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The people who formulated “consent as a felt sense” are prison abolitionists, bee-tee-dubs.

29 Nov 2015 at 02:25

maymay

Myths and misconceptions, Politics of sex, Technology

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Quite a number of people seem to forget or (intentionally?) omit that the ever increasingly cited argument for consent as a felt sense was written by a pair of people (like myself) who advocate immediate—not gradual—prison abolition. Not to mention the whole “we’re anarchists” thing, having explicitly said we have no interest in advocating a […]

Software Development as Direct Action

22 Jul 2015 at 19:36

maymay

Community, My Videos, Myths and misconceptions, Personal history, Politics of sex, Technology

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Search for FetLife profiles by all profile fields (age/sex/location/orientation/about me/looking for/number of pictures, and much more) without needing to login

08 Jul 2015 at 20:10

maymay

Myths and misconceptions, Politics of sex, Technology

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So, this has been available for quite a while, but now that FetLife is actively removing links to it from venues they control (according to this tweet, which was part of this conversation, anyway), I figured it’s time to spread more links to it. :) Try it out: Log out of your FetLife account (if […]

Rolequeerness and Felt-Consent have escaped the filter bubble

08 Jul 2015 at 17:09

maymay

Politics of sex

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R. Foxtale found the loveliest thing! :) In a /r/Anarchism discussion of Liberating Ourselves in the Boudoir: An Anarcha-Feminist Perspective Against BDSM, user ErnieMaclan put together this fabulous overview of some key ideas in rolequeer theory, with excerpts and everything I’ve already covered how the ideas in one of our earliest essays, consent as a […]

On release of 12th installment of the FetLife Meat List, publication of third feature “How FetLife Failed” article in 3 months

24 May 2015 at 11:59

maymay

Politics of sex

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Last week, Mikandi, the third-party app store entirely devoted to porn apps, published a feature article titled “The FetLife Meatlist: How A Social Network Failed Its Users” detailing the continued regular releases of installments of Mircea Popescu’s infamous catalog of FetLife profiles of young women. This marks the third feature article in a mainstream online […]

According to their customer records, FetLife is a porn site, not a social network, whose paying customers are 13 times more likely to be rapists than non-paying users

23 May 2015 at 13:47

maymay

Politics of sex

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There was a predictable outcry from pro-BDSM bloggers like Rebecca Hiles when the “FetLife Meat List,” a simple spreadsheet cataloging the FetLife usernames and basic profile info of 30,000 users who identified themselves as female and under 30 years old, was released. But as usual, all Social Justice Warrior rhetoric condemning the list was shortsighted […]