round-up: 2/22
Happy Monday!
Here’s what I have for you today. It’s a quickie.
Housekeeping
What I’m reading
Quotations
Tweets
Housekeeping:
My fiction collection, Burials, remains available for preorder. And it’s only $4.
I had fun doing a lil painting yesterday. It was fun.
What I’m reading:
What I’m watching:
Euphoria
Search Party
Quotations:
Leathersex is, like most other queer-coded subcultures, especially ripe for commodification right now.
-Davey Davis
As with other activities that are typically classified as BDSM, certain popular modes of rope share a great deal with ancient practices that emphasize breath work, mindfulness, and endurance. A version of rope bondage has been assimilated into Wellness™ like meditation or whatever starvation cult they’re shilling as a diet these days—although maybe polework’s gentrification by racist & whorephobic fitness cosplayers is a better comparison here. In fact, many straight people who come to rope through Wellness™, or what amounts to what my grandmother might have once called a “marital aid,” are unaware that rope bondage hurts, or that it’s supposed to (or so my leather associate, leatherdyke and rigger Daemonumx, tells me). It’s not just straight people, of course: scrub just a little, and beneath the nonspecific spirituality with which some white players greasepaint their practice, you’ll find Orientalism, racism, and fetishization masquerading as profundity, preference, and mystique.
-Davey Davis
Tweets:
Have a great week—
-Despy Boutris