradation of those on the unprotected side of the constructed divide between light and dark, wives and prostitutes, good girls and bad ones (1995: 165).

The notion of 'injured identities' offers a provocative way to begin to examine how and why CATW feminists are positioning the 'trafficking victim' in their discourse. Brown's examination of the historical formation of late modern politicized identities places the problematic of 'logics of pain in the subject formation processes'(1995: 55) central. This has immediate resonance: CATW's campaign against trafficking in women constantly reiterates the literal, physical pain undergone by 'third world prostitute' bodies. If 'politicized identity's investment… in its own history of suffering' (Brown 1995: 55) is a constituent element of late modern subject formation, this may help explain why CATW and Barry rely so heavily on the 'suffering' of third world trafficking victims in their discourses of women's subjugation. It also raises questions about CATW's efforts to seek protection for trafficking victims through 'protective' legislation.

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Jasper Gregory

I Stopped Her In Dolores Park and Told Her "You Look Gorgeous Today!" She Was Waiting For Her Valentine Date

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Photo: A Beautiful Ass | SF Event: Spanking Meet and Greet

Photo: A Beautiful Ass | Cass King @Decompression | SF | Oct 2008

Cass King of The Wetspots Cabaret troupe embraces her wildly feminine hips, thighs and ass. In her show at Mission Control had a very uncomfortable man from the audience smack her butt ten times while the audience counted. She loved this shot I took of her at Burning Man Decompression 2008.

This was taken on my first day of shooting portraits. I just picked up my camera and shot portraits straight for seven hours. That was how I translated my burning man deterritorialization into living my life as art.

Photo inspired by Katie Gilmartin at The CityArt Coop for concept. I am also indebted to the Adipositivity.com Project for inspiration. 

Spanking Meet & Greet (munch)

I really like that a spanking community is being developed in San Francisco. Spanking is a kind of body adoration and Very Safe Sex, not unlike sensual contact improvisational dance. It is nice to have a kink social space that is not about Extreme BDSM.

The munch is crossdress friendly, newbie friendly, woman friendly and queer friendly.

Photo: A Beautiful Ass | SF Event: Spanking Meet and Greet ((tag: kinky, fatpositive, sanfrancisco, cassking, thewetspots, spanking, bdsm, sf, california, erotic, beautifulass, fishnets, tights, thighs, showgirl, curvy, voluptuous))

Info

date: Saturday, February 20, 2010
time: 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
where: The Thirstybear
address: 661 Howard St. San Francisco, CA
cost: Cost of your own order but please allow for a generous tip
dress code: Spanking Casual - whatever you want, this is San Franicisco

Description
Whether it is your only kinky interest ( and you've been almost embarassed to say that at other munches ) or you have wide variety of other interests with a soft spot( or should I say 'sweet spot' ) for spanking...this is the munch for you. 
If you are coming from the broader BDSM world, please recognize that the focus of this group will be spanking and don't expect to convert anyone to 'harder drugs'.

Jasper Gregory

Such A Beautiful Woman! I Met Her At Coffee To The People In The Haight Street Autonomous Cultural Zone

Feb 15 2010
Isn't she a cutie! I was smitten on first sight. We talked about makeup and how powerful it is. I showed her my portfolio and we talked about fat activism, which was new to her. She was enthusiastic. She had a sweet yet powerful femme energy which shines through in her portrait

Jasper Gregory

SF Fat Femme Drag | Gayboy Femmes Know how to Perform Femme. They're Not Hung Up on the concept "Real Woman"

Feb 13, 2009
I met this Femme Beauty on Haight street. She shows the art of Femme as drag. Like most crossdressing Femmes she is unequivocal about her sex. She is male, she is a boy, and yet her Femme Gender is seamless and overpowering. In contrast to the dominant paradigm among Male-To-Female Transsexuals, she can embrace Simone de Beuvoire's (sp) suggestion that you are not born woman you become woman. Paradoxically, she becomes real by not clinging to an idea of "Real Woman."
She achieved that I projected the social gender "Femme" on her. The projection of woman was strong, so that when we talked about her being a boy. My mind filed that as untrustworthy data that did not fit.

Male Born Femmes can take inspiration from both these Fag Femme Artists and (Fat) Femme Dykes. Take off the "Real Woman" straightjacket. Estrogen can't make you a "Real Woman" because there is no such thing. The social identity of Femme offers me freedom of gender exploration as well as social integration. I feel like my Femme Identity has become authentic and self nurturing because I gave up the quest for "woman" authenticity.

Jasper Gregory

We Talked For Hours About Fat Activism, Socialization Of Males, Nurturing And Relationship

Feb 12, 2009
Her gorgeous colors caught my eye at Philz coffee in the Castrowith.
We talked about Femme as a Pansexed Gender. I showed her my portfolio
and we talked about art. A lovely afternoon.

Jasper Gregory

A new Source

February 9
I am creating a portfolio, but a new kind of portfolio. I decided to
work with the new means of printing, the digital stream. I am even now
sifting through my older work and finding the pieces that I most want
to share with you. It is exciting for me. I get to do recursive art,
and reinterpret my work and create a new whole.
The source for my stream can be found at http://jaspergregory.posterous.com.
You can also follow it on any of your favorite social media.
Hang for a wild ride...

Photo
 Daisy at CityArt Cooperative Gallery Feb 2010

jaspergregory's posterous

A new Source

February 9
I am creating a portfolio, but a new kind of portfolio. I decided to
work with the new means of printing, the digital stream. I am even now
sifting through my older work and finding the pieces that I most want
to share with you. It is exciting for me. I get to do recursive art,
and reinterpret my work and create a new whole.
The source for my stream can be found at http://jaspergregory.posterous.com.
You can also follow it on any of your favorite social media.
Hang for a wild ride...

Photo
 Daisy at CityArt Cooperative Gallery Feb 2010

jaspergregory's posterous