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.
Community Comment
Community Comment: Remember the Prides of June
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Category: Opinion
Opinion pieces by our columnists, writers and readers.
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note: The tide is high
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When this publishes, it will be four and a half months since my husband Jeff died of a heart attack. It will also be my first birthday in a decade that he wasn’t a part of. I’m not saying that to garner sympathy. It’s more of a statement of fact. I’m still adjusting to things.…
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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.
Riot Sir
Riot Sir – Don’t force yourself into unhappiness
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Dear Riot Sir, I am sexually and emotionally frustrated. I have been with my husband for ten years and legally married for 5. I understand there being a cooling off period after so long but it is not just that. I am VERY kinky and although he tries he is just not kinky like I…
Riot Sir
Riot Sir – What is sexual freedom?
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What is sexual freedom? Those of us on the harder end of the sexual spectrum tend to feel that sexual freedom is the right for us to engage in that which satisfies the itch. The cravings that drive us insane being forced to live in a vanilla world. The vanilla world, more so the morality…
Community Comment
Community Comment: A Letter from Stephen Lane, Owner of Oxballs
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Editors Note: Have you ever said something and wished it never came out of your mouth? What about posting something on your Facebook? They say once it’s on the Internet it never goes away. This weekend that was proven. Stephen Lane, the owner of Oxballs, wrote an article in Leatherati almost 7 years ago. This…
Riot Sir
Riot Sir – Fifty Shades of Abuse
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“Fifty Shades Darker” is out in theaters and it is rant time and a not so secret confession. I hate the “Fifty Shades of Grey” series. Why? Because it is abusive and bad for the kink community and people in general. Wait. Wait. Hold on. Yes, but sort of no. Kink erotica and art is…
Riot Sir
Riot Sir- An Introduction
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Welcome! Riot Sir is open for business. But what am I in the business of exactly? In the tradition of such columns as Ask Larry and Ms. Manners, I am here to answer your questions as only a leather anarchist can. Muahhaha! Each month in this space will either be advice from yours truly or…
National, Puppy on the Prowl
On Leash: Handler Social at Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend
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WASHINGTON — Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend: January 13-15, 2017 In the world of the Human Puppy there are puppy moshes, social events for pups and handlers, munches, and more. One of the areas that seems to be lacking is events for the Handlers. What we are looking at in this article is the first of what is…
