LSM Presents: Gendering Power: How to Spice Up Your Role Play with Sinclair Sexsmith

Where: LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street (bet 7th and 8th Ave.)
Cost: $5/LSM members, $10/Non members

Perhaps gender roles are just a construct. But that doesn’t mean they’re not hot! Lots of queers come to our own unique expressions of gender, and it can be a powerful way to explore many sides of ourselves with each other.

Adding gender dynamics to sex play can encourage self-discovery, solidify or express identities which are budding, or further express identities already in progress.

In this interactive workshop we will explore the addition and power of gender roles in sexual role play scenarios to increase desire, vulnerability, self-knowledge, and intimacy. Bring a pen and your notebook, we’ll do some writing exercises to get us thinking.

About Sinclair Sexsmith
Sinclair Sexsmith enjoys whiskey, topping, the serial comma, political activism, and has been known to get on her knees in order to fix the strappy sandals of a queer femme.

Mr. Sexsmith’s online writing and photography projects such as Queer Eye Candy and Top Hot Butches explore queer sexuality, gender theory, butch/femme identity, and interpersonal relationships. She was named 2008’s #1 Top Sex Blogger for Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at sugarbutch.net, and received both the Best Lesbian Gender Bender Blog and the Best Lesbian Sex/Erotica Blog awards from The Lesbian Lifestyle in 2009. Her writing can be found in various anthologies, including the Best Lesbian Erotica series and in Visible: A Femmethology volume two.

Featured in the New York City Sex Blog Calendar benefiting Sex Work Awareness in 2009 and 2010 as a pin-up, Sinclair has also written for The Lesbian Lifestyle, Eden Fantasys, Carnal Nation’s Perv Panel, Mamba Girl, and Sappho’s Girls in the CyberDyke Network. She is starting a regular column on Radical Masculinity for Carnal Nation. She lives in New York City.

About LSM
LSM is a support and information group for all women 18 years of age or older, including transexual and intersexed women who live their daily lives as women and all female-born transgender people who feel they have a connection with and respect for the women’s community. And, who are interested in fantasy and role playing, bondage, discipline, S/M, fetishes, costumes, alternate gender identities and uninhibited sexual expression in a safe, sane, consensual and confidential way

Upcoming: March 19: Mollena Williams, Taboo Play, and Working Through Extremes