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Heather Corinna is the queer founder and Editor-in-Chief of Scarlet Letters, Femmerotic and Scarleteen. Her work in sexuality has appeared online in numerous venues,
and her fiction and creative nonfiction in Viscera, Aqua Erotica, Zaftig: An Anthology of Well-Rounded Erotica 1 & 2, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Shameless and Penthouse magazine. Her photographic work can be found at Scarlet Letters, Jane's Guide, Michelle7, Babes in Toyland, On
Our Backs (forthcoming) and at her extensive personal site, which houses a mammoth archive of her nonfiction, prose and
poetry as well as her online journal. |
She has also shown her photographic work at a recent gallery show
at BECAUSE in Minneapolis.
Heather's work in sexuality has hailed accolades from The Industry Standard to the Illinois Library Association, The City Pages to Playboy, and from the Utne Reader to the Kinsey Institute. She lives in a coffee-laden neighborhood
in Minneapolis with an extensive zoo, a painfully darling pug,
many freckles, and is a certified Jill of All Trades; having juggled
vocations from sex authoring to teaching Kindergarten, from selling
bean sprouts to walking the streets of downtown Chicago in a giant
lobster suit; and with wide and varied backgrounds in everything
from jazz, folk and classical music to criminolgy to the history
of kitsch in the western world. She is currently at work on so
many projects that she can't begin to keep track, courts octagenarians,
boxes, has a major heart-on for crew-cut butches, and cannot ever
seem to keep a single matching pair of socks. |
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11.09.03
photography
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08.27.01
photography |
04.19.02
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02.14.03
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07.18.01
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12.23.02
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08.27.03: interview & commentary
Dragged, Kicking and Screaming: Dykes Do Drag |
| From the onset, Dykes Do Drag has been mixed gender, mixed orientation,
mixed identity and mixed media. Some of that diversity may well
lie in how Spear defines the term "dyke." She doesn't see it as
a sexual identifier so much as a holistic identity, encompassing
social consciousness and awareness, political activism, challenging
the boundaries of cultural and sexual programming, and an embracing
of sexuality as well as sexual creativity and whimsy. That given,
the "dykes" at DDD are not all biologically female or even female
identified. They're also not all lesbian. |
05.05.03: creative nonfiction
On Your Mark |
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| They're the wardrobe door to my private Narnia. I look at them,
touch them, someone else sees them and asks or gasps and I'm right
back inside the last fevered place I left... Just one glance in
the mirror and the room smells like you, of fresh-mowed grass
and laundry soap on velvety, worn cotton. The smallest touch of
this sore spot or that one and you're here: your eyes shut tight,
lower lip sucked in slightly, the baby chick fuzz of your just-shorn
hair tickling my nipples and thighs. |
01.26.03: porn review
They're Giving Me Good Vibrations: Please Don't Stop, Slide Bi Me, and Voluptuous Vixens Rock My World |
| If it comes as a shock to you that some of the most sex-positive,
diverse, and educational smut I've ever seen comes from the folks
at Good Vibrations (via Sexpositive Productions), you haven't been paying attention for the last decade or so.
If it's even more surprising that the videos coming out of Good
Vibrations are not only all of those things, but fun, funky, real,
playful, kinky, explicit and incredibly hot? Well, it's high time
you start paying attention, lest you miss out. |
01.22.03: essay & commentary
For Jane and Sarah, On Their 30th Birthday |
| I didn't have an abortion because I was pregnant due to rape or
incest. I didn't have an abortion solely because of finances.
I didn't have an abortion because I didn't want to ever have children.
I didn't have an abortion because of medical reasons. I had an
abortion because I did not want to bear or parent a child. |
07.18.02: book review
Don't Miss This Tour Bus: The Clitourist
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What if there was a book which looked like a cross between a coloring
book and hip coffeehouse paintings, and read like both a talk
with your best friend and postmodern fairy tale? What if each
page was a complete work of art and a joyride that supplied an
entertaining, thorough and user-friendly tour of... your clitoris?
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04.11.02: essay & commentary
Heather Corinna & Hanne Blank: A Calm View from the Eye of the Storm
On hysteria, youth, and sexuality |
| As we should all be aware from thousands of years of human history,
youth sexuality poses no real threat to us when it is entered
into and developed responsibly and compassionately. It is, in
fact, biologically inevitable that we develop sexually at puberty
in physical ways. Historically, the advent of sexual activity,
both masturbatory and partnered, has generally been assumed to
be a natural adjunct of this physical development. Almost all
cultures, whether primitive or modern, devise social structures
and meanings around both the physical process of sexual maturation
and around sexual activity. |
10.18.01: essay & commentary
Chronology of a Fixation |
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| Bring me the boys who are rough around the edges, but sweet as
sugar inside, the boys who paint or play guitar or write with
a powerful voice but speak low and softly. Bring me these boys
first thing in the morning, when they wake, their eyes full of
sleep and their hair a rat's nest; before they've showered, not
after. |
2001 - reprint: essay & commentary
Rage of Consent
Youth Sexuality and Abuse Hysteria |
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| Apparently it is acceptable to objectify and sexualize teens for
fun and profit on the part of an adult, yet it is NOT acceptable
for young men and women to discover their own sexuality, to empower
themselves with it, and to make choices regarding relationships
and that sexuality. |
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02.20.02: poetry
homespun • hail to the pure |
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It's best to give blow jobs here
in back alleys. Give me an alley,
a dirt road, a couch one spring loose
before a four-poster. Give me
the smell of tobacco and diesel juice,
hands tight in my hair... |
More Heather in the Archives: 1998 - present: all issues |
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12.07.06: Scarlet Letters -- in case it isn't glaringly obvious -- is currently
on an extended hiatus. The web has changed, we've changed, and
we're trying to figure out how we both fit together now, which isn't a process we want to rush.
In the meantime, by all means, enjoy our years of past content,
all of which still remain in the public and subscription areas.
If you're looking for more current SL-related content, you can
have check out upcoming books from editor Heather Corinna and previous co-editor Hanne Blank, check out Heather's current sexuality sites, or explore sites through the femmerotic network. We hope to be back with you soon, as fresh, challenging and
unexpected as ever.
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