Part two of INIQUITY NEWS #6       Sat, 20 Sept 1998
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Kick Up Your Shoes, England:
The Amazing 1998 Rubber Ball Program of Events!

(Ed. -- If there are any wealthy philanthropist Pervs out there who feel the need to assist a long haired male Dom and his petite Asian slave to attend this seriously amazing lists of events, I can recommend someone.) ;-)

Thursday 29 October 1998

-- The World Premiere of 'Razor Blade Smile' at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Place, off Leicester Square, London W1. Nearest tube: Leicester Square.
      Jake West's homage to fetish vampires is the perfect antidote to all those period dramas the British film industry is so proud of. Slick, sexy and blackly comic, this film will make everyone wish they had a rubber-clad vampire goddess of their very own! Eileen Daly, and other cast members will be attending this unique event. Tickets cost £5 in advance. Seating capacity: 488

Friday 30 October 1998

- Bound 'n' Gagged 10pm - 7am at The Slimelight, Torrens Street, London N1. Nearest tube: Angel.
      The SKIN TWO Rubber Ball Weekend party programme kicks off with a collaborative event alongside one of the hottest new fetish clubs in town. After only a year in existence, Bound 'n' Gagged is already notorious for its wild cabaret offerings and friendly party atmosphere.
Tickets cost £15 in advance.
Strict fetish dress code.

Saturday 31 October 1998

Midday to 5pm:
-- 'Aural Sex' at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London Nearest tube: Holborn.
      Everything you ever wanted to know about kinky sex, but were afraid to ask! We have secured some of the biggest international names on the SM scene to come and discuss everything from sexual politics to the best way to tie up your lover. Topping the bill is legendary SM author and sex-positive feminist, Pat Califia. Other invited speakers include Jim Stewart, author and founder of Fetters; original Modern Primitives, Fakir Musafar and Cleo Dubois; and Anita Phillips, author of 'A Defense of Masochism'.
Ticket prices/full programme tba.

Midday to 6pm:
-- 'Celluloid Perversions'
at the Lux Cinema, 2-4 Hoxton Square, London N1. Nearest tube: Old Street.
A chance to see a collection of rare and never-before-seen films.
Programme as follows:
     12 Midday Selection of short films by underground film maker and professional submissive, Maria Beatty.
     2pm Fetishes, Nick Broomfield's documentary about the Mistresses and client's of NY's most famous dungeon, Pandora's Box.
     4pm Tokyo Decadence, Ryu Muramaki's shocking 1992 film charting the fall of an SM prostitute into a world of drugs and violence. (Japanese with English subtitles).
Tickets cost £5 per film in advance. Seating capacity: 120

10pm - 6am:
-- The Alternative Rubber Ball at New Imperial Gardens, 299 Camberwell New Road, Camberwell, London SE5. Nearest tube: Oval.
      A unique collaboration, capturing the flavours of a multitude of UK and European fetish clubs, and featuring the world famous DeMask fashion show. Clubs confirmed are: Torture Garden, Mostly Harmless (Leeds), Religion (Bristol), Hellfire (Edinburgh), Adventures of Gwendoline (London), Fetichic (Paris), House of the Switchblade Sisters (London), Endorphine Visions (Brighton), Extravaganza (Hamburg) and Severin's Kiss (London). Each club will be contributing DJs and performers, as well as importing their own dŽcor and their regular clubbers. And all for an unbelievably low admission price!
Tickets cost £12 in advance. Strict fetish dress code.

Sunday 1 November 1998

11am - 5pm:
-- The London Fetish Fair
venue TBA
      To find that last minute outfit or accessory at an affordable price, or just to hang out with friends in a sociable atmosphere, you can't beat the London Fetish Fair.
Tickets cost: £2 on the door only.

8pm - Midnight:
-- The SKIN TWO Rubber Ball Gala Dinner
at Little Havana, Leicester Place, off Leicester Square, London W1. Nearest tube: Leicester Square.
      A kinky banquet in the heart of the West End. Suitably dressed diners will receive an excellent meal and cabaret-style entertainment, all in a perve-friendly atmosphere. This promises to be one of the hottest tickets of the weekend, and a perfect opportunity to recharge batteries and relax prior to the big event itself. Tickets cost £25 in advance ONLY. Ticket availability strictly limited. (Fetish and eveningwear dress code) The dinner will finish just in time to walk over the road to...

8pm - Midnight:
-- The SKIN TWO Rubber Ball Gala Dinner
at Little Havana, Leicester Place, off Leicester Square, London W1. Nearest tube: Leicester Square.
      A kinky banquet in the heart of the West End. Suitably dressed diners will receive an excellent meal and cabaret-style entertainment, all in a perve-friendly atmosphere. This promises to be one of the hottest tickets of the weekend, and a perfect opportunity to recharge batteries and relax prior to the big event itself.
Tickets cost £25 in advance ONLY. Ticket availability strictly limited. (Fetish and eveningwear dress code)
The dinner will finish just in time to walk over the road to...

Midnight:
-- Special Midnight Screening of Preaching to the Perverted
Prince Charles Cinema, off Leicester Square, London WC2. Nearest tube: Leicester Square.
      The UK's first and only mainstream fetish film caused a stir amongst the critics, while for many London scene-goers it was a chance to see themselves and their friends on the big screen! Starring the gorgeous Guinevere Turner and Christian Anholt, the film takes a wry look at the double standards of morality rife within the British Establishment. And the outfits are fabulous!
Tickets cost £5 in advance.

Monday 2 November 1998

9pm - 4am+:
-- The 1998 SKIN TWO Rubber Ball
at Bagley's Film Studios, off York Way, London N1.
Nearest tube: Kings Cross.
      The main event, which is expected to attract up to 3,000 of the world's wildest perverati, with costumes to match, has found a new home. This year's theme, the world of kinky comic book art, will be brought to life before your eyes with shows, performances and decor. Top international fetish designers, including So Hip It Hurts, Daxine, Inner Sanctum, Regulation, Dark Garden and of course SKIN TWO, will feature in a dazzling new Latexicon fashion show. The five rooms of Bagley's will feature a number of different areas, including a 1950's Fetish Cafe and Heel Bar to rest those weary stilettos! The new venue features secure parking, excellent cloakroom facilities and reasonable drink prices, to ensure everyone has the best night ever. Strict fetish dress code. (No evening/formal wear)
      Tickets cost £30 until 12 October, then £35 in advance and £40 on the door. VIP tickets cost £100 each until 12 October, then £120. Numbers strictly limited. VIP tickets include car service (both ways between Ball and Central London location), VIP entrance and cloakroom, VIP Bar, Champagne reception and buffet and unlimited access to public areas.

Tickets for ALL these events are available from SKIN TWO in London on 0171 627 3332.

Tickets for the three major events (SKIN TWO Rubber Ball, Alternative Rubber Ball, Bound 'n' Gagged) are also available from SKIN TWO in the USA on 707 578 0144 (PST). On tickets for all events apart from the Skin Two Rubber Ball there is a booking fee of 50 pence per ticket.

Important - This information will be constantly updated until the event. For further, up-to-the-minute, information call 0171 371 3889 (From overseas, +44 171 371 3889. From the USA, 011 44 171 371 3889)

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Out-Of-Town Events Coming Up......

...in Los Angeles

Thursday 29 October 1998
-- "O" Magazine and Vampire Technology Present: Bacchanalia '98
For most details, check out http://www.o-magazine.com/bach/
      For those of you who don't know, "O" Magazine has always been one of the more respected Fetish magazines in the world. That they will be gracing the U.S. with a party open to the public is quite a special event. The venue promises to be quite large, with a Strict Fetish Dress Code, DJ's, Bands, Art Exhibits, and a Fashion Show. There may be some minor S&M furniture, but no real dungeon-space has been confirmed at this time.
      Tickets are available Online ONLY. Amongst other things, this will allow the proprietors to classify the event as a "private party," and thus many restrictions will be circumnavigated -- in other words, this might be one hell of a wild party!!! ;-)

Ongoing, Every Tuesday
-- The Rack
Doors open at 10:30 pm, $5. Industrial / Darkwave / Alternative music.
at The Martini Lounge, 5657 Melrose Ave in Hollywood
Strict Dress Code: Goth-Vampyre-Fetish-Formal ONLY! All slaves on a leash get in free!
      More and more we are seeing our Gothic brothers and sisters come away from their definition of S&M as "Stand & Model" and begin to truly taste the nectar of our beautiful Fetish world. Fetish elements increase in number daily amongst Gothic accouterment. Slowly but surely the Fetishists amongst the Goths are coming out of their coffins (at least when it's dark) to embrace the sweet alternative sexuality of S&M, perhaps even incubating a whole new sub-culture in itself.....
      The Rack promises to be a club where the two worlds, Gothic and BDSM, can meet seamlessly. Goths can feel comfortable amongst their peers as they explore the bounds of deliciously applied or received pain, and Fetishists can enjoy the velvet elegance of the Goth universe at this middle-ground club run by Jack of the notoriously wonderful Fang Club.
      For More Info: http://www.fangclub.com

...in New Orleans

Friday, October 30th:
-- Requiem of The Fallen Angels, a Devil's Night Celebration.
Fetish / Gothic / Vampire Decadence presented by The Convent and La Petite Chateau Dungeon.
Tickets are $13 for this 18 and over event which starts at Midnight and goes until 8 a.m!
      The presence of La Petite Chateau promises a very genuine S&M aspect, and The Convent is a well-known Goth / Fetish Club by night and pro-domme dungeon by day. Nice combo, aye? DJ's will be spinning Goth-Industrial.
      For more info, visit: http://www.ledungeon.com/theatre.htm

...in Scotland and misc. Britain

(Thanks to JV for this info)

October 11th - Sunday:
-- Permission - Fetish
Edinburgh
Goth DJ's
      For more info, visit: http://www.hedonism.demon.co.uk/permission/permhome.html

October 26th - Monday:
-- CARNIVAL OF SOULS 98 - Fetish and Gothic
At the Pink Coconut - Colyear Street, Derby - Strict Dress Code - £8.00 advance £10.00 Door-
      An evening of entertainment for the Gothic and Fetish Nation - House of Usher (Germany)* Midnight Configuration * Inertia * Star Industry (Belgium) * Squid - Sp Guest Appearance 'Storm Constantine' (fantasy authoress) - 15+ Stalls include Underground Nation and Desyre Foundation + tons of clothes/jewelry/accessories.
      Tickets/info mail to: carnival@nightbrd.demon.co.uk or wayahead@live-music.com

(Ed. - For more info on all manner of things Fetish, Gothic and Alternative happening in the North of Britain, drop me a line if you'd like to be on the list for JV's extensive newsletter. It's quite a read! I would then forward your e-mail address to JV.)

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Genderfuck: A Post-Modern Contemplation

(Ed. -- when I first read this modern Bohemian Fetish Treatise, I noticed not so much an academic discussion on those amongst the Fetish community who blend the elements of both genders -- herein referred to as Genderfuck -- but rather the hypnotic rhythm to Kalib's words as he subverts your conscious mind and draws you into this all-but-tactile acid dream. Bordering on an essay, his words don't quite register into the logic centers even though you feel as if they should. Instead you come away from this feeling as though you've tasted some kind of hallucinogenic papaya, and although you have a flavour, that too is hard to classify and categorize. I have read this several times, and thought to share it with you -- it is of course Fetish in nature -- for the sake of the pure enjoyment of the reading.)

"Postmodernism and the Sacred Genderfuck
by Kalib
(presented here unedited)

      Where as the sacred androg forms the union of masculine and feminine form and expression, the genderfuck serves to explode it - to tear it apart. The disruption of form. The dissonance of two very common forms of expression and thought like a minor second interval in western music beating in the wind. The tension produced has energy and vigor that proclaims itself as never resolved, only transformed.
      Like the minor second chord (press any black and white keys next to each other on a piano) the freakish clash is easy to detect. It is also understandable that many recoil from it's nature leaving just a few odd fish to enjoy it's beauty. It is beautiful, joyous and liberating. It is also ugly, fearful and a trap at the same time with a balance that screams for resolution that never comes. If it does, it ceases to be genderfuck, it is no longer post modern, it becomes "Drag". The androg is not Drag. The androg is balance via melding or merging seamlessly. Genderfuck is Drag, the meeting of societal opposite symbols, with the sacred expression of two pervasive forms of human expression. The androg hides the lie while Genderfuck shows the false deities for the toys they are and are not.
      There is balance in Genderfuck. That is to say the form can be refined and developed, perfected. Here one can find process-an evolution. Genderfuck again like a dissonant interval or chord can lead somewhere. It can create a journey where none appeared to be. It can bring light to the shadow and vice versa. Learning lead by questions as subtle as will. Have no doubt that it is sacred and profane. It manifests divinity and dances in silence. It is as sacred of an art as any that has come before and has been with us, staring at us all along. It is nothing new. Our sights had yet to be calibrated or perhaps we forgot, or perhaps some never forgot. It appears to not be for the masses at all times. The football team wearing dresses only happens on a Holy day such as Halloween. Never the less it is there in the bedrooms, in the porn shops, in the clubs every week. Sometimes it is subtle and amongst friends one moment and enemies the other but usually both at the same time.
      The human quality is at it's core which lies beyond Genderfuck itself. Genderfuck presents the forms as beats clashing against each other but the human expression is revealed beneath the cracks that form in the surface lifting the mask from female, male and all between those poles of biology. Woman and Man cease to be accepted as nature when presented as obvious theatre of false duality. Feminism as a discussion of Man and Woman is not postmodern, it is archaic. An old clock clicking to the same old beat that it opposes. Many Feminists appear to not notice that it is not Womanism and assume that it is Femin-I-nine-ism and have still yet to understand that it must be, for lack of more common term, Female-ism. Or Male-ism for that matter that is a far more rich territory. If you want a movement to discuss only constructs and not biology, Feminism remains an academic discourse that need not leave the class room. If it is an evolution of humanity, moving forward, genderfuck can be it's jester, it's painted gigolo, its trousered whore dancing in the flames of creation.
      Genderfuck is now recognized because of third-wave Feminism, a Feminism that has deconstructed and reconstructed Freud via Lacan, S&M, fetish, etcÉand found in them the path of liberation. By redefining the cultural constructs via analysis, S&M ceases to be about mastery and resulting other, the slave. It becomes a tool for breaking down and reassigning cultural forms of expression and I-dentity. Feminism now understands the nature of the Master and how to slide sideways out of the non-productive and repetitive nature of revolution-mastery over mastery. The dominatrix has, for the past 8 years, become the model of feminism. The medusa with a head full of vipers (phallus?) tattooed on the arms of bull-dykes that like to fuck men. It has taken on so many new forms. The dominatrix tho' has to be given her credit above all the others. She is the mother who gave birth to genderfuck. Genderfuck is a thread in her, the phallus becomes real and therefore unnatural with her. The whip, the dildo, the sharp tone in her voice wields the power of the premodern ruler with his staff of office. By seeing these things in the dominatrix, and in S&M/Fetish, feminism provided fertile ground for the newly born genderfuck, as well as the classic forms of genderfuck, to grow-in.
      S/He now roams the clubs, conventions, religions, and streets of the world. S/He's a comical farce that is very real and serious. This genderfuck smiles with a peace inside, a balance. The gender masks cease to be tools of defense and definition. These faces have become the playground of the fool, the jester, that reflects back to the culture reminding it that biology and psychology are not fixed, and that by its very nature is transcending and transformitive."

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Liquid Latex Sale!

     Everyone's favorite Liquid Latex dealer, DEVIANT, is having a sale, now through October 31st with some prices as much as 40% off!!!! For more info, visit their website at: http://www.corp1.com/deviant Be sure to mention that you were sent by INIQUITY. ;-)

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INIQUITY's Newest 10% Discounts

     Add 'em up folks! The "INIQUITY 10% Discount Club" just keeps growing! The latest additions to the INIQUITY 10% discount club are listed here (soon to be linked from the INIQUITY Website with more exact details about what they sell; this is just a brief notice with their URL for a little fun surfing):

In ALL cases above you MUST mention INIQUITY's Password somewhere in your order (i.e. a comments box, over the phone to the sales rep, etc.) to receive your discount. If you don't know the password by now, read this issue -- it's clearly mentioned in here somewhere. ;-)

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Wrappin' it up......

      Would you believe I actually have MORE stuff I thought I was going to put in this issue? Oh well, it'll still be relevant next issue. :-)
     Tons of parties as you've read by now; events happening all over the world. Remember, no matter where you live, INIQUITY would love to hear about anything of a Fetish nature from your part of the world. To send all correspondence, articles, stories, poems and anything else, use the Contact Form
      It seems like this issue has mentioned Evolution several times. Hopefully we're actually marking a genuine change in our global acceptance of Fetish, and of an appreciation of a higher Fetish aesthetic. If you believe in Social Darwinism, then it would seem our pure bull-headed demand for a higher acceptance is at last being met -- we are out-surviving those who would stop us with mediocrity and fundamentalist dogma. On the flip side, if you are a fan of the newer "Spontaneous Adaptation" theory of Evolution, well heck, I guess the human race must be spontaneously adapting to the implacable Fetish Current!!! ;-)
      Take your pick.
      Either way, it seems our collective dreams are starting to manifest. ;-)

                    Towards the realization of those collective dreams.....

                         -- Arcane

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