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Suspension: a journey. Part one.
Last night I took the first step toward a goal of mine. While I am very curious and enthusiastic to try new things in BDSM, and I am usually exceedingly open about trying them, there has been a...
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Over-saturation.
Lately I have been feeling a need to sort of stop, slow things down, and take a step back from the community for a bit. That doesn’t mean ending my commitment to events I’ve already committed myself...
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Lee Harrington again.
I can’t help but be so inspired by him. Reading his latest blog posts, these words jumped out at me and are very appropriate to a lot of things I am trying to work through right now. “We try to change...
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Suspension: a journey. Part two.
This weekend I had the privilege and pleasure of attending the GRUE Pitt 3. Among meeting some new and amazing friends (yay!) and learning a lot about some wonderful things like boots and cigars...
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Because a little birdie was asking for it.
For my senior creative writing seminar, I chose to write a story heavy on the BDSM themes. A little birdie told me she wanted to read it and that I should share it here. Note that this is a work of...
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Creating a culture of “closet” shaming.
An ongoing trend I’ve noticed more recently is people insinuating that being “out” is the epitome of being kinky. The flip side of that, that no one is saying directly is: “Well, if you’re not out,...
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If you don’t know what you’re talking about, sit down, shut the fuck up, and...
So I’m about 15 days shy of being in the scene for a year (more to come on that later). Despite the experiences I have had, the knowledge I have gained, and the wonderful friends I have met, I still...
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Programming I want to see.
Recently, I have stepped up in my community to fill a void when several of our group leaders move on to the next big adventure in life. In a college town, our community is pretty transient. People come...
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Evolving thoughts on bootblacking.
When I first learned to bootblack, I thought I wanted to do it to provide a service to my community. I liked the idea of giving that service back to people in the community, regardless of whether I...
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“Your kink is not my kink and that’s okay…as long as you don’t talk about it.”
I noticed something, fairly recently, that really kind of made me sad. I was sitting at a munch (private, in a back room at a restaurant with no wait staff, so we were able to speak freely), talking...
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