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March 22, 2014 by Snarksy

Meandering

How often do you hear people discussing the chronological fluidity of sexuality? In my life, I rarely am party to these conversations. A lot of positive work has been done around fluid and queer sexual identities—from the basic idea that being bisexual doesn’t mean needing to ‘pick sides’, to the complexities of Judith Butler’s notions […]
January 6, 2014 by Snarksy

A Brief History of Kink Online: 1996 – soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm

(This post is part of a series about the history of kink online.) Today I am back to discussing one of my favorite parts of Internet history: Usenet.* In the early 90s, Usenet was one of the only places where kinksters could connect to each other online. The first major newsgroup for kinksters is called […]
December 23, 2013 by Snarksy

Sorry, Not Sorry, But Your Silence Around Abuse Is Not Helping

Some folks have pointed out that this post creates an unnecessary binary between abusers and abused, and this is a legitimate point I want to acknowledge. The cycle of abuse definitely means that some abusers were once abused themselves, and those people deserve support and compassion through their recovery. Thanks to the folks who called me out on […]
December 17, 2013 by Snarksy

This Last Week on A.S.B.: Procrastinator’s Edition

So! A few months ago, I started a new kind of post I like to call “This Day On A.S.B”. I wrote a lot there about why I love doing these posts so much, but basically old Usenet folks are quirky as shit and the content is weird, endearing, educational and vaguely sociology-ish in ways […]
November 15, 2013 by Snarksy

Topping From the Bottom Is Not Actually a Bad Thing, Part 2 – In Which We Realize That “Consensual” is the Only Official “Way to Be” in Kink

This post is a continuation of a series on why I hate the idea of “no topping from the bottom”. Catch Part 1 here. A few years ago I remember being at a small house-warming party with friends from what was then my local kink scene. I had decided I was probably not going to […]
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Watch my Kink Academy Video!

My presentation on Narratives of Sexual Assault in the BDSM Community from the CARAS conference last September is now up on Kink Academy! Thanks so much to Princess Kali for recording my workshop, and CARAS for hosting the event.

Click the link above to learn about how our scene has handled rape through time, and where those conversations are today.

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