Building on the Salon.com piece I posted last week, this is my brilliant partner’s dissection of the supportive systems of oppression that operate to shore up the status quo in BDSM.

Thoroughly suggested reading if you’re not white, heterosexual, class-privileged, cisgendered, conventionally attractive, able-bodied ect, and have always wondered why the BDSM Scene just doesn’t work for you.

maymay:

Earlier today, I got into a bit of a tiff in the comments at The Edge of Vanilla, which is the inimitable Tom Allen’s blog. What began as a calling out of some of the racist, sexist, and classist replies to Tracy Clark-Flory’s fantastic interview with anthropology professor Margot Weiss…