Less than one week. Let that sink in, in less than one week’s time, not even seven days… A person who was chosen to be an international title holder was verbally attacked. This person was called a “chicken shit” because they chose to follow their heart and compete in a contest that was more them.…
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Community Comment: How our community helps consent violators; not the victim
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By Rhee Metzel This past few months really has me thinking, possibly too much. That is not a bad thing. When I came out about my own abuse I was in 8th grade. So 13 or 14. The amount of shit I heard was awful. I was trafficked as a child prostitute for men by…
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Community Comment: Down the ‘rabbit hole’
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By Jeff Gberg “Little Alice fell down the (rabbit) hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul.” – Lewis Carroll If you were an outsider, a newcomer, or someone looking to find where they belong… what would you think based on what we have seen, read, or heard the last many weeks, months, or even building…
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Community Comment: Reclaiming our Leather Victimhood
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It’s 2018 and in the Leather Community, victims are the enemy.
Not just any victims, mind, just the ones who choose not to be. “Drama” is the sin, not injustice. “Exclusion” is the virtue, not change. We have always been at war with East Asia.
The “1984” allusion might have been a tad hyperbolic, but in light of “International Leather Victim 2018”, an article published by an IML 2017 top 20 contestant, we’re forced to ask ourselves how did this happen?
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Community Comment: Making Leather the Victim 2018
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What a time to be alive. The previous year filled itself with threats from multiple sources which threaten to tear the social fabric apart. The potential victims are numerous and varied. Yet little did we know that our own leather community was amongst their number. Thank heavens, then, for the article “International Leather Victim 2018,” without which this terror may have gone unnoticed. In the short read, the author Pup Chomper bemoans the imminent collapse of our community brought on by the whippersnappers what with their social media self-victimization.
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Community Comment: A Letter To The American People
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Dear fellow Americans, The next two years will test the fortitude of our democracy. It will be a worldwide lesson in how America functions as a nation and how its founding principles ensure tyranny never goes unchecked. Donald Trump’s executive order to ban certain populations from entering the United States goes against the grain of…
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Over the last 6 weeks or so, I have languished over whether or not to write, and then post this. After much consideration, I decided to share this. If I did not, and the latter part of the title holds true, I would likely regret not doing everything in my power to save something I…
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Community Comment: Remember the Prides of June
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The first step toward healing the divisions among us is to listen to what marginalized folks in the community have been trying to tell us for years.
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Community Comment: Different identities NEED a different name
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By Jen Laws Regarding the “I’m NOT Cisgender” HuffPo opinion piece that seems to have a ridiculous amount of shares among our community: I am deeply disappointed to see this short-sighted, self encompassed, article being shared. Here (in our community), especially. Not only is the article simply a drooling monologue of wound measuring, it lacks…
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Community Comment: What we talk about when we talk about IML
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An opinion piece about how we frame IML in a way that can (and does) marginalize POC, women, and transfolk and how conversation is starting to change that.
