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Poppers the Pony Art, Plus Coloring Book Party! San Francisco, March 30

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Debbie says:

Laurie and I are both fans (and friends) of Dorian Katz, aka Poppers the Pony. Poppers’ art is usually erotic, frequently whimsical, sometimes extremely pointed, and always worth seeing. Her work has been on display at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco since January 15 (and will be there through April 30). On Saturday, March 30, from 6-8 pm, Stacked Deck Press, which has featured Poppers’ work in several publications, will host a reception and coloring book party at Wicked Grounds for their Butch Lesbians of the 50s, 60s, and 70s Coloring Book. We imagine Poppers pawing the ground in pleasure and anticipation.

Cover of Butch Lesbians coloring book

Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa wrote about Poppers/Dorian in 2018, The Performative Drawings of Dorian Katz, aka Poppers the Pony. Otálvaro-Hormillosa writes:

Dorian Katz’s drawings make me feel good. They make me laugh, put me at ease, titillate, inspire, seduce, and provoke me. Her spectacular species function like comfort animals who take me away to colorful fantasy worlds where tantric Olympics are possible, providing much needed respite from the traumas that perpetually unfold in ordinary reality.

The article goes into the ways that Katz pairs art and science, serious thought with delightful images:

Let there be smut!

In yet another playful art-meets-science experiment, Katz created A Field Guide to Horses by Poppers the Pony (2016), a zine that combines the facts of certain species, such as seahorses (unique because the male seahorse can get pregnant), Bretons, and Fabellas,5 with fictions concerning their adventurous sex lives. Katz’s humor is complemented by her interactive approach, which lends an embodied and psychic force to this extraordinary, animalistic, and ecstatic body of work: she’s provided audiences with opportunities to participate in her work by inviting them to color her images…

Read the whole article, which also has more images than I could fit here, including some in color.

If you live in or near San Francisco, come to Poppers’ reception on March 30, and if you can’t make the reception, be sure to check out the show before it closes on April 30. I can promise you that Poppers’ work will make you smile … even while it’s making you think. And you never know … it might also make you whinny.

Deus Vult: “God Wills It”

Laurie and Debbie say:

Believers in a Judeo-Christian god must, by definition, believe that the world was designed by that god as (s)he wished it to be. The Latin phrase is “Deus Vult,” translated literally as “God wills it.” In this context, let’s
contrast a popular (although far from universal) Christian view of sexuality with what’s known about the animal kingdom:

Lehman Strauss at bible.org talks about homosexuality:

Any evil condemned in Scripture cannot be honoring to God. Homosexual religious leaders attempt to smooth over the breaks and rough places with Christian terminology so that a euphoria predominates, but God is not in it. A truly born again person, who loves and understands the Bible as God’s revelation to him, will not condone an evil that God condemns. “If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him” (I John 2:29). “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity” (II Timothy 2:19). Practicing homosexuals are engaged in a divinely forbidden evil.

Cartoonist Roxy Drew, on the other hand, contributes this from her “(Human) Sex is Boring” series:

cartoon describing giraffe sex practices, including male homosexuality when females are not ovulating

So did God forget giraffes? Or decide it’s okay if your neck is ten feet long? (Hmm, is there a phallus joke there?) Or is the problem with Lehman Strauss?

And then there’s adultery, a Judeo-Christian sin so basic that it’s singled out in the Ten Commandments:

At Christians.org, we find:

Why should people refrain from adultery? Because God said so! And he said so for several obvious reasons. First of all, adultery adulterates. Sex is essentially pure. It is part of the creation that God pronounced good. But precisely because it is pure, it must be protected from adulteration. We need God’s pure sex law for the same reason we need pure food and drug laws. The laws protect us from contaminants that would destroy our health and happiness. The Bible is not against sex. To the contrary, it values sex enough to rescue it from adulteration.

And here’s Roxy Drew again:

Two-panel cartoon of two men simulating daisy sex:

Roxy Drew has a point: human sex is boring compared to so much of the wild and crazy sex of the animal and plant kingdoms. Who knows? Maybe some of our wilder efforts are an attempt to catch up to the “lesser beings.” And maybe Deus Vult.

Thanks to Annalee Newitz at io9 for the pointer to the delightful Roxy Drew.