ATLANTA, Ga - What happens when technology, sex, knowledge, and power enable women to meet up, act up, and hook up like never before? These questions and more are the focus of the Sex 2.0 unconference in Atlanta, Georgia on April 12th, 2008. Held at the Spring4th Center, the unconference will feature conversations among activists, social networking pioneers, bloggers, swingers, cruisers, sex futurists and kinksters who have been sexing up Web 2.0 from the beginning -- whether in Bangalore or Bangor, Maine.
Maybe you've heard of Web sites like Facebook, Craigslist, or Flickr. They're all social networking sites, the heart of a revolution in the way people produce and share knowledge, make friends, reach out for support, and create professional and personal networks.
When women need help with health, sexual, or personal problems, where do they turn? In a recent Pew Poll, researchers found that women were more likely to turn to the Web for knowledge and support. (Reference: Pew Internet & American Life Project, "How Women and Men Use the Internet," online at http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Women_and_Men_online.pdf).
It's that heady combination of technology, sex, and knowledge in the hands of women (and men) that fascinates Amber Rhea, the well-known Atlanta area tech/sex blogger who instigated the event. She's not alone. The grassroots unconference will explore these issues with notable and notorious web-based activists such as:
- Hear Audacia Ray, editor of $pread Magazine for sex workers and author of an important new book on sex and women online, Naked on the Internet
- Explore sexual relationships that spring from online meeting places like blogs and forums in sessions with sex futurist Melissa Gira who runs the award-winning sex blog, Sexerati, and contributes to $pread, WHORE! magazine, Best Sex Writing 2008, and Dirty Girls
- Make history with T.A. Hines' session, A Brief History of Sex. Hines is the irreverent, popular podcaster who chronicles her funky brown chick take on sex and New York City, Dating Roadkill.
- Tempt your inner erotic writer with sex bloggers and writers like Rachel Kramer Bussel, who keeps things tingling at Nerve.com, and Viviane, host of the NYC-based gathering for writers, the Perverts' Salon
- Mix it up with j. brotherlove, Joseph G., Minx, Graydancer, and Ren who'll host rollicking sessions about online dating, cruising, hooking up, BDSM, and swinging whether for kinksters, sexual, ethnic and racial minorities, straight, curious, and in-between
Amber Rhea, the unconference (un)organizer, says she wants the interactive sessions to be a place where people make the experience they need: "This is not your father's sex conference," said Rhea. "An unconference belongs to the people who come -- double entendre intended." People are often puzzled by an unconference, said Rhea, but it's almost always an experience that makes wish you never have to attend an ordinary conference again. "You won't be in a room, sitting on your hands, waiting for the discussion session. It's just like sex, really: a powerful interaction between people that makes it more than the people involved."
The event costs $10.00, with the rest of the cost underwritten by volunteers and sponsors. There are still opportunities for sponsors who want to reach their audience, people at the center of a new media that's changing the way we live. Rhea thinks that the approach will attract a wide audience: "Everyone will be there to both raise and answer questions, teach and learn -- you can do both in one session. It's up to you."
Do you need to know more? Visit the Sex 2.0 Web site at http://www.sex20con.com or contact Amber Rhea at amber at gapodcastnetwork.com.
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Hey all,
We're organizing a conference in Atlanta, Sex 2.0.
We were going to hold it at the Spring4th, with a block of rooms at the Renaissance (Marriot). However, some stupid city licensing stuff is going down (as I understand it) and the Spring4th may be going out of business.
Do any Atlantans know of meeting places that could handle a small conference of about 200 ppl that wouldn't cost us an arm and leg? Ideally, it should be near Spring4th, but we'll work on getting shuttle vans if we have to find a place elsewhere.
Thanks,
bl (bitch)
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