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	Patrick Califia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patrick Califia (formerly known as Pat Califia; born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas) is a writer about women's sexuality and of erotic fiction.
		Califia was born female, into a Mormon family.
		It was at this time that Califia made the decision to transition to a male gender role.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pat_Califia (477 words)

	Gender-bending - Salon
		See, Califia has a son, Blake, of whom he shares custody with his ex-girlfriend, Matt, who also used to be a woman, but is now a man. He stopped taking male hormones so he could give birth.
		Unfortunately, Califia has a way of tossing out verbal bombs that diminish his credibility, and credibility is something he needs desperately if his more cogent observations of gender identity are to gain credence.
		Califia writes, "Like camp, promiscuity is the pink badge of queer courage, our defiant way of whistling past all the graveyards that, for us, dot the heterosexual landscape." Oh, please.
	www.salon.com /sex/feature/2003/02/19/califia/index.html (1086 words)

	Patrick Califia-Rice / Pat Califia
		Pat Califia ponders the question, "What would prostitution be like in a more egalitarian, sex-positive society?" in her essay "Whoring in Utopia".
		Pat Califia looks back over the AIDS epidemic and suggests new ways of thinking about safe sex, not as a temporary, regrettable response to crisis but as an ongoing, "inescapable part of good-hearted sex" which celebrates both responsibility and hedonism.
		Pat Califia explores a rarely discussed fetish and its different meanings to men and women in "Blood Mysteries: Are Cutting and Bloodsportts a Women's Thing?" (excerpted from a longer essay, "Shiny Sharp Things").
	www.dazereader.com /patcalifia.htm (809 words)

	Hares & Hyenas queer bookshop and Screaming Hyena online literary book review
		Pat, incidentally, uses the self-professed gender of zer subjects, correcting (except in direct quotes) inappropriate gender references made by people with no observable respect for the rights of people to determine their own identity.
		Pat is critical of the pre-Feminist views that shaped the doctors' (and patients') assessments, but credits the humanitarianism of many who supported transsexuals pursuing their own life choices.
		Pat offers no authoritive solutions, but asks questions that should be asked, and gives a comprehensive coverage of the various ways humans have explored their gender and transgender options.
	hares-hyenas.com.au /book.asp?RecID=5886 (911 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mortal Companion- P: Books: Pat Califia,Patrick Califia-Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Patrick Califia has created a world where everything is possible and nothing is taboo.
		Califia has fleshed out and sexed up all the smoldering passion that simmered (and languished at times) in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.
		Califia introduces us to The Elders, vampires who guide and protect the lives of their mortal tribes.
	www.amazon.ca /Mortal-Companion-P-Pat-Califia/dp/0971084696 (843 words)

	Pat Califia
		Pat Califia's Sex Changes is a frank, forthright, and sometimes funny challenge to the traditional ideas about gender and sexuality.
		Califia was a central figure in the lesbian sex wars and her popular manual Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality established her as an authority on lesbian sex and an advocate for the then-emerging lesbian S/M community.
		Pat Califia is a feminist, a pornographer, a sadomasochist, a poet, a storyteller, an omnivore, a pagan, a social critic, a sex educator, a parent and an activist.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/c/califia_pat.htm (1139 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sex Changes: Politics of Transgenderism: Books: Patrick Califia-Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		What Califia does is question the binary categorization of gender, given that humanity is expressed on a spectrum of gender expression, not two distinct categories.
		Califia approaches the history and politics from the viewpoint of what many would call a radical feminist lesbian dyke.
		While Califia spends (understandably) a lot of time on the loudest and most transgressive transsexuals, she gives everyone a fair hearing in a way that most reviews of the subject don't.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sex-Changes-Transgenderism-Patrick-Califia-Rice/dp/1573440728 (697 words)

	Pat Califia - Wipipedia
		Patrick Califia (born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas) is a writer about women's sexuality and of erotic fiction.
		During this period Califia was also writing on queer theory and gender identity, coming to terms with personal issues.
		Califia undertook testosterone hormone therapy and changed his name to Patrick, and he and his partner at the time both hypenated their names to Califia-Rice and Rice-Califia respectively.
	www.londonfetishscene.com /wipi/index.php/Patrick_Califia (383 words)

	Amazon.com: Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism: Books: Pat Califia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In no way does Califia endorse their views, in fact she points out that many of them are hardly gender radicals because they embrace very traditional views of gender roles.
		Written when Patrick Califia was still Pat Califia, this book is a good overview of both what it means to live in the gender binary and a discussion of transgender politics of the last 50 or so years.
		Pat Califia's "Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism" is a bold step forward towards the right to self-indentify, of not just trans folks, but af all persons.
	www.amazon.com /Sex-Changes-Transgenderism-Pat-Califia/dp/1573440728 (1679 words)

	Pat Califia's Book Sex Changes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pat Califia is well-known as a long-time activist for gay rights and the right to free sexual expression, and a sharp critic of repressive American attitudes toward sexuality and pornography.
		Pat Califia was born in 1954 in Corpus Christi, Texas.
		Perhaps this is why Pat has been so dogged in her insistence on sexual freedom for everyone, and so relentless in her criticism of sexual censorship, both from the feminist movement and from the Right.
	www.sexuality.org /l/transgen/scpc.html (5180 words)

	Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex, Second Edition by Pat Califia \| PopMatters Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Reading Pat Califia's recent book, the second edition of Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex, readers might be surprised at how one person's highly intelligent, honest, and even funny approach can open their eyes to issues rarely addressed in popular culture in a non-judgemental or positive way.
		It is because, Califia believes, "the illusion of heterosexuality as the majority sexual orientation is maintained by forcing homosexual activity to be furtive, as invisible as possible.
		Califia says, "You can still be a sex radical even if you prefer to 'get off' in the missionary position and still believe there are only two genders." The purpose is to feel good.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/p/public-sex.shtml (1259 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Califia, Patrick
		Prior to gender reassignment Califia had been anxious about its effect on her career since she had built her reputation as a lesbian writer and activist.
		Califia has always been candid in his views and also forthright in acknowledging past stances that he now believes to be in error.
		Califia's continuing sexual journey has been an extraordinary one, and her, now his, views have often been outside the mainstream.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/califia_p,3.html (825 words)

	News
		Writer and gay-rights activist Pat Califia spoke to an overflowing lecture hall Saturday with her sarcastic humor and radical view of sexuality in society.
		Califia was introduced by senior David Berman, member of ACT-UP, as "the unofficial post-dyke for SM." She is the author of both essays and commentary on sexual politics and radical sex in America, as well as a large body of sexually explicit fiction.
		Califia was also retrospective, discussing how she came to see the beauty and importance in other sexualities.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1997.02.21/news/califia.html (915 words)

	Amazon.com: Diesel Fuel: Passionate Poetry: Books: Pat Califia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pat Califia is well known as a sexual pioneer whose essays and fictions have encouraged lesbians to explore and discuss a wider range of erotic experience.
		In this book, her first volume of poetry, Califia gives voice--in the form of brief lyrics and more developed dramatic monologues--to the rebels and outlaws she has written about as a theorist.
		Pat states in "Diesel Fuel," "If I have a vocation, it is to combat sexual shame by speaking as much truth as I know about what really happens in the realm of Eros, and Diesel Fuel is one more record of that calling."
	www.amazon.com /Diesel-Fuel-Passionate-Pat-Califia/dp/1563335352 (741 words)

	TechnoDyke.Com - an all-inclusive online community and publication for lesbian, bisexual and trans dykes!
		Pat Califia is arguably the most influential S/M commentator and pornographer working today.
		In this broad-sweeping interview Califia speaks with absolute candor and eloquence about his life in its newest incarnation; going through hormone changes, having a child, publishing yet another edgy and playful book of erotic fiction entitled No Mercy.
		Califia talks about his involvement in the Little Sisters pornography case and the online leather community.
	www.technodyke.com /features/patcalifa1.asp (471 words)

	Amazon.de: Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction: English Books: Pat Califia,Patrick Califia-Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pat Califia's intense collection of lesbian erotica starts with a bang and does not slow down until the end of the final story.
		"Pat Califia's writing is unbelievably erotic, even when she simply describes someone walking across a room.
		The great virtue of Macho Sluts is that Pat Califia is, apart from anything else, a damn good writer who doesn't smear Vaseline on the lens, as it were.
	www.amazon.de /Macho-Sluts-Fiction-Pat-Califia/dp/155583115X (722 words)

	Gender identity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is also a possibility of reporting bias, since transsexuals may feel that must give the "correct" answers to such questions in order to increase the chances of obtaining hormones.
		Patrick Califia, author of Sex Changes and Public Sex, has indicated that this group has a clear awareness of what answers to give to survey questions in order to be considered eligible for hormone replacement therapy and/or sexual reassignment surgery:
		During the 1950s and '60s, psychologists began studying gender development in young children, partially in an effort to understand the origins of homosexuality (which was still viewed as a mental disorder at the time).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender_identity (1535 words)

	Patrick Califia, San Francisco, community, kink, Susie Bright, Carol Queen, Cleis Press
		Califia's work has revolutionized the way we talk about sex, the way we enjoy sex, and our political awareness of how sex touches us in a million intimate ways.
		Pat then (and Patrick now) so incisively and fearlessly explores sexual possibilities that new doors open for anyone who reads white-hot Califia porn or knife-edge Califia theory.
		More than anyone else, Califia helped me understand that queer politics and radical sex are for everyone, and that using your own experience as a basis for your work is not only acceptable, it's the very best way to make your work authentic, deep, and a resource for others.
	www.eros-zine.com /articles/2003-03-25/califia (1297 words)

	Performative Violence as Catharsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Califia acknowledges this reality, going on to say that “In feminist fiction it has become acceptable for women to write about violence, but only in a rather narrow and restricted way.
		[25] Abuse, rape, incest and misogynistic violence are horrors women live with constantly, and Califia illustrates in her dystopia that one of the sure ways to end such horrific violence is to turn the tables on the male perpetrator and react with equal violence.
		I refer to “Pat” Califia throughout this essay and use female pronouns, for the publication(s) of Doc and Fluff preceded Califia’s transition to “Patrick,” identification as trans, and living in the “male” gender.
	www.albany.edu /ws/journal/vandebogart.html (4660 words)

	Biographies - Pat Califia-Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Patrick Califia is a long-time leather community activist, a widely-publisihed author, and a parent.
		Pat Califia, our presenter and well- known therapist, who specializes in relationship counseling for kinky people, explains why we sometimes have trouble getting back into our fetishwear once we've seen each other in pajamas, and he gives you some tips for rekindling the cruel flame of perverse passion.
		This is a problem that all of us in the leather community face at one time or another, and Pat provides some of the best answers and suggestions available.
	www.thunderinthemountains.com /bios/Patcalifia.htm (331 words)

	Lust Magazine - What's tucked away in "The Locked Drawer"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Far from attempting to shock or lecture like some other authors out there, Califia non-judgmentally writes about various forms of 'alternative' sexuality, providing the reader with options and opportunities to explore themselves and their partners, not forgetting to stress safety and communication.
		The chapter starts off with safe sex precautions of course, and goes on to talk about vaginal penetration, while oral sex and anal play tips are given and even handballing (fisting) and female ejaculation are discussed.
		Pat Califia intended to write a basic introduction to s/m for novices, and those who have become interested by some or all aspects of it are likely to want to read more on those aspects.
	www.sataniclust.com /tld_book_califia_sensuousmagic.htm (818 words)

	Why is this page black? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pat got his start from a set of stories (which are not online) and as such, is immortal, quite versed in the mysteries of nanotechnology, and can speak many languages.
		His name has no relation to Pat Califia, Pat Buchanan, Pat from the "It's Pat" sketches on Saturday Night Live, or Pat The Fuzzy Bunny.
		You might see him on the few MUCKs he frequents, such as Tapestries and Realms, especially the former.
	www.fur.com /~pat/pat.html (201 words)

	Gayle Rubin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1978 Rubin moved to San Francisco to begin studies of the gay male leather culture.
		On June 13 of that year, Rubin, together with Pat Califia and 16 others founded the first known lesbian SM group, Samois.
		The group disbanded in May 1983, and Rubin was involved in founding a new organisation, "the Outcasts", the following year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gayle_Rubin (757 words)

	Patrick Califia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Since the 1970s, Patrick Califia has been educating outsiders about the issues of sexual minorities, including gay and lesbian, bisexual people, transgendered people, the BDSM community, and sex workers.
		Patrick Califia (PC): One of the differences between modern erotica in industrialized Western nations and Victorian sexually-explicit literature is the degree of specialization we enjoy today.
		In Victorian pornographic novels and short stories, the male protagonist is usually "a rake," which is to say, a man who has succumbed to bestial impulses.
	www.erotica-readers.com /ERA/SL/PatCalifia.htm (2913 words)

	Book: Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
		Based on in-depth interviews with gender transgressors who "opened their lives, minds, hearts, and bedroom to the gaze of strangers", this book combines a well-thought-out chronology with Pat Califia's hallmark candor and insight.
		Califia scrutinizes feminist resistance to transsexuals occupying women's space and the Christian Right's backlash against transsexuals.
		Califia's first book oforiginal material in four years, Sex Changes includes an extensive bibliography and resource list.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/OSL/LGBT/library/details/1611.html (282 words)

	No Mercy, By Pat Califia : The buzz
		“Califia writes from the place where Doors frontman Jim Morrison wrote from—a strange, erotic new Wild Wild West.
		And like Morrison, Califia builds her prose on contradiction—light and dark, love and hate, feminism and misogyny, butch and femme, S/M play and tearful touches.… Each story is transgressive, challenging, intellectual and perplexing.
		Califia, it seems, exists to defy convention and categorization.
	www.alyson.com /html/00_files/00_reviews/0400/0400nomercy_buzz.html (68 words)

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