This weekend, I’ve been participating in the Atlanta Poly Weekend 2012 (APW2012) conference. Just like last year, I was bowled over by the conference organizers’ hospitality. Just like last year, the conference brought together some of the brightest and most passionate people to discuss polyamory and its relationships with other social communities, political and interpersonal [...]
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Help me check BDSM’s privilege at the next KinkForAll unconference
The irony of what I’ll momentarily write about makes me giggle. The rawness of it makes me sad. And the details of it make me very angry. Last Saturday, February 25th, dozens upon dozens of people converged on the Tivoli Student Union for KinkForAll Denver (KFADEN). To many, the event was a thrilling and eye-opening [...]
On Letting The World Burn
And it’s go boys go They’ll time your every breath And every day you’re in this place you’re two days nearer death But you go… Well a process man am I and I’m tellin’ you no lie I work and breathe among the fumes that tread across the sky There’s thunder all around me and [...]
The Bus Driver and The Gadfly: What my activism looks like at BDSM parties
and now they press to tell me that I am brave. how sharply our children will be ashamed. taking at last their vengeance for these horrors. remembering how in so strange a time common integrity could look like courage. —Yevgeny Yevtushenko Shifting her weight nervously from one leg to the other, she fumbled to get [...]
Signal boost: “The Devaluation of Male Submission”
02 Jun 2011 at 15:49
maymay
BDSM psychology, Bitter and jealous, Community, Femdom, Male sexuality, Politics of sex
Reading sexual writing viscerally pains me these days. For a supposed “sex blogger,” this is a huge problem. In order to write well, I need to read a lot, and when I can’t read others’ sex blogs I’m sharply hamstrung. And why do I have this much trouble? Because the concept of eroticization itself has [...]
