The Authors

Amber | Bevin | Catalina Loves | Ellie Lumpesse | Essin’ Em | Hussy Red | Lady M | Miss Avarice
Ms. Hinterland | Roxy Harte | Sassafras Lowrey | Scarlet Lotus Sexgeek

Amber is a twentysomething pansexual tomboy femme switch on an unceasing quest for ever more knowledge and insight. She runs her own blog, Dark Deep & Deviant in addition to being a contributor on Kinky Sex Link and, of course, this fabulous project! She enjoys bellydancing, reading, watching movies, and of course getting good ‘n’ kinky! She enjoys tying up and flogging her androgynobutch girlfriend, and is looking forward to her own first experience as a bottom.

Bevin is the producer and host of FemmeCast: The Queer Fat Femme Podcast Guide to Life and also blogs on the same subject at The Queer Fat Femme Guide to Life. She is a flamboyant femmecee, queer high femme, drag king, burlesque and comedy performer. She also co-produces and hosts Gayety, a Queer Comedy Cabaret based in New York City. She is a member of NOLOSE, Fat and Queer NYC and Volunteer coordinator for Jersey City Pride. She was a founding member and producer of the Royal Renegades of Philadelphia, a drag troupe that performed throughout the US and Canada. Her interests include travel, knitting, cupcakes, music, her shih tzu and community building.

Catalina is a professional sex writer, adult content marketing consultant, blog designer, and dominatrix. She writes six of her own blogs and contributes to seven others, her central blog being Catalina Loves. She is the editor of The Week In Kink, a weekly digest of her favorite kinky posts of the week and The Good Things List, a weekly list of recommended sites. Her latest projects are launching bestsexbloggers.com and writing a book about her experiences as a sex worker, sex writer, sexy wife, and soccer mom. There isn’t a day that goes by that Catalina is immersed in the lifestyle, either through her own personal experiences as a switch or a professional in the sex industry. When she is not at work or play in the scene, she’s playing with her children, running, doing yoga, or just enjoying some non-work related online fun.

Ellie Lumpesse is a pretentious pervert has been writing about her thoughts on sex, BDSM, relationships, non-monogamy, feminism, and rhetoric since March of 2005 and juggles graduate school and teaching with her blogging and podcasting. She started doing phone sex at the request of readers and podcast listeners and, as such, is lucky to have the best phone sex clients in the entire world. Her blog is at Lumpesse.com and her podcast of smut and audio musings is found at bedroomradio.blogspot.com.

Essin’ Em is a kinky, queer, non-monogamous, feminist, politically active, sex-educator Femme, with a bit of a twisted sense of humor. Her sexuality blog can be found at www.Essin-Em.com. She spends her time pondering sex, sexuality, the gender spectrum, non-traditional relationships, sex toys, erotic writing, queer sexuality, new definitions of feminism and more. In the real world, she has Master’s in Human Sexuality Education, and does work both online and face-to-face, educating people in a variety of ways about a variety of subjects. You can see her erotica published in Wetter, as well as on her blog. She is a contributor to www.BestSexBloggers.com, www.LiveGirlReview.com, and www.EdenFantasys.com, and is working on several other projects on the side. Additionally, she’s part of the advice panel at www.TheLesbianLifestyle.com. In the past, she has worked as an advice columnist and movie reviewer for www.HotMoviesForHer.com, and as a community outreach coordinator for EdenFantasys. In her free time, she’s a mother to two kitties, and is a roller derby referee, which is the best sport ever invented. Her apartment is a hodgepodge of sexuality books, porn, sex toys, British mysteries and tea – whatever else might you need in life?

Hussy Red writes to you from the charming city of Minneapolis, MN, though her roots remain firmly planted back East in the Garden State where she was born and raised. She is a fourth year Ph.D. student in gender studies focusing on feminist and queer theories and their intersections with new media and fat studies. When she’s not working on her dissertation research on the neo-burlesque movement, Hussy Red keeps busy as the editor of the forthcoming first fat, queer anthology, Spilling Over. She identifies as a fierce, fat, sex- and kink-postiive femme invested in merging her academic dreams with her activist heart. In her spare time, she enjoys causing queer upheaval with her femme sisters and allies in the Twin Cities chapter of the Femme Mafia, teaching butches how to slow dance, and attending cake decorating workshops with Midwestern soccer moms. She is an avid fan of Fig Newtons, yard sales, wooing, and fan mail. Hussy Red also blogs at Femme FATale.

Lady M is a recently femme, deliciously queer chubby writer, baker, and feminist who creates a home wherever her bra lands. Currently teaching in Michigan, she is planning to pursue her PhD in the fall of 2009, focusing on fat embodiments and non-normative sexualities in Arab and Arab-American communities. Lady M enjoys good beer, dirty gossip, and smart TV. In between episodes of 30Rock, she writes academic/creative non-fiction and poetry, sends real live USPS letters, stuffs a mean turkey, looks a fool on the dance floor, sneaks food from her Mama’s kitchen, and manages the destruction wrought by her two charming but evil cats, Lolita and Finnian. She is looking forward to exploring her new femme-ininity and connecting with such an amazing and supportive queer community.

Miss Avarice is a queer, kinky, inquisitive and sexy femme who’s learning to stamp her feet proudly in high heels, she’s a fierce lover and a loyal friend who hates it when people don’t love themselves as she loves them. In real life, Miss Avarice is a Women’s Studies major from Florida who’s always on the lookout for someone to talk smart and dirty to her. She also blogs at Miss Avarice Speaks Her Mind.

Ms. Hinterland is a crafty lady femme who resides in rural area just slightly outside the metro Atlanta urban sprawl. While she’s the prissy, fussy sort and who simply must have on an apron on to cook, she is tough enough to haul heavy objects, own her own Dewalt drill, and cheerfully change a friend’s tire. She has a keen love for junkin’, and warns that anyone who rides in her car had best be ready to lift random old furniture into her hatchback. Ms. Hinterland adores cupcakes, crafting, reading, gender, sex, butches, and red lipstick. You can read more of writings at The Femme Hinterland.

Roxy Harte is an erotica writer, exploring the emotional and psychological elements of relationships immersed in BDSM, LGBT, and polyamorous lifestyles in her novels. She is currently published at Liquid Silver Books and Loose-Id Publishing. Excerpts from many of her books can be found at www.roxyharte.com. She also writes Roxy’s Flog Blog and contributes to four others. She hosts a live chat about reading erotica, writing erotica, being bisexual, and BDSM play at Roxy Harte Live.

Of her sexuality, she admits that she was a boi until she was told it was inappropriate to be both a mother and a boi, sadly giving into that lie until the day came that she decided she could grow a set of balls big enough that she could be Femme all of the time and lust after boi’s and dykes to her hearts content, and sometimes pack and strap-on to remind herself what it once felt like to be just a carefree boi. Growing up in a small town in Ohio, she came out as bisexual in 1978. She has been active in the BDSM community since 1999.

Sassafras Lowrey is a genderqueer high femme, militant storyteller, author, artist, and activist. Ze believe that everyone has a story to tell, and that the telling of those stories is essential to creating social change. An accomplished storyteller, ze was an original member of “The Language of Paradox” founded and directed by Kate Bornstein, contributor to numerous anthologies including: LGBTQ: America Today, The Femme Coloring Book, Gendered Hearts, and Visible: A Femmethology. Sassafras and was honored as one of Portland’s top emerging writers by In Other Words feminist books in 2004, and is the editor of the highly anticipated Kicked Out anthology (Fall 2009) from Homofactus Press. Sassafras is also the author of GSA to Marriage: Stories of a Life Lived Queerly (Homofactus Press, Summer 2010). Ze lives in New York City with hir partner, two puddle-shaped cats, and a princess dog. www.pomofreakshow.com

Scarlet Lotus Sexgeek is a genderqueer femme drag queen fagette and queer intellisexual polyamorous switch (cuntpet and Domina). Her gender expression usually comes out within a femme drag queen framework, but she does not believe in confining her gender to one category, or binary gender labels, and is just as comfortable in her pinstripe suit and doc’s as she is in a dress and heels.

She has degrees in both Gender Studies and Psychology, both with an emphasis in sexuality, and is currently working toward a Ph.D in Human Sexuality. She is a sex worker, a kink, queer, and sex educator, as well as sex-positive queer, trans, and feminist activist. Her spirituality comes in the form of sacred whoredom, scarlet womanhood, occultism, and magik. She blogs at The Femmeinist Fucktoy, The Best Sex Bloggers, and Kinky Sex Link, and is also the producer of The Sacred and Shameless Sexcast.