CASTING CALL FOR MODELS/ACTORS FOR SEXUALITY/EROTIC EDUCATIONAL DVD

CASTING CALL FOR MODELS/ACTORS
FOR SEXUALITY/EROTIC EDUCATIONAL DVD

The Kyle Phoenix ShowTM, as subsidiary of The Omni Group Inc. is a cable show on Time Warner, RCN and Comcast in New York is seeking men:

1. Between the ages of 25 to 50 (ID will be checked/age confirmed by Driver’s License, Birth Certificate, Passport, etc.)
2. Particularly Men Of Color (Black, Latin, Asian, Bi-Racial, etc.)
3. Good to reasonably good shape/work out regularly
4. You should be between 150lbs to 250lbs;
5. Comfortable with being nude on camera
6. Comfortable with erotic massage techniques being applied to you by a teacher
7. Available for a full day 6 to 8 hour filming schedule
8. Without tattoos (or able to be concealed with make-up)
9. Able to provide several pictures, headshots, etc. with a bio for consideration
10. Comfortable with being in an educational DVD dealing with issues of sexuality and physicality for primarily men that will be distributed nationally and internationally.

You will be provided with a guide/illustration of the scenes that are to occur for the training video being produced to gauge your comfort level before any agreements are signed/pay for services and given a reasonable time frame to decide whether this is the right project for you.

You will be made aware of the hourly/filming day rate based upon how many models are needed for the final project, alerted when distribution online and in stores is to occur and sent a complimentary copy of the final product.

All scenes are of an educational intent and will in no way constitute, be construed as, or distributed as pornography and all labeling on packages will be specific about the works intent. This product is intended for individuals/couples of varying sexualities who want more information on their bodies and sexuality.

To be considered for the DVD you must email your interest including name, telephone number, photos/directions to a website (no more than three photos that display basic physicality) and email address to the KylePhoenixShow[at]aol.com with “Model/Actor” in the Subject Line. You will receive back general questions, an application and request for pictures/resume (if necessary).

Your contact information should be current and applicable for at least 1 year as various filming is occurring around this and other projects and also to insure we can contact you if you are hired and product is to be sent to you.

The Kyle Phoenix ShowTM focuses on issues around sexuality, identity, motivation, parenting, finances, race and health for LGBT folk (particularly men of color) and is looking for YOU to help us educate men on how to care for their bodies and have more pleasurable, intense and satisfying intimate relationships. It has been on YouTube since 2008 and cable television since 2009 and is branching out to including worldwide DVD/downloadable distribution in 2010/2011.

Thank you,
Kyle Phoenix
The Kyle Phoenix Show
KylePhoenixShow[at]aol.com


•Location: New York City
•It's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
•Compensation: You will be made aware of the hourly/filming day rate (1 time flat rate for filming schedule of 6 to 8 hours) based upon how many models are needed for the final project, alerted when distribution online and in stores is to occur and sent a complimentary copy of the final product.

Same Gender Loving & Heterosexual Black MenNeeded For Cable Television Show

Same Gender Loving & Heterosexual Black Men
Needed For Cable Television Show

The Kyle Phoenix ShowTM, a cable show on Time Warner, RCN and Comcast is seeking men, particularly Men Of Color (Black, Latin, Asian, etc.) and those who love them, men who are willing to be interviewed on camera (either full face or shadowed) about their sexuality, their experiences, their thoughts, their goals. There will be a small $$$honorarium$$$ paid to each chosen participant.

To be considered for the show(s) you must email to the KylePhoenixShow[at]aol.com with “Interview” in the Subject Line. You will receive back some questions and/or surveys to be returned for consideration. The interviews will last/be taped for approximately 2-3 hours and you will be notified of the air dates if your interview segments are used.


The Kyle Phoenix ShowTM focuses on issues around sexuality, identity, motivation, parenting, finances, race and health for LGBTQ folk (particularly men of color) and is looking for YOU to help us educate men on how to care for their bodies and have more pleasurable, intense and satisfying intimate relationships. It has been on YouTube since 2008 and cable television since 2009 and is branching out to including worldwide DVD/downloadable distribution in 2010/2011.

Thank you,
Kyle Phoenix
The Kyle Phoenix Show
KylePhoenixShow[at]aol.com

•It's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
•Compensation: There will be a small $$$honorarium$$$ paid to each chosen participant.

Rare Photo Of Slave Children Found In Attic

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Rare Photo of Slave Children Found in Attic
Posted by Chauncey DeVega at 12:20 pm
June 11, 2010

A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy.

Art historians believe it’s an extremely rare Civil War-era photograph of children who were either slaves at the time or recently emancipated.

The photo, which may have been taken in the early 1860s, was a testament to a dark part of American history, said Will Stapp, a photographic historian and founding curator of the National Portrait Gallery’s photographs department at the Smithsonian Institution.

“It’s a very difficult and poignant piece of American history,” he said. “What you are looking at when you look at this photo are two boys who were victims of that history.”

In April, the photo was found at a moving sale in Charlotte, accompanied by a document detailing the sale of John for $1,150, not a small sum in 1854.

New York collector Keya Morgan said he paid $30,000 for the photo album including the photo of the young boys and several family pictures and $20,000 for the sale document. Morgan said the deceased owner of the home where the photo was found was thought to be a descendant of John.

A portrait of slave children is rare, Morgan said.

“I buy stuff all the time, but this shocked me,” he said.

What makes the picture an even more compelling find is that several art experts said it was created by the photography studio of Mathew Brady, a famous 19th-century photographer known for his portraits of historical figures such as President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Stapp said the photo was probably not taken by Brady himself but by Timothy O’Sullivan, one of Brady’s apprentices. O’Sullivan took a multitude of photos depicting the carnage of the Civil War.

In 1862, O’Sullivan famously photographed a group of some of the first slaves liberated after Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

Such photos were circulated in the North by abolitionists to garner support for the Union during the Civil War, said Harold Holzer, an author of several books about Lincoln. Holzer works as an administrator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Most of the photos depicted adult slaves who had been beaten or whipped, he said.

The photo of the two boys is more subtle, Holzer said, which may be why it wasn’t widely circulated and remained unpublished for so long.

“To me, it’s such a moving and astonishing picture,” he said.

Ron Soodalter, an author and member of the board of directors at the Abraham Lincoln Institute in Washington, D.C., said the photo depicts the reality of slavery.

“I think this picture shows that the institution of slavery didn’t pick or choose,” said Soodalter, who has written several books on historic and modern slavery. “This was a generic horror. It victimized the old, the young.”

For now, Morgan said, he is keeping the photo in his personal collection, but he said he has had an inquiry to sell the photo to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He said he is considering participating in the creation of a video documentary about John.

“This kid was abused and mistreated and people forgot about him,” Morgan said. “He doesn’t even exist in history. And to know that there were a million children who were like him. I’ve never seen another photo like that that speaks so much for children.”

Image of an 1854 document, provided by Keya Morgan,
detailing the sale of a slave named "John"
provides some insight into the horrors of the slave trade,
says collector Keya Morgan.
The document was found with some photos
at a moving sale in Charlotte, N.C.
(AP Photo/Courtesy of Keya Morgan, LincolnImages.com)

Sanctified Bigotry by Victor R. Pond

Dear all,

I was inspired to write this in response to so much hate and bigotry I see spewd in churches and society towards those considered "less than"......This is really a lament.

--
Victor R. Pond

Sanctified Bigotry
by Victor Pond

(A Guest Nubian Knight's Perspective)


When the wounded cry
you feign deafness
immune to the horror
laying at your feet
instead you step over it
not looking back
less it assault the sieve
that replaced your heart.

When the wounded cry
your mercy slither away
leaving the aching body
to desiccate and die
and with a smile
birthed in your own agony
you dust the guilt
from off your shoulders
convincing yourself
you are worshiping Jehovah.

When the wounded cry
your loathing blossoms
ornamenting your scattered compassion
.....so how would you answer
when God asks you
“why didn’t you love your brother?”

BMX-NY Presents Healing The Black Family: Bridging The Sexuality Divide A Rap With Hetero Brothers & Sisters Friday, June 11th @ 8PM

BMXNY.org


The Black Men's Xchange-New York
Invite You To Join Us

Healing The Black Family:
Bridging The Sexuality Divide
A Rap With Hetero Brothers & Sisters
with Guest Facilitator Cleo Manago


FRIDAY, JUNE 11th, 2010
@ 8PM

Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center
1942 Amsterdam Avenue @ The Corner of 156th Street
Harlem, New York City
212/862-3680
GOOGLE MAP


AMONG OTHER QUESTIONS, WE WILL CONSIDER:

- Why Is There Conflict Between Black People?

- What Is Black Manhood?

- What is Black Womanhood?

- Where Do These Constructs Come From, And How Do They Benefit Us?

- How Does The Way We Treat Each Other Influence Diverse Black Youth?

- What Is Your Perspective On Homosexuals? Where Did It Come From?

- Who Sees Or Has Seen Homosexuality As A Threat To The Black Family?

- How Does The Way We Think, Behave, And Treat Each Contribute To A Meaningful Black Legacy?

- Are We Involved In The Creation Of Strong Black People, Or Of More Disoriented, Disengaged Black Folk?


Hey Black Family,

I wanted to get the word out that BMX-NY (Black Men's Xchange-New York) will be partnering and meeting at Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center which is a Black-owned establishment in Harlem this Friday, June 11th, 2010 @ 8PM. The topic is Healing The Black Family: Bridging The Sexuality Divide - A Rap With Hetero Brothers & Sisters

Sister's Uptown Bookstore is located at 1942 Amsterdam Avenue @ the corner of 156th Street. The phone number to the store is 212/862-3680. You can get there by taking the #1 train to 157th Street or the "C" local train to 155th Street. Either train stop will put you only 2 blocks away from the bookstore. GOOGLE MAP - (DO NOT take the "B" or "D" train to 155th Street as this will put you too far (east) away from the bookstore and there's this huge and continuous (like) 200 stairs connected to a bridge that you'd have to climb. I've got caught in that situation twice and it's not cute at all. Trust me, unless you need the exercise!!).

I've been involved with BMX-NY for 7 years now (with a 1 or 2 year break inbetween) and I'm sending this email out to friends, family and colleagues because BMX really does progressive pro-Black work and one of the few Black same gender loving (homosexual, bisexual, transgendered) organizations to reach out to bridge the gaps within the larger Black community relative to diverse sexual identity of African people. I hope you can make it out and feel free to bring other Black brothers and sisters with you age 18 and up.

About BMX-NY...
http://www.bmxny.org/index.htm
http://www.bmxny.org/bmxabout.htm

BMX-NY is built on a philosophy that embraces same gender loving experience as an intrinsic facet of everyday Black life. Integral to BMX’s approach is the understanding that, in order to decrease internal and external homo-reactionary thinking and demystify differences around diverse ways of living, loving and being, same gender loving, bisexual and transgendered Black people must engage in supportive dialogue with each other and the community.

We believe that self-determination is crucial in achieving success toward healing and empowerment. We understand that our cultural and experiential uniqueness requires a uniquely focused and precise approach. Affirming strategies born out of our own experience are powerful; hence, the adoption of the terms, Black, African American and Same Gender Loving.

BLOOM: Children of The SunSummer Dance Party 2010Sunday, June 27th, 2010 6PM To 2AM

Get Tickets From The Official Website:
thebloomparty.com
Tickets From $10.00

BLOOM
Children of the Sun
Summer Dance Party 2010

THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN are the progeny of the Universe. The Milky Way, planets and stars are their toys. They are the healers, the ones who open gates to other worlds, inspire great music, literature and art. These beings colored the rainbow. They cannot be burned by fire, drowned by water, or buried by earth. on the last Sunday of June, at the Sun’s zenith, they emerge In full splendor to dance in plain view among mortals. And when they dance, sexiness, style, Afro-beat and artistry collide in a celebration of the Season of the Sun. Their ritual fuses art, burlesque, and paint-bedazzled bodies with house, afro-beat, reggae, dancehall & soca to create a pan-sexual celebration of all that gives life!

AILEMAJ had walked eastward, 10,000 light years across T’sonas to see the beauty of COSI. When she saw it she marveled at its light and symmetry. Though she was accustomed to unusual sights, to think that only one existed in all worlds made her tremble. Aexla, her brother, had told her that only five lifetimes ago he had embraced one at Eageydipd. Could this be the one she wondered? In the mythology of her tribe, only this star, appearing as it did once each year, had the power to make the Children dance. There before her now, it seemed to examine her as much as she it. In the distance she could hear the faint beating of drums, or was she imagining this... that soon, from the far reaches of the galaxy they would appear -- the seen and unseen -- at the crossroads of worlds entranced in dance.

Before leaving Melrah for the rendezous point, the notorious gender-bender Lubal checked his visage, clocked the travel time and looked firmly into the mirror; One last pose was in order. He had missed out on last year's bacchanalia having been banished to Rocdia for his vagabond ways and the misapplication of a spell or two. Transport had not been easy. The Susury winds of Primus 8 had blown the fluff puff delicately balanced on his head, un-nerving him. Now, having arrived, everything had to be double checked. The vamp of the universe could not be seen unkempt in the presence of COSI.

"Le'Rac the Light Shaper was busy molding stars and throwing them into the Sky across T’sonas. The great "dazzler"� knew that all eyes would be on him and his creation at COSI; Once again he would delight and entice. There he would dance shamelessly with his brothers and sisters wearing nothing but celestial star shine; but on this day, in preparation for the great festival, millions of new stars had to be formed and hung. His breath fired his imagination and the mantra he mumbled gave him the insight to create. He longed to see Alemaj and Xela again but the thought of encountering the outlaw Lubal unsettled him."



While Le'Rac was at T’sonas busy pelting stars into orbit around COSI, Amacaji - the silent one - was perched quietly on a mountain cliff on Primus 1. There he was directing with his mind the elements that would converge at COSI. It was he that would keep vigil over things there while never uttering a word. Revered for his oversight and high-mindedness he was also feared as a clever manipulator of people and events. It was he that had whispered into the ear of LeRac the mantra he spoke to create the stars of COSI; and it was he that had summoned I’raeda home. There from his perch he continued to call to COSI the wild tribe of Gatekeepers who would once again restore the balance of the worlds. But for now, each had an agenda of their own.

Universe's great Source. For him and his sibblings, the Milky Way, its planets and stars are their toys. To them the Universe gave great powers. They are the healers, the ones who open gates to other worlds, inspire great music, literature and art. These beings colored the rainbow. They cannot be burned by fire, drowned by water, or buried by earth. When you sense great beauty the children are near. They are "The Beautiful Ones." Not normally seen by human eyes, on the last Sunday of June each year, at the Sun’s zenith, they emerge in full splendor to dance in plain view among mortals. And when they dance, sexiness, style, Afro-beat and artistry collide in a celebration of the Season of the Sun. Their yearly ritual fuses art, burlesque, and paint-bedazzled bodies with house, afro-beat, reggae, dancehall & soca to create a pan-sexual celebration of all that gives life.

BLOOM
CHILDREN OF THE SUN (COSI)
SUMMER DANCE PARTY


SUNDAY, JUNE 27th, 2010
6PM - 12 MIDNIGHT
Tickets From $10.00
TICKETS HERE


SANTOS PARTY HOUSE
96 Lafayette Street
(between Walker and White Streets)
GOOGLE MAP

TRAVEL:
A, C, E, N, Q and #1 Trains To Canal Street

Music By:
FDJ Afrika, DavidLaBoy & DJ Spindrew
Main Floor Spinning:
Soul, Tribal, and Deep House

Lower Level Spinning:
Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall & Soca


Featuring
THe BEAUTIFUL ONES

Male & Female Go-Go Dancers
Body Paint Artists, Fine Artists, Video Stimulation And More!

Get Tickets At The Official Website:

thebloomparty.com

THE PARTY HAPPENS on Sunday, June 27th, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. at SANTOS PARTY HOUSE, located at 96 Lafayette Street, between White and Walker (one block east of B'way, two blocks south of Canal St). BLOOM features live DJs - DJ Afrika & DJ Spindrew, The Beautiful Ones - male & female go-go dancers - body paint artists, visual fine art, video installation and performance art. Tickets $10 online until June 7; $15 online until June 27; $20 at the door before 10PM; $25 after.

TICKETS ON SALE ONLINE NOW!

Race-Talk: What If There Is No Recovery?

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What if there is no recovery?
Featured — By Eric Stiens on January 26, 2010 at 7:34 am

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist” — Kenneth Boulding

“The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.” — FDR

For years, economists and others have tried to avoid the question of what a just and fair distribution of wealth would look like by holding tight to the tacit assumption of unlimited exponential growth of both the US economy and the global economy. This is not only the worldview of trickle-down economics or of the American Right. It is also the worldview of poverty alleviation strategies (from the individual to international development) that rely on theories of change that move people up the existing economic ladder – as if, with the right combination of asset-building, credit, and education, all people can eventually become middle-class, or, with a little fiscal austerity and the right public policies, all countries can eventually consume as much per capita as the United States.

Even those strenuously arguing that we must change how we are cutting the pie slices rarely question the need for (or the ability of) the overall pie to grow. Yet the protracted global economic downturn must give us pause to at least ask, “What happens if the pie cannot grow? What happens if the pie must shrink?” What would justice and equity look like in a global economy that must go through a long and deep contraction? What if that contraction, in fact, is permanent?

Most of the debate around the recovery has been about what it will look like – V shaped or W-shaped, quick or slow, jobless or not. We have had discussions (but not enough) about what we must do to make sure that the various stimulus plans lessen racial disparities rather than exacerbate them. However, the presence of something called “recovery” has not been questioned. Instead, it has been taken for granted that this downtown is the result of the unwinding of a speculative bubble centered in real-estate and that it would eventually hit bottom and turn around.

Yet, in the great scheme of things, this is a small speculative bubble. The past hundred (or 300, depending on how you look at it) years have seen massive exponential growth in population, in resource use, in wealth – driven by our access to what has been nearly-free energy. We found a way to turns billions of years of fossil-fuels into a seemingly unlimited piggy bank and made up stories about unending progress, the triumph of technology, manifest destiny, etc to justify our use of it. The ruling class, acting as ruling classes do, found a way to siphon tremendous amounts of this wealth up to the top of the pyramid.

To put it bluntly, there is a chance (how large that chance is is left up to the judgment of the reader), that there will be no return to business as usual, no return to an economy driven by unsustainable amounts of debt and resource use, no way to return to the economic growth that we have come to view as essential. That between global climate change and the peaking of various resource extraction rates (oil the key one), we are globally stuck between a rock and a hard place. That there will be no recovery, at least if recovery is a synonym for a return to the ways things were two years ago.

Our reluctance to accept industrial collapse as a possibility comes from not only a shortsightedness that thinks the last 40 years can be repeated over and over without a Great Depression, but that the last 300-500 years can be replayed over and over – that industrial civilization and Western style capitalism and democracy is the pinnacle of human achievement and things are, with some lulls, always on their way up. It is, quite simply, a type of denial.

The incredible affluence of the American Empire and the process of Industrialization has always required systematic denial just as surely as it has required oil and the specialization of labor.

A denial of the slavery and genocide that it was built upon. A denial of limits to growth and ecological boundaries. A denial of the extreme wealth concentration it made possible, and the denial that we live in a society that much more closely resembles a plutocracy than a meritocracy.

A denial of the connection between wealthy white suburbs and concentrated Black poverty present in the inner-core of most cities.

A denial of the exploitation that has always gone hand in hand with expansion – coal miners dead of black lung, strikers shot by police, children working 15 hours a day in sweatshops, indigenous peoples the world over wiped out so we could have access to their resources.

A denial of the control apparatuses of the State – the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex, with their disproportionate effects on communities (and nations) of color.

And lastly, denial of the incredible psychic and emotional toll that living so far out of balance with the earth and out of relationship with each other has created – the hollow emptiness of 21st Century affluence.

However, even if we are now in the decline phase of the industrial process, this does not give as an excuse not to talk about justice and equity. I am not proposing handwringing or absolving anyone of responsibilities (“Well, if things are that bad, there’s nothing we can do.”) If anything, it makes it more essential, and it may just make it possible to root this discussion in worldview that is less consumed by denial and desire and more in touch with the truths of being part of multiple communities – human and non-human.

I believe that, for those of us with privilege, much of our unwillingness to talk deeply and seriously about what a just and equitable world would look like comes from a deep seated fear that things are going to be taken from us. When it becomes clear that those things are disappearing whether we like it or not, it provides space to move beyond that fear into the world of possibilities behind it. As the myths and stories that have propped up the 20th century begin to crumble, we will have the opportunity to write new stories, to create new myths – to literally create new selves.

Over the next few months I hope to talk about what systems thinking and systems science methodologies have to offer racial justice activists and social scientists examining racial disparities. However, I would be remiss as a systems thinker if I did not use my first blog post to draw attention to the elephant in the room – limits to growth and the inevitable failure of any socioeconomic system that relies on unlimited growth to sustain itself.

N.B. While I was writing this post, this headline came over my feed reader. BBC – Economic Growth Cannot Continue
Written by: Eric Stiens on January 26, 2010.