Come As You Are (from Vol. 3, Is. 3)

Come As You Are is Canada’s co-operative sex store. Located on Queen Street West in Toronto, CAYA Co-operative is worker owned and operated and our approach to sexuality is one of respect, openness, humour, communication and responsibility.

http://www.comeasyouare.com/

FAST FEMINISM, by Dr. Shannon Bell (from Vol. 3, Is. 1)

FAST FEMINISM is a new-old feminism grounded in politics, performance, and philosophy.  It is in close proximity to postfeminisms of the poststructuralist variety—third-wave feminism, queer feminism, cyberfeminism, and feminism 3.0.

While FAST FEMINISM operates in proximity to other feminisms, its ‘natural’ home is in queer theory.  Queer gets its meaning and its politics from its oppositional relationship to hegemonic norms.  To queer something is to disrupt it, to put it under scrutiny, and to attempt to change it.  FAST FEMINISM takes the hypermasculine speed of Paul Virilio and makes it feminist.  FAST FEMINISM is the bastard offspring and the happy accident of speed theory.

FAST FEMINISM is a philo-porno-political practice—a pragmatic philosophy and politics—enacted by the pornographic sage who moves through the text as “FF.”  Fast feminist event sites include female ejaculation, drag-kinging, an infamous child-pornography tiral, Bataillean fucking at a women’s bathhouse, posthuman-humachine seduction, and sex organ tissue-engineering.

Bell is an associate professor at York University’s Political Science department, Toronto, Canada.  She teaches modern and postcontemporary theory, cyberpolitics, postidentity politics, aesthetics and politics, violent philosophy, and fast feminism.