Does the virtual assistant on your smartphone just “get you”? For many smart phone users, interacting with a natural speech-recognizing, intelligent, digital assistant - ever-present on their devices - has become a way of life. It was impossible to imagine…
I’m pretty sure that when Max Weber wrote about the march toward increasing rationalization and disenchantment in modern societies that he didn’t anticipate the kinds of irrational and mysterious situations that advanced bureaucracies would produce. While he certainly understood that…
Three interesting things happened this week. At first they seemed unrelated, but this morning they all bubbled up together and suddenly the fact that they are all happening basically at the same time seemed meaningful. First, my sister got interested…
Yesterday marked one year since the day my mother left this world, and I spent much of the morning with my grief and my memories. In the afternoon, my partner and I headed out to Staten Island for an art…
Last week I proposed to write weekly previews of chapters that will make up this new project, My Mother's Cross. So far, I've shared previews of the introductory chapter called "Maternity Leave," and a chapter called "Hospital Domme". Today I'm…
Last week I introduced a new project I'm working on, and shared a small excerpt. Today I have a question. I've been thinking about this question a lot as I think about my relationship with my mother, and as I…
Today is a monumental day in US history and the history of LGBT rights. But it is not a full victory. We join in the celebration, but we also highlight the challenges that remain for full equality and for full…
On March 24th at 8:40 p.m., John Williamson, one of the leading figures of the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies, passed away from complications due to lung cancer. He was eighty years old. Williamson was best-known for creating…
I just received my copy of "Polyfidelity: Sex in the Kerista Commune and Other Related Theories on How to Solve the World's Problems." It's a book of writings and artwork published by the Kerista Commune. My first skim through the…
Written Testimony in Support for SB-916 “Families First” Bill My name is Ricci Levy and I offer this written testimony on behalf of the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance, a national 501c3 human rights organization. We ask that this committee support…