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On Rolequeer Methodology: Effective ideological anarchism

11 Jul 2015 at 00:08

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R. Foxtale has a new blog post up discussing some interesting meta points related to rolequeer theory and, specifically, the methodology behind its own theorizing: We’re not professional academics, not professional activists, not professional writers, nothing – nor do we aspire to any of those positions of authority. We are kids on the Internet trying […]

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 […]

A short etymological exploration of consent, or, Contractual consent and the privatization of experience

04 Apr 2015 at 17:02

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Politics of sex

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I was curious about the etymology of “contract” after remembering that the etymology of “consent” is actually literally “to feel together,” itself a formulation of the Latin “con-” prefix (meaning “with”) and “sentire” (meaning “to feel”). Contract, perhaps unsurprisingly, is much more direct. It is from the Latin “contractus,” which means exactly the same thing […]

HowTo: Download a complete copy of any FetLife user’s posts, pictures, comments, and other activity using the FetLife Export wizard

16 Mar 2015 at 00:07

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Technology

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Quite a few years ago, when I was much younger and still naively believed the BDSM, fetish, and leather subcultures deserved any respect, I saw the writing on the wall and wrote an essay titled “FetLife Considered Harmful,” in which I argued that this subculture’s digital poster boy, FetLife.com, was “the worst of both worlds” […]

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

27 Feb 2015 at 01:07

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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 […]

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

04 Dec 2014 at 12:06

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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 […]