5,000 submissions. 53 finalists. 20 slots. I WANT IT SO GOOD.
Dear Ones,
Barely slept in two days, I’m so excited.
I haven’t won anything in 20 years.
I used to win things all the time. As a kid. As a pre-teen. Even as a teenager. That stopped when I went to college. (NYU was indeed a Very Big Pond.) Eventually, after a few years, I stopped applying.
Two years ago, I realized how small I was playing, and made a deliberate decision to apply to things again. But this! This is the first one I see as a win! Even as a finalist, a win!
About Clubhouse.
I’ve been in love with Clubhouse. For the first few weeks, I actually experienced NRE (New Relationship Energy)! Hardly ate! Rarely slept! Talked about it to anyone! All the signs of a solid infatuation!
It began by ‘raising my hand.’
Then Alec made me a a co-moderator. He’d pass me the mic to offer intimacy advice. I started saying, “Just a s&x ed moment here!”
As I moved from infatuation to bonding, I met other beloved favourites, like De’Andre & Shane & my Clubhouse wife Annie & my Clubhouse mistress Dani & Brittany & Angus & & & … These relationships feel tender and warm and deep, playful and tasty and delightful.
Clubhouse is the perfect app for the zeitgeist. How we crave connection and community! Interfacing globally, live, & solely through voice is truly gorgeous and unprecedented.
I starting co-hosting rooms, like:
Ask Men Anything with Alec.
The Sex-Positive Room with De’Andre.
Then I opened rooms of my own:
Ladies of the Sex House with my former housemates from the Villa
I Just Found My Poetry Stash with Shane
Then I formed my own club:
My second week on the app, I happened upon the last reset of the last 5 minutes of Abraxas’s “Apply to the Creator First Program” room. The application was due the next day. I stayed up until 4am working on it while horizontal, two pillows under my head, knees up, laptop resting on my thighs. At 4am, I fell asleep underneath my computer.
At 7am, I woke up and kept working on the application. I submitted around 2pm.
The next week I heard a (totally unsubstantiated) rumor that they had already chosen 10 people. I thought it was odd, and a bit obtuse, that they didn’t send any kind of acknowledgement, or rejection email, to honor people’s hard work.
I thought lots of things.
I thought they might not choose a s&x-positive creator. I thought they might not choose someone with such a small following (I hadn’t even reached 1k yet).
I’ve never been so overjoyed to be wrong!
This is what the folx on Clubhouse call a “PTR.” It refers to your profile photo, but stands for Pull To Refresh, which means: put your finger on the screen and swipe down. This is how you can see refreshed profile photos, or the re-ordered stage.
Clubhouse gave us 53 finalists each a stipend to produce a single pilot episode of our live audio shows. Pilot Season is from May 10th – 21st. There will be judges in the room. (Eek!) 30% of my score relies on audience participation & retention.
Positively Sex! airs on:
Sunday night, May 16th
8pm EST / 5pm Pacific
The topic is top secret, but I can tell you this: it is very, very relevant to our times.
Will you come?
Will you will you?
When you join, click this link to add the pilot directly to your Google Calendar! WHOO!
I have always been a Creator First,
and now,
again,
finally,
I am being recognized as such.
DAMN it feels good.
