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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...
The Trans Genocide Has Arrived
Every time circumstances call me to state that which others seem to fear to state, I get the strange impression that I am in a panopticon-of-self, both penetratingly observed and powerfully observing. I ask myself in those moments, “Is this...
I identify as a threat. (It’s Not Just A Meme)
About two weeks ago, I was asked to step-in as keynote speaker for 2025’s unabashed queer kink con. It was an honor, and I’d like to thank everyone who extended this responsibility to me. This is the meat of my keynote:
Some of you who...
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Radical Gender Ideology™, Queer Politics, Sex & Kink, Film, Media. I write. I'm a sex educator. I work in and for the Queer and trans communities. In other lives, I was a curator and a college professor, the devil in the details. My books are open.
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