Also, let me point out that the more people contribute individually and with their own initiative, the less each of us has to do centrally to make things happen. Although this is counter-intuitive to many people who believe oversight is essential, I believe the abundance of resources that KFANYC managed to procure in literally about 3 months time with no prior blueprint in these communities proves those people incorrect.

Many (although not all) times, oversight in groups like these are really just another way of expressing distrust or ego-centricity, and that’s just pointless.

Sigrid, I can’t say thank you to you personally enough times, so I’ll just keep saying it: thank you for the amazing and exemplary support you gave the idea, especially from so far away. You are the perfect figurehead for the good people I’m betting on to step up with their own initiative and resources and make the global vision of all the great, positive things KinkForAll can be a reality. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.

That said, I’ll bet there are other folks in Anarkink who would be really interested in helping with such a thing; I’ll ask and see if there’s anyone who wants to get involved.

I’m hugely in favor of bringing other organizations involved with spreading KinkForAlls, but I’m also insistent that their participation come not from organizational resources, but from individual resources. In other words, what I loved about Boymeat and Lolita and Dov’s participation, to name just the obvious examples of many more similar stories, is that it was them, as people, who participated. It was not them as representatives of some larger organization.

Again, this is not about institutional support, but rather individual collaboration. For more on this great topic and the mathematics behind why it works today, I urge you to watch Clay Shirky’s amazing 20-minute TEDTalk video, Institution vs. Collaboration.

The point I’m trying to make is that (a) scene organizations will therefore change as a new generation starts having a greater impact on their memberships, and (b) a lot of the time, we can jumpstart that by making an serious effort to join the organizations or at least involve them. The KFANYC group was mostly younger. I wonder if this isn’t so much because older non-internet people were uninterested, as that they simply didn’t know about it — or think it was for them — because it wasn’t promoted through the channels they’re used to. Maybe other KFAs could make an effort to promote with fliers, cards, at in-person meetings, etc.

All this having been said, I have no real idea what the scene is like in New York. So forgive me if you really did do your best to get established organizations involved and they ignored you.

I want to put all of my KFA records online too – it’s my goal for my next chunk of free time!