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Badly Licked BearWriting about the things that matter, and some of the things that don't.
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Leather & Trans History Venus Infers on the 1994 International Ms. Leather Contest
This journey into leather and BDSM history that’s been gifted to me via the recent aquisition of dozens of leatherdyke and BDSM magazines feels like a deep journey into my own DNA, and it feels like just the perspective I need as I go about...
Why Be A TERF? Why Be Transphobic? Why Be Anti-Trans, Anyways?
At some point, not many years ago, it became necessary for me to address and explain transphobes, TERFs, and anti-trans bigots to my students. Likewise, as I publicly transitioned, and started to experience, directly, both the realities of...
Leather History: The Sandmutopia Guardian #3 on 1988's International Ms. Leather Contest
I’m currently in deep research and reset mode, absorbing a multiple archives of leather and BDSM materials into my library, and two early issues of The Sandmutopia Guardian & Dungeon Journal, have come across my desk.12 As we’re fresh off o...
Once Again, I Wish My Superpower Were Invisibility
The problem with using Sue Storm, a.k.a. Fantastic Four’s Invisible Woman, as my personal icon for Transgender Day of Visibility is that when one searches online for images of Sue Storm, one finds endless images of Invisible Woman being…wel...
Pillion, Divided
Pillion feels like the “black & blue vs. white & gold dress” conversation of the moment, with relevant audiences (audiences with real experience in the BDSM or leather communities) divided along perceptual lines based upon their lived exper...
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Radical Gender Ideology™, Queer Politics, Sex / Kink / BDSM, Film, Media. I write. Sex educator and leatherdyke. I work within and for the Queer and trans communities. Past lives include: Program Director, Curator, Professor.
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