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Category: Out Loud

A column by Evan Karp, first published in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook section, highlighting upcoming Bay Area literary events.

DECADE OF BAWDY STORYTELLING OPENS GATEWAY TO SEXUAL UNDERGROUND

DECADE OF BAWDY STORYTELLING OPENS GATEWAY TO SEXUAL UNDERGROUND

Posted on February 23, 2017March 11, 2024 by Evan Karp

Shortly after Dixie De La Tour moved to the Bay Area, she received an invitation that would change her life. “I used to have a very boring day job,” she said by phone, “and then my life was made more exciting by the fact that I fell down the rabbit hole and discovered sex parties. Read More

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READING TO FUND GIRLS’ EDUCATION

READING TO FUND GIRLS’ EDUCATION

Posted on February 9, 2017March 11, 2024 by Evan Karp

In 2006, Kim Rosen arrived at the Tasaru Safe House in Narok, Kenya, and stood before a group of Maasai girls who had run away from their homes, and their tribe’s traditions of female genital mutilation and early marriage, seeking education and an alternate way of life. “I went with very personal, in a way, Read More

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