CURRICULUM VITAE 

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    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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ESSAYS/ARTICLES

How to Avoid An Argument: Stay In—Do Not Go Outside,” on mediate.com, also used in author/teacher Estelle Frankel’s Jewish Spirituality curriculum. 2007.
The Heart of the Delay: Harnessing the Wisdom of Procrastination, AKA Writer’s Block,” on numerous Internet sites, 2005.
Writing While Black: An Interview with Victoria Sanders, Literary Agent,” on numerous Internet sites, 2005.
 “Seven Essential Points on Literary Agents,” on numerous Internet sites, 2005.
 “The Arrogant Writer: Five Ways to Nurture and Defend Your Muse,” on numerous Internet sites, 2005.
Taming the Book Proposal: The Basics,” on numerous Internet sites, 2005.
 “Manly, Yes, But I Like it Too: The Life and Loves of A GirlFag,” in BUST magazine, Summer, 2003.
“Platform Development Tip#1: Switch Writing Hats!,” on numerous Internet sites, 2005.
“For Beginners: Ten Ways to Prepare to Get Published,” on numerous Internet sites, 2005.
 “Queer Naked Seder,” in Queer Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Schneer, eds., Routledge, 2002.
 “Differences,” in Male Lust: Pleasure, Power and Transformation. Kerwin Kay, ed., Haworth Press, 2000.
“Only Sucking Cock,” in sex and single girls: straight and queer women on sexuality, Lee Damsky, ed., Seal Press, 2000.
“My Name is Not ‘Hey, Baby!’,” An essay on facing random sexual harassment, in moXie magazine, Summer, 1999.
“Girl/Fag!,” in Curve magazine, February, 1999.
“Skinny ‘White’ Chicks and Hung, Buff Boys: Queer Sex Spaces and Their Discontents,” in Looking Queer, Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Communities, Dawn Atkins, ed., Haworth Press, 1998.
“My Big, Fat Dick,” an article about the history and current use of dildos, in On Our Backs, June/July 1998.
“Stroking My Inner Fag,” in PoMo Sexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality.  Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel, eds., Cleis Press, 1997.
“Queer Grrl at a Swing Party,” in Spectator, January 31, 1997.
“Whore Stories for All Seasons: The Hour of the Harlot,” a review of Whore Carnival, Shannon Bell, ed., in Spectator, May 23, 1996.
Review of Secrets of Sensual Lovemaking by Tom Leonardi in Girlfriends magazine, March/April, 1996.
“Queers Among Queers: Traversing the Monosexual Margins” with Clare Hemmings in Anything That Moves: The Magazine for the Uncompromising Bisexual, Issue #9, 1995.
“Framing Radical Bisexuality: Toward a Gender Agenda,” in Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Naomi Tucker, ed., Haworth Press, 1995.
“A Different Normal: Sacred Sex and Intimacy Among the Dagara,” in Spectator , June, 1994.
“Some Thoughts on Power, Gender, Body Image and Sex in the Life of One Bisexual Lesbian Feminist,” in Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism, Elizabeth Reba Weise, ed., Seal Press, 1992 (pseudonym “Vashti Zabatinsky”).
“Bi, Bi Labels – Hello, Queer Liberation!” in BiFocus, A Newsletter for Philadelphia’s Bisexual Community, 1991.
“Bi’s Go National – Get Used to It!” in BiFocus, A Newsletter for Philadelphia’s Bisexual Community, 1990.
“Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home?” in Labyrinth, the Philadelphia Women’s Newspaper, 1988.

REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS

Review of Making Work, Making Trouble: Prostitution as a Social Problem, Prostitution, Power, and Freedom,Julia O’Connell Davidson; Sex Work & Sex Workers,. Edited by Barry Dank and Roberto Refinetti. eds; Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry, Ronald Weitzer, ed. in SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 27, Number 4, Summer, 2002.
“Sex, American Style,” a review of The Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Michael Hemmingson, in American Book Review, 2001.
Drag: Joyce Carol Oates does Marilyn Monroe,” A review of Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates, in American Book Review, 2001.
“Strange Bedfellows,” a review of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture by Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter in Blue Food, Issue #2, 2000.
“Retrofitting Genre to Cure Gender: Review of A Good Cuntboy is Hard to Find by Doug Rice,” in American Book Review, September-October 1999.
“How to Make A Straight Woman: Naomi Wolf Gives Instructions,” review of Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, in Girlfriends magazine, January, 1998.
“The Quest for The Holy Grail of Female Pleasure, Part One: Ultimate Orgasms,” Review of Secrets of Sensual Lovemaking by Tom Leonardi in Spectator, October 3, 1996.
“The Quest for The Holy Grail of Female Pleasure, Part Two: Sacred Boy-Whores,” an interview with Tom Leonardi in Spectator, October 24, 1996.
“Pleasure, Power and Consent,” a Review of Some Women, Laura Antoniou, ed., in Spectator, November 23, 1995.
“Interview with Lamont Steptoe” in BiFocus, A Newsletter for Philadelphia’s Bisexual Community, 1991.

FICTION

“Not What I Wanted” in More Five-Minute Erotica, Carol Queen, ed., Running Press Book Publishers, 2007.
“Pervert,” in Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong, Russ Kick, ed., Disinformation Press, 2005, and Guilty Pleasures: True Tales of Erotic Indulgence, M. Christian, ed., Black Books, 2002.
 “Yours” in Best SM Erotica, M. Christian, ed., Black Books, 2003.
 “Eruption,” in Erotic Travel Tales, Mitzi Szereto, ed., Cleis Press, 2001.
“Ethnography,” in Best Bisexual Erotica, Bill Brent and Carol Queen, eds.  Black Books/Circlet Press, 2000.
“Makeover,” in Best Lesbian Erotica 2000, Tristan Taormino, ed., Cleis Press, 2000.
“Numbers,” in Tricks and Treats, Matt Bernstein Sycamore, ed., Haworth Press, 2000.
“Jackie’s Birthday,” on www.gettingit.com, December, 1999.
“Tight Jeans,” in First Person Sexual: Women and Men Write About Self-Pleasuring Joani Blank, ed., Down There Press, 1996.

POETRY

 “All the Rage” in Tea Party, Issue 12, 2002.
“A War Story” in Blue Food, Issue 2, 2001
“top boy” in Lethologica, issue 1, 2000
“…” in inciting desire, issue 2, 1992

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

“Sex Work in American Culture,” presented at Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, March, 2003.
“Toward A Feminist Sex Work Practice,” presented at “the International Congress on Prostitution,” Northridge, CA, March, 1997.
“Gender-Related Oppression, Bisexual Disruption and Queer Liberation,” presented at “Queer Frontiers: The Fifth Annual National Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Graduate Student Conference,” Los Angeles, 1995.
 “Interparadigmatics: Toward a New Epistemology/Praxis of Queer Liberation” presented at “Queer Frontiers: The Fifth Annual Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Graduate Student Conference,” Los Angeles, 1995.
 “Bisexuality in a Gender Container: The Tupperware Theory,” presented at “InQueery, InTheory, InDeed—Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies,” Iowa City, 1994.

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS

Efemmeral Flesh: corporeal utterances, Audacity Press, 2005.  A book of poetry and images
How to Find An Agent Who Can Sell Your Book for Top Dollar: Jill’s Guerilla Tips and Tricks,  GetPublished, 2005
Male Lust: Pleasure, Power and Transformation, Associate Editor.  Haworth, 2000, Kerwin Kay, editor.
Whores and Other Feminists, Editor.  Routledge, 1997.

 

TEACHING, WORKSHOP LEADING, AND SPEAKING HIGHLIGHTS

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SEXUALITY/GENDER

•  Invited Speaker on Race and Class Issues in the Sex Industry at University of California at Berkeley, March, 2000.
•  Invited Keynote Speaker on Gender at “Festival of Postmodern Piracy,” Kent State University, April, 1999.
•  Developed and Taught “ZenFlirtation,” an interactive workshop based on forthcoming book on the same topic. Good Vibrations, San Francisco, 1999-2003, and other locations.
•  Spoke as Panelist, Presentation on Sex Industry Politics. San Francisco State University, 1999.
•  “Sex Work: Exploitation, Exhilaration, or Just a Job?” with Victor Lewis of the acclaimed video The Color of Fear. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1998.
•  Gave workshop with Victor Lewis on “Sexual Communication: The Ins and Outs,” Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 1998.
•  Spoke on Panel about Femme Gender Identity, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1998.
•  Gave Lecture, Facilitated Discussion, “Sex Work, Feminism, and Other Strange Bedfellows.” Rice University, Austin, TX, 1998.
•  Gave Lecture, Facilitated Discussion “What is A Whore?” San Francisco State University, 1998.
•  Developed and taught “Activism: Theory and Practice” Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1995.
•  Appeared as bisexual spokesperson on “The Maury Povich Show,” 1995.
•  Appeared as bisexual spokesperson on “Nighttalk with Jane Whitney,” 1992.
•  Gave Lecture, Facilitated Discussion, “Straight, Queer, and The Rest of Us,” Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1991.
•  Designed and facilitated the following workshops:
•  Workshop on bisexuality with Cleo Manago for Bisexual, Lesbian, and Gay Student Health Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 1994.
•  “Linking Theory and Practice” for National Conference on Bisexuality (in conjunction with March on Washington), Washington, DC, 1993.
•  Gender roles workshop, National Conference for Christians and Jews, High School Leadership and Diversity Conference, Philadelphia, 1991.
•  Bisexuality Workshops, Sisterspace Pocono Weekends, 1988 and 1990.
•  Bisexuality 101 and 201 Workshops, Lesbian/Gay Awareness Weeks, University of Pennsylvania, 1988 and 1989.
•  Bisexuality Workshop (group effort) for annual Lesbians and Gays at Penn (LGAP) Retreat, University of Pennsylvania, 1986.
Numerous speaking engagements on bisexuality at the University of Pennsylvania from 1986-89, including:
•  Sociology of Gender class with Dr. Demi Kurz, 1987.
•  Residence hall and fraternity educational programs, 1987-89.
•  In-service training seminar for University Counseling Service staff members, 1987.
Planned and facilitated gender issues workshops/presentations for Middle Years Alternative School faculty members, as well as University of Pennsylvania resident advisors and undergraduates, Philadelphia, 1986-88.
Shared leadership and participated in ongoing experiential group examining and healing gender issues among group of ten women and men, San Francisco, 1993.


RACE, CLASS, ETHNICITY, AND RELIGION

•  Designed and facilitated numerous workshops, including the following:
Cultural Biases in Mainstream Feminism, “Empowering Women of Color Conference,” University of California, Berkeley, 1994.
Multicultural Alliance Building, “Empowering Women of Color Conference,” University of California, Berkeley, 1993.
Multicultural Alliance Building, “BiWest Conference,” San Diego, 1993.
Bisexuality and Judaism, “BiWest Conference,” San Diego, 1993.