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June virtual nude gathering reminder!
VIRTUAL NUDE GATHERING
This Saturday, June 5th at 1pm eastern
In 2019 I facilitated 3 in-person nude gatherings and knew that I NEEDED to share more of these experiences with others. Then the pandemic happened and in-person events were no longer possible, so I’ve adapted nude gatherings for the virtual realm!!
The first virtual nude gathering went so well that I extended the length of time we’re together!
Several people from the first virtual event mentioned they wished the event would be longer… + I think that’s a wonderful idea!
Instead of 1 hour we gather for 90 minutes!!
This is the 3rd virtual nude gathering, and 3 is my favorite number!
Join us to create this community space together
We gathered from all over the USA + the world!
Past attendees have included people from across the globe including the USA, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Germany, Netherlands + Australia.
Feedback from nude gatherers:
“Nude gatherings have helped me to recontextualize nudity with a happy, healing family. I’d been feeling some trauma around the sexualization of nudity. I felt warm, welcomed, and cared for after this light hearted session. Community, finding like minded people, playing games and getting to know one another are what I enjoyed most about this experience.”
-Jenna C“Before the gathering started I was very nervous about coming off as awkward, and also worried about how I would feel or react to a “room” full of naked bodies.
After it was over I honestly felt lighter, and slightly liberated. I left the room feeling great. It was very inclusive and affirming. I felt heard and connected with the other participants in a safe, non-sexual way… Which was a first for me!
I think everyone, especially those of us who hold marginalized identities, deserves the opportunity to experience nudity in this context. It can be very healing and beautiful.”
-AD“The somatic part was valuable. I appreciated being able to present my whole body on screen. I’m not an exhibitionist, but I do have body insecurity. Being fully seen and being accepted as I physically am and not judged is validating. Your fears and insecurities are probably based on a misconception of what the event will be like. We aren’t there to gawk at you. We aren’t there for sexual stimulation or arousal.”
-RB“Before the gathering I felt anxious, doubtful, scared, overwhelmed. Afterwards I felt grounded, seen, heard, respected, unashamed, hopeful that society is moving in the right direction.”
-MDNude gatherings are for moving past the societal conditioning that our nude bodies are inherently bad, sexual, or to be consumed by others, and reclaiming them as the magical vessels of life, love, and healing that they are.
If you think your friends would enjoy attending a virtual nude gathering, invite them to join!
I’m really looking forward to gathering with you 💗
Exploring nudity + encouraging self love,
Bunny Luna
PS: Members of my website get free tickets to all virtual nude gatherings!
Members: keep an eye out for the blog coming out Saturday morning with the discount code to get in for free! -
Why being naked is good for us <3
Being nude around others can increase life satisfaction, encourage a more positive body image, + uplift our self-esteem.
Being nude can improve our skin, help us sleep better, + enhance our health.
Nudity is natural + beneficial to us when there’s a brave space that allows us to be ourselves.
Resources:
You Should Get Naked More Often. It’s Good for You by Joni Sweet
6 Reasons to Spend More Time Naked by Chaunie Brusie
How Touching Your Partner Can Make Both of You Healthier by Cathy Cassada
Hands On Research: The Science of Touch by Dacher Keltner
Social isolation, loneliness in older people pose health risks from NIH National Institute on Aging
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Your FREE TICKET to the virtual nude gathering
The virtual nude gathering is Saturday June 5th at 1pm eastern!
Let’s hang out naked together in a non sexual context!
You’ve probably already seen my post with more info about the gathering from a couple days ago.
All the info is at the link below!USE CODE ‘BLMBR’ TO GET IN FREE
Image: Bunny Luna August 2019
Models left to right: Leopold, me, anon, Canischromatis, anon
Location: my home in Charlotte NC
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June virtual nude gathering!
VIRTUAL NUDE GATHERING
Saturday, June 5th at 1pm eastern
In 2019 I facilitated 3 in-person nude gatherings and knew that I NEEDED to share more of these experiences with others. Then the pandemic happened and in-person events were no longer possible, so I’ve adapted nude gatherings for the virtual realm!!
The first virtual nude gathering went so well that I extended the length of time we’re together!
Several people from the first virtual event mentioned they wished the event would be longer… + I think that’s a wonderful idea!
Instead of 1 hour we gather for 90 minutes!!
This is the 3rd virtual nude gathering, and 3 is my favorite number!
Join us to create this community space together
We gathered from all over the USA + the world!
Past attendees have included people from across the globe including the USA, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Germany, Netherlands + Australia.
Feedback from nude gatherers:
“Nude gatherings have helped me to recontextualize nudity with a happy, healing family. I’d been feeling some trauma around the sexualization of nudity. I felt warm, welcomed, and cared for after this light hearted session. Community, finding like minded people, playing games and getting to know one another are what I enjoyed most about this experience.”
-Jenna C“Before the gathering started I was very nervous about coming off as awkward, and also worried about how I would feel or react to a “room” full of naked bodies.
After it was over I honestly felt lighter, and slightly liberated. I left the room feeling great. It was very inclusive and affirming. I felt heard and connected with the other participants in a safe, non-sexual way… Which was a first for me!
I think everyone, especially those of us who hold marginalized identities, deserves the opportunity to experience nudity in this context. It can be very healing and beautiful.”
-AD“The somatic part was valuable. I appreciated being able to present my whole body on screen. I’m not an exhibitionist, but I do have body insecurity. Being fully seen and being accepted as I physically am and not judged is validating. Your fears and insecurities are probably based on a misconception of what the event will be like. We aren’t there to gawk at you. We aren’t there for sexual stimulation or arousal.”
-RB“Before the gathering I felt anxious, doubtful, scared, overwhelmed. Afterwards I felt grounded, seen, heard, respected, unashamed, hopeful that society is moving in the right direction.”
-MDNude gatherings are for moving past the societal conditioning that our nude bodies are inherently bad, sexual, or to be consumed by others, and reclaiming them as the magical vessels of life, love, and healing that they are.
If you think your friends would enjoy attending a virtual nude gathering, invite them to join!
I’m really looking forward to gathering with you 💗
Exploring nudity + encouraging self love,
Bunny Luna
PS: Members of my website get free tickets to all virtual nude gatherings!
Members: keep an eye out for the blog coming out Saturday morning with the discount code to get in for free! -
Environmental Personhood
Ever since I discovered the existence of environmental personhood I have been extremely interested in it + a huge advocate of it. The more we can do to grant nature personhood in the eyes of the law, the better. I’ve created this to share some basics about environmental personhood: what it is, examples of it around the world, + resources for further reading + exploration.
What is environmental personhood?
Definition of Environmental personhood:
Environmental personhood is a legal concept which designates certain environmental entities the status of a legal person. This assigns to these entities, the rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities and legal liability of a legal personality.
Example of environmental personhood: Ecuador
Ecuador became the first country to include the rights of nature in its constitution. In 2007 there was a revolution “La Revolucion Ciudadana” + Rafael Correa became president. With the help of National Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador + other Indigenous groups, the country’s new constitution included a section titled “Rights of Nature” recognizing nature as a legal entity with rights.
Example of environmental personhood: Bolivia
Indigenous groups in Bolivia also demanded rights for nature and in 2010 the Bolivian government created the “Law of the Rights of Mother Earth” which included rights related to life, regeneration, biodiversity, water, clean air, balance, + restoration. It recognized Earth as “collective subject of public interest”. A more complete version of the law was created in 2012 called “The Framework Law of Mother Earth + Integral Development for Living Well”.
Example of environmental personhood: New Zealand
In 2014 Te Urewera, the ancestral home of the Tuhoe people (formerly a National Park) became New Zealand’s first environmental legal person. For over 140 years the Maori fought for recognition of the Whanganui river as their ancestor. In 2017 the river received legal status and harming the river would now be considered the same as harming the Maori. In 2018 Mount Taranaki, a volcano sacred to the Maori also became recognized as a legal person.
Example of environmental personhood: Bangladesh
In July 2019 all rivers in Bangladesh were granted the same legal rights as people. The goal is to protect the rivers from pollution, encroachments, + illegal dredging. Bangladesh’s National River Conservation Commission (NRCC) was appointed the legal guardian of rivers. Chairman Muzibur Rahman Howlader says “Protecting the rivers also means protecting the entire ecosystem”
Example of environmental personhood: India
In 2017 India ruled that the two rivers, Gangotri + Yamunotri are “living entities having the status of a legal person with all corresponding rights, duties + liabilities of a living person.” The ecosystem around the rivers was also awarded legal rights. In 2018 the animals in Haryana received the status of “legal person or entity” to promote the welfare of animals in the state. In 2020 Sukhna Lake was also given legal rights.
Example of environmental personhood: Athens, Georgia
There is a white oak in Athens, GA known as “The Tree That Owns Itself”. The deed reads: “For and in consideration of the great love I bear this tree and the great desire I have for its protection for all time, I convey entire possession of itself and all land within eight feet of the tree on all sides—William H. Jackson” Sadly, the tree fell in a windstorm in 1942. A seedling of the original tree was planted in its place and is known as “Son of the Tree That Owns Itself”.
Example of environmental personhood: Eufala, Alabama
There is an oak tree in Eufala, AL known as “The Tree That Owns Itself” aka the “Walker Oak”. A “deed of sentiment” was granted in 1935 stating that the tree was “a creation and gift of the Almighty, standing in our midst—to itself—to have and to hold itself, its branches, limbs, trunks and roots so long as it shall live.” In 1961 the oak fell in a windstorm. 10 days later, a local business planted a new oak in the same spot and ownership rights were transferred to the replacement tree.
RESOURCES:
pg 2: definition via wikipedia
pg 3-7: Jurist.org “Environmental Personhood: Recent Developments + the Road Ahead” by Sanket Khandelwal
pg 5: BBC “The New Zealand river that became a legal person” by Kate Evans
pg 6: NPR “Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? A Growing Number of Voices Say Yes” by Ashley Westerman
pg 8: Atlasobscura “The Tree That Owns Itself”
pg 9: Atlasobscura “The Tree That Owns Itself (Alabama)”
Additional reading: “Should Trees Have Standing? – Toward Legal Rights For Natural Objects” by Christopher D Stone
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25 Ways to Connect With Yourself! <3
I’ve found that self care is much more about connecting with myself than it is about buying products like face masks and bath bombs. Sure, spending time with yourself to use products like these is beneficial, but it’s not about the THINGS, it’s the TIME and INTENTION that makes all the difference.
I sometimes struggle to be in my body, and have found that this list of self connection practices has helped remind me of the many ways that I can come into my body and spend quality time with myself.
I invite you to choose at least one of these self connection practices to add to your daily ritual and/or routine, and see how it feels to choose yourself every day, even for just a few moments. <3
I’ve also made a fun self connection bingo graphic, so that you can add some play to your daily rituals!
How many days in a row can you get BINGO? Win-win-win all around!
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Virtual nude gathering TODAY!
Today’s the day! It’s the virtual nude gathering!
There’s still a little bit of time to register! The event is at 1pm eastern!
Let’s hang out naked together!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE NUDE GATHERING
USE CODE ‘BLMBR’ TO GET IN FREE
Image: Lior Allay September 2019
Models left to right: Doug Pierce, Lior Allay, me, Robert Beech, Anon, + Brat_trainer
Location: Crossing Hedgerows Sanctuary
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Karolina Von maternity double exposures
CAPTION FOR THE VIDEO ABOVE:
Hi friends! I just wanted to quickly come on here and show you my face. Hiiii I’m alive! And also share with you a photoset that I actually took really recently, last weekend May 2nd. My friend Karolina Von (I’ll link her information below because you should totally be following her on her website) she’s currently pregnant and she’s due in July and we took some double exposures of her with Glacier National Park. I think they’re absolutely gorgeous.
I’m so humbled and thankful that she trusted me with her ever-changing body and her safety and her image for these photos. So super wonderful. I always love spending time with her. We’ve created together 4 or 5 times, she doesn’t live super far away, she lives less than an hour away from here so we’ve created together several times. You can see a bunch of our work together in the directory, in my archives. This time we took pictures of her while she’s pregnant and they’re double exposures so of course I love them, because doubles are my favorite. I just wanted to share this photoset with you. It’s the entire roll of film, all 37 images, I’m sharing the whole thing with you. I haven’t edited them at all, it’s just as they were taken. I’m pretty excited and I think they’re wonderful.
What else do I want to say? I don’t want to say too much because I know I have the nude gathering tomorrow and posts going out about that and stuff so I don’t want to overwhelm you with too many posts. I just wanted to come on here and share this photoset with you and say hi and I love you.
If you’re new here, I only do photos every once in a while. It used to be a regular thing but it’s not anymore. I’m shifting away from doing photography and modeling stuff and going more into the community events and queer resources and peer support kind of things so if you’re here for regular new images and videos and stuff from me you might be a little disappointed because those will come sporadically.
I have like literal thousands of photos and videos in my archives for you to enjoy. It will take you a really really long time to get through all of them because there’s so many, there’s over 17,000 photos and over 2,000 videos so there’s no shortage of content to enjoy.
I’m also like… if I force myself to create on a strict regular basis, like I have to create something once a week or whatever, then it ends up being me creating things because I feel like I HAVE to instead of me creating things because I’m excited and WANTING to and inspired to, and yall deserve the kind of content that I’m really excited about making instead of the content that I feel forced to make. It’s best for all of us if I’m not forcing myself to continually make something new all the time, because nobody needs that. We need time to rest and to shift gears and change and transform and yeah… so I’m giving that to myself and I hope that you give that to yourself.
I hope you enjoy this photoset because I think it is INCREDIBLE. *mwah*
I’m going to post a few samples below and then also the link to see the whole gallery of it so, yay enjoy! Thanks for being here! I LOVE YOU! *mwah*
MEMBERS: CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE ENTIRE 37 IMAGE PHOTOSET
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Virtual nude gathering tomorrow!
The virtual nude gathering is tomorrow at 1pm eastern!
Let’s hang out naked together in a non sexual context!
All the info is at the link below
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE NUDE GATHERING
USE CODE ‘BLMBR’ TO GET IN FREEImage: Bunny Luna August 2019
Models left to right: Leopold, me, anon, Canischromatis, anon
Location: my home in Charlotte NC
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Virtual Nude Gathering + GBTL events + tattoo update!
CAPTION FOR THE VIDEO ABOVE:
Hi friends! It’s been a while since I’ve done a vlog so I wanted to come on here and say HI! Also the bird wants to say hi too, not sure what kind of bird that is, but hi! It’s so nice outside! I want to make this short because… lots of reasons, but I’ll make this short so… the main things I want to talk to you about are one: virtual nude gathering, the one for this month, er May, is coming up next weekend May 8th at 1pm EST, so if you want to join us, since you’re a member you get to join for free, all you have to do is use code BLMBR when you’re checking out to get your ticket on eventbrite. I’ll have all the links below and I’ll type up that code so you can just copy and paste or whatever you want to do.
I’m very excited, last month’s, or April’s nude gathering was the first one I opened up to the public and it was AMAZING! There were a dozen of us there and we were from all across the United States, we had people join us from the Netherlands, from Australia, from Germany, from Malaysia. It was amazing, I had a super great time and I got some really wonderful feedback from everyone and the majority of people were like “can we do this for longer next time?” so instead of an hour like last month we’re going to do an hour and a half for this month. So if you want to come, link is down there! Join us I’m so excited!
The other thing I wanted to talk about was I’ve been doing some updates to my website slowly, like incrementally and I’m really excited because I’m improving the way that all of this is working and everything is going to be looking fancier, so if you notice things are looking different than they used to be that’s because I’m doing updates. I’d love to hear your feedback if you’re having any issues or if you have any questions or if you’re just like “hey this looks awesome” you can email me at bunnyluna@pm.me or you can comment below. Yeah I’m excited!
I’m really looking forward to spending time with you at the virtual nude gathering! And also, I don’t want to put too many links in here, but Going Beyond the Lens has 2 events every month, we have the art share coming up and the conversation event also. Last month’s events went really well, they were smaller than our usual events and we think that’s because the weather is getting warmer and people want to be outside instead of inside during the weekend on the computer doing an event. So I’d love to hear your feedback on that too if you’re someone who’s been to them and were like, had other things going on or yeah if you wanna see if we can do other dates and stuff. I don’t know, let me know! We’re open to changing things up to make it work for everyone so yeah.
Uhm what else? Those are the main big things. I’ll have links below for the art share and conversation event for Going Beyond the Lens. The topic this month is femininity so I’m kinda excited and also like… I don’t know, I won’t be presenting at this one because I don’t have a lot to say about… well maybe I do have a lot to say about femininity, but I presented at the last one and we’re taking turns presenting so it’s not all 3 of us presenting every time because that’s kind of unnecessary, especially since we have guest speakers for our conversation events which is wonderful. So yeahhh I’d love to hear your feedback, I hope you’ve been doing good. I’m just really glad that it’s finally getting warm.
Also! ALSO! My tattoo… all of this! I’m finally finished with all the linework for it. Alex finished up the linework last week on the 22nd and I absolutely love it. So I’ll show you the new stuff! I now have a little dragonfly, this is all new, this is new, this is new, and then the whole top of my back is new. Yayyyyy. So that means that next time we get to start on color!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited yall! Alex is the same artist who did this tattoo, so yeah you know it’s going to be awesome because Alex is awesome and I’m super excited. Cover me in plants, I’m going to turn into a tree! Yay!
Join me at the virtual nude gathering next Saturday May 8th at 1pm EST. The next 2 weekends are GBTL events, is it the next 2? No, it’s.. there’s a… I’ll put all the dates and stuff below, I don’t remember if they’re all consecutive weeks or not. I think they are? But I don’t have a calendar in my brain.
So yeah, I love you! Thank you for being here! Your support means everything to me! Yeah I’m so excited to hang out with you virtually and naked! Yay! *mwah*
May 8th 1pm: VIRTUAL NUDE GATHERING TICKETS HERE
Use code ‘BLMBR’ to get in for FREE
May 15th 1pm: GBTL FEMININITY ART SHARE TICKETS HERE (FREE)
May 15th 1pm: SUBMIT YOUR FEMININITY ART HERE
May 23rd 1pm: GBTL FEMININITY COMMUNITY CONVERSATION TICKETS HERE (CHOOSE YOUR DONATION)
Special Guest Eva Villalobos!
Oh!! I forgot to mention it in the vlog, but GBTL’s one year birthday is coming up this month on the 18th and we will be hosting a BIRTHDAY SUIT BIRTHDAY PARTY to celebrate! We are launching a patreon for GBTL and members of the GBTL patreon will be invited to join the birthday party… come celebrate with us!
GBTL PATREON HERE TO JOIN THE BDAY SUIT BDAY PARTY MAY 18th 5pm