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Boiled frogs can’t censor Blog Nine and Three-Quarters

27 Feb 2015 at 01:07

maymay

Communication, Community, Technology, Writing and blogging

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This image is a Tumblr message I received recently and it’s indicative of a problem whose scope I want more people to understand. Here’s the message: fishingforanvils: Thanks for having your own domain name – it helps me get past the school’s proxy servers and read up about rolequeer theory unobstructed! This is particularly timely […]

US officials’ justification for torture and sadomasochists’ justification for BDSM are reflected in each other

20 Dec 2014 at 14:45

maymay

Politics of sex, Torture and abuse

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A brief look at the US government’s justifications for its torture program and the way sadomasochistic subcultures discuss BDSM shows the same pattern, the same cycle of abuse, the same justifications for torture, are plainly visible at every level of American society.

Allies Must Be Traitors: On Barnor Hesse’s “action-oriented identities”

04 Dec 2014 at 12:06

maymay

Politics of sex

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The 8 White Identities by [Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology] Barnor Hesse There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities. People who identify with whiteness are one of these. It’s about time we build an ethnography of whiteness, since white people have been the ones writing […]

A case study in how abusive shitstains strawman Consent as a Felt Sense [“On Ethical Domination”]

27 Nov 2014 at 11:10

maymay

Politics of sex

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(Posting anew so this will show up in #rolequeer tagspace.) theungrumpablegrinch: Maymay is annoyed with recent rolequeer discussion of domination, so I have a few words to add on the topic. Let’s say I have a friend and occasional lover; we’ll call him the Scotsman for reasons that may become apparent. One night I ask the […]

On the Evolution of Slavery: Owning Property is a Relation, not a Right

26 Nov 2014 at 13:46

maymay

Politics of sex

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So I want to share something I’m still working through. I tend not to share potentially inflammatory and early thoughts these days, mostly because of the spectre of the corrupt pop social justice mobsters who pounce on any chance they get to demonize me and my work. But I’m gonna share this anyway, this time, […]

Some unsolicited advice to dominants [power can not exist in a vacuum]

24 Nov 2014 at 08:00

maymay

Politics of sex

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rolequeer: rolequeer: I donâ€™t believe ethical domination is possible. But if I had to give a dominant who absolutely refuses to quit the game one bit of advice about how to make domination less unethical, that one piece of advice would be: DONâ€™T. DATE. SUBMISSIVES. Seriously, submissives are people who are willingly vulnerable, who face […]