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Raven Kaldera
Raven Kaldera
is a farmer, homesteader, intersex FTM activist, homeschooling parent, pagan minister, pornographer, and part-time ruler of a very small kingdom. He is the co-editor, with Hanne Blank, of Best Transgender Erotica, the
co-author, with Tannin Schwartzstein, of Handbook for the Urban Primitive, and author of Hermaphrodeities: the Transgender Spirituality Workbook, as well as more good smut than you can shake a
stick at.

 
nonfiction
09.30.03: essay & commentary
When Sex Is a Drag
There's an assumption that drag queens, in general, ought probably to prefer to have sex as women, or porn-style "she-males". After all, people reason, since gender is all tied up with sex, then cross-gender dressing must be sexual in nature, so why dress up like that unless you wanted to be the opposite sex in bed? Of course, in real life, it's never that simple.

09.16.02:
essay & commentary
Earthbound
Day and night, the milkings, bracketing each day like sunrise and sunset. The day milking, when I come out into green-and-blue daylight, or perhaps grey rain; the night milking where I stare at stars.

02.13.02:
essay & commentary
Confessions of an Obsessive Witness
 
For me, well, Light Had Dawned. I had learned something key about both myself and them. Being a writer was the thing that set me apart from the crowd, above the melee. It made me special; it protected me from injury. I know that war correspondents are not nearly so lucky in the adult world, but it sure worked in the fourth grade.

02.13.02:
essay & commentary
Double Cross
I'm an intersexual, raised female and transitioned to male, which makes me transgendered as well. My wife Bella is a male-to-female transsexual. We are legally married, and have been together for almost a decade, and we still don't quite feel straight. And we still don't fit in anywhere.

Raven in the Archives: Fall 2000 - present


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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