Lesbian Crushes [Original]

"It's standard practice for Hollywood stars to thank friends and family when accepting awards. But when Jodie Foster paid tribute to "my beautiful Cydney" during a speech at the Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment breakfast last week, it caused a ripple of excitement.

"So now we know. Jodie Foster's partner of at least 15 years is a woman."

This quote reminded me of a tendency found in many lesbian relationships. Women tend to be terribly gushy about each other. Was Jodie Foster's "my beautiful Cydney" really necessary. Why "beautiful." Do We really want to know that? Wouldn't "my partner, Cydney" be enough?

I recently came across the following site, promoting a book of photos called Lesbian Sacred Sexuality. Sacred? That sure tops "beautiful."

Here's a puff from Celeste West, author of Lesbian Love Advisor:

With vibrant double kiss, our words of sex and spirituality are always lip to lip : ecstasy, communion, surrender, passion, mystery, devotion. As St Theresa said, "All the way to heaven is heaven."

In the poetic text of Lesbian Sacred Sexuality, flesh plumes, the interior castle glistens.

Buddha women enkindle the breath within the breath, warming spine wine, mandala eyes penetrate.

Here, Lesbian camera subjects, unlike models, open their soft core, teaching how the mind tells stories, how the body forgives. One question: Just where is this dark room of photographer Marcelina Martin?

A fragrant cedar forest where lightening struck a rushing mountain stream, releasing the essence of heavenly fire? To her anointments of light, I offer salty incense as valleys overflow.

It's just too "beautiful." Lesbians idealize love. It's all a bit adolescent. Gay men cruise for sex. Lesbians get crushes.

Here's a brief excerpt from the introduction: The dominant view of sexuality in our society is anti-erotic. We are constantly overwhelmed by images that reinforce how the physical has been separated from the psychic, emotional, and spiritual connection.

Our sense of the grace of sexuality becomes lost. Restoring the erotic as wholesome is difficult because it has been distorted through power-over interactions, violence as sex, and lust without reverence.

To experience dynamic relatedness and to integrate one's sexuality and spirituality are huge contributions to the evolution of life-affirming consciousness.

Mindfulness about our true attitudes towards ourselves and our sexuality is particularly essential for the lesbian community.

We have endured many kinds of oppression, but hatred has focused mainly on our sexuality. Most of us have not escaped internalized homophobia.

In order to transform these injurious images and feelings, we must ferret out and replace the negative with the life-affirming.

By imaging ourselves as whole in our own visual language, we dissolve the prevalent, spurious definitions of our lives.Making contact with the sacred and committing our sexuality to the realm of spiritual practice is the primary focus of Lesbian Sacred Sexuality.

We can imbue our lives with love and devotion to the sacred and to wholeness. To experience the interconnectedness of all life, our perception of Eros, or self-preservation, is changed forever.

Developing this state of reverence towards all life is a great contribution towards preserving and healing our planet.

The Republican's Iran option is off the table

The NIE report may well prove a key element in throwing the election to the Democrats.

Republicans have used the alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran to scare the American public and to turn attention away from Iraq, economic troubles and Republican scandals.

But the NIE findings have pulled the rug out from under the Grand Old Party.

The noisy, confusing US presidential campaign

Nineteen sixty-eight was a vintage year, as was 1992. And, I confidently predict, 2008 will be one too. I am not speaking of fine bottles of Chateau Lafite but rather US presidential politics.

The campaign that will culminate on November 4 is already shaping up as a classic, replete with the requisite elements of a cracking contest: a gaggle of intriguing candidates with complicated histories, volatility in the electorate, and an unpredictable result.

And up for grabs is the leadership of the world's sole superpower. The stakes could not be higher - for Americans and for everyone else.

Don't Believe the Iowa Polls

With just a few weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, polls are providing pundits and political junkies with fresh data to spin out a new round of the usual “who’s up, who’s down” campaign coverage. But while the press seems settled on a new narrative for the campaign, journalists should recall what the polls told them last time around about who would likely win the Iowa caucuses.

Only One Thing Unites Iraq: Hatred of the US

As British forces come to the end of their role in Iraq, what sort of country do they leave behind? Has the United States turned the tide in Baghdad?

Does the fall in violence mean that the country is stabilising after more than four years of war? Or are we seeing only a temporary pause in the fighting?

American commentators are generally making the same mistake that they have made since the invasion of Iraq was first contemplated five years ago. They look at Iraq in over-simple terms and exaggerate the extent to which the US is making the political weather and is in control of events there.

Sex & Repression: Christian 'Fundies' Adopt the Missionary Position

They do not trust their own urges, their capacity for self-restraint or judgment. The Christian right forces its followers to project evil outward, a convenient escape for people unable to face the darkness and psychological torments within them.

Jodie Foster Finally Comes Out

So now we know. Jodie Foster's partner of at least 15 years is a woman. Just like Jodie. That's right, folks: Jodie Foster is a lesbian. This startling piece of news is akin to the shock revelation that Rudolph the Reindeer has a very shiny nose.

Necessary Illusions: The Myth of "America"

Why do so many amongst the poor and working class of the United States embrace the spiritual cancers of consumerism, patriotism, nationalism, blind allegiance to corporations, and delusional thinking so readily proffered by "the persuaders"?

TV Fucks with Your Mind

Have you noticed how TV pervades public places in the United States? TV monitors broadcast programs constantly in airports, train stations, bars, fast food areas and cafeterias on college and university campuses, elevators, and many restaurants.

Endless Exploitation: MTV 'Freelancers' Walk Out

Lots of stories from people who've been employed at MTV Networks for years as permalancers. "Mike G" tells me he's been working production at VH1 for 5 years. "The ratings are up, the revenue is up, and we're the ones taking the cuts."

Oprah Pimps for Obama: What a Fucking Farce!

Telling her audience this was her first venture into politics, Oprah declared, “I’m sick of politics as usual. We need Barack Obama.” There is a farcical character to this entire performance. Obama is just another conventional bourgeois politician.

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