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Published on: 6/3/2004
Last Visited: 2/13/2005
Pornographic Performance: an 8-week course in erotic writing and live performance techniques for reading, taught by award-winning erotic author and former Laney College Theatre Professor Blake C. Aarens
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Blake C. Aarens has been published in the journals Ache: a Journal for Lesbians of African Descent, Open Wide, and Good News, and in Penthouse Magazine.Her essays and fiction have been anthologized in Virgin Territory, the Herotica series, and Tasting Life Twice: New Lesbian Fiction by Emerging American Writers, to name a few.Her play Heart Failure won honorable mentions at both the 1999 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 2000 Competition.Her play The Prince of Whiteness was named the invited play to the 53rd Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, Colorado.
Blake holds a B.A. in Rhetoric (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Playwriting) from Saint Mary's College of California.She served as the Acting Professor in the Theatre Arts Department at Laney College in Oakland, CA from Fall 2000 through Spring 2004.