Oh, man. I am over the moon for this one! Literary hero, feminist s/hero, and all around cool ass babe, Inga Muscio will be calling into our li’l SG Radio family on Sunday, March 25th. Why the hell am I givin’ you so much notice?! Well, because, if you’re like me, your life was completely shifted by her seminal piece of paperbound genius, “Cunt.”

And, if not… I want to give you time to buy/rent it before March 25th! “Cunt” was the book that nearly got me fired from a temp job when I was 21, and stupidly paraded it around the office of a company that hired me to be a phone monkey. It was many moons ago, but there I was in my floor length skirts and tights tank tops, answering multiple lines at a spot that designed sets for wrap parties. Intermittently stealing glances and nearly rip-turning pages from this illicitly-feminist book! (Not to mention taking walk-breaks during lunch and being mistaken for a porn star — our offices resided cozily beside a porn set. No, I wish I was kidding.)

In addition, my debut monologue for Eve Ensler’s off-the-hook The Vagina Monologues at the DGA in ’07 was the piece “Cunt.” Coincidence? I think not…

Anyway, Inga is supa-cool, so read her work, dig her digs, and become a fan STAT. Then, tune into our special, sexxxy radio show at www.indie1031.com Sundays 10pm-midnight and by all means spread the word! Pssst… I <3 fanmail.

Kiss!
Ddj xx

My friend Mia Tyler will be exhibiting her first batch of photos at a string of galleries in NYC.
Debut is this Saturday, Feb. 25th. She’s an incredible lady, and fashion designer, and of course, rock royalty. (Steven Tyler is her dada.) Read our interview, and by all means, stop jacking off and go see her show!

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. ~Audrey Hepburn

BEAUTY RISES FROM THE ASHES: Up Close and Personal with Adult Film Icon Nina Hartley

Unless you live under a rock, or were raised in a Big Love-type compound, then you’ve probably heard of adult film star, sex positive activist, author, hottie, feminist, and nurse, Nina Hartley (or at least fawned over her ass, unknowingly). She was a guest on SuicideGirls Radio earthier this month, and was so astoundingly on-point about sex and sensuality, that I couldn’t help but probe her some more. She’s been in hundreds of adult films, played William H. Macy’s wife in heat in Boogie Nights, and appeared on Oprah in defense of blue movies; but what stands out most is her eloquence. Listen in as Hartley describes open relationships, commodifying oneself in the name of success, and where Jenna Jameson may have gone wrong.

Please read and add your scrumptious comments to my new monthly installment for SuicideGirls.  RED WHITE AND FEMME: NINA HARTLEY

XOX

PETA is famous for its controversy-lovin’ ad campaigns, like the saucy “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” series, which has included everybody from A-listers Eva Mendes and Christy Turlington, to TV hotties Pamela Anderson, David “the Hoff” Hasselhoff and Olivia Munn. Last year, they even celebrated porn star Sasha Grey in a pro-spay and neuter campaign.

And, I think they’re responsible for freeing animals locked up in unfair and archaic laboratories for animal testing and giving out free kits on ‘how to become a vegetarian’ but I’m not totally sure. Know why? Because the hoopla and mixed reviews about their in-house politics, the real agenda of founder Ingrid Newkirk, and their divisive demonstrations, staged around nude women covered in faux blood and wrapped up like meat in life-size styrofoam trays, upstages good intentions and honestly, gives all vegetarians a bad name.

Recently, those quirky root vegetable lovers over at PETA thought it might be fun to show the unexpected side- effects of your boyfriend going vegan, in their “BWVAKTBOOM” campaign. Well, the result is massively off target. To quote Nerve.com writer Virginia Smith, “As it stands, this “boyfriend went vegan” campaign just makes me want to run and hide in the arms of a safe, flaccid carnivore.”

The new ad begins with a voice-over narrating “Jessica’s” current circumstance:

“This is Jessica. She suffers from BWVAKTBOOM. Boyfriend Went Vegan, And Knocked The Bottom Out Of Me. A painful condition that occurs when boyfriends go vegan and can suddenly bring it like a tantric porn star.”

Unfortunately, PETA tried to placate to a Maxim, FHM crowd, but instead alienated and offended millions of viewers, as proven by their almost 100% dislike rate on YouTube. Showing a woman that resembles a sexual assault victim trudging upstairs in so much pain she can barely walk — her girly parts obviously sore — and donning a neck brace, no doubt, then smirking at her boyfriend as if this was somehow enjoyable is beyond poor taste. It’s pathetic.

Supposedly, a newfound vegan diet provides a sense of clarity and sensitivity to those around you. I think it’s time PETA walked their talk.

This Sunday (Feb 19) we’re having a women’s writers’ retreat in the SG Radio Studio with a love junkie and a woman trapped. Hosts Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Editor) and Darrah de jour (SG’s resident post-feminist sex and sensuality expert) will be joined in studio by Love Junkie author and Writers on Fire coach Rachel Resnick and her frenemy, actress, comedian, playwright and author Lauren Weedman, a.k.a. Horny Patty (we’re told by Rachel that she had that nickname prior to her “cameo” in HBO’s Hung!). The two met online on a UCLA Book Proposal Writing course, and have been unhealthily competitive ever since. We therefore expect the claws to be out and the sparks to fly, so it should be a fun show.

When Darrah’s not steering the conversation towards the topic of porn or polyamory, and Nicole’s not banging on about Occupy, ACTA or the freakin’ NDAA, we’ll be more or less on topic, yakking about writing. That’s right. Writing. Like, books ‘n’ shit. Stories. Sketches. Plays. Real writing. Surreal writing. Automatic writing. Manual writing. And ghost writing. Since doing this shit is hard. Very hard. Like if you’re JK Rowling rich, fuck it, you should just pay someone else to do it and go get your nails done. Really. But if you’re not, and you’re embarrassed to let people even read your diary – not because it’s too juicy or cringe-worthy, but because it’s too dull – tune in to find out how to make boring shit sound fun, shameless stuff shameful (in a good way), and how to plain just make cool, uncool, and awesomely wrong stuff up.

Tune in to the world’s leading naked radio show for two hours of totally awesome tunes and extreme conversation – and don’t let yo momma listen in!

Listen to SG Radio live Sunday night from 10 PM til Midnight on suicidegirlsradio.indie1031.com

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xoxo

I want to offer mass gratitude to bon vivant blogger, Maliya Bergman of Press For Champagne, for adding me to her blogroll this week!

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Darrah & the SR gang

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“I like the morality thing. People talk about it all the time. Some say you can’t legislate morality. Well, maybe not. But morality has gotten kind of a bad rap. In Roman thought, morality is broken down into basically four things: wisdom, justice, moderation and courage. All of these are the elements that would make up the depth of a person’s morality. And then that would dictate the types of behavior patterns you’d use to respond in any given situation.”

Bob Dylan