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Rebecca Blanton
Jan 8, 20186 min read
Consent 201
It’s great that vanilla America is finally discovering the idea of consent. Not our judges or politicians apparently, but a large number...
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Rebecca Blanton
Jan 3, 20185 min read
Is Non-Binary the Future of Gender?
News headlines are floating around about 20 percent of Millennials identifying as “non-binary.” This is based on a new study by GLAAD...
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Rebecca Blanton
Nov 7, 20174 min read
What Most Bi Folks Won’t Tell You
Twitter has decided they want to wipe out bisexuality. Over the past week, Twitter has hidden any photos with the hashtag “bisexual.” The...
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Rebecca Blanton
Oct 11, 20171 min read
Olly Olly Oxen Free
We come out today because Cleve designed and Gilbert sewed; Alvin danced And RuPaul doesn’t always wear pants. Leslie got the Stone Butch...
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Rebecca Blanton
Aug 2, 20173 min read
The Problem with Passing
I pass as a heterosexual cis-female and I hate that. I have always passed (well, more or less) regardless of what I wear, my hair,...
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Rebecca Blanton
Jul 5, 20174 min read
Pronoun Wars, Part II
The other night I was at a poetry open mic billed as a “safe space” for the LGBTQAII community. As per the norm in such spaces, the host...
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Rebecca Blanton
Jun 26, 20175 min read
Sex and the Resistance
It is Pride month. This year is particularly politically charged. There are fights about adding black and brown stripes to the Pride...
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Rebecca Blanton
Jun 15, 20173 min read
Landmines and Pride
Everyone fucks up. It is the result of being human beings. Pride this year has presented one million more ways for us to screw up and...
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Rebecca Blanton
Jun 8, 20172 min read
Bi Pride
It’s Pride month again. This is the second year pride comes when I have a male partner and we are exclusive. This makes pride events...
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Rebecca Blanton
May 26, 20174 min read
Should Kink Assimilate?
Kink, in many forms, is now more popular and more visible than ever. I knew we had gone mainstream when American Dad, Family Guy and...
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Rebecca Blanton
Feb 22, 20173 min read
Liminal Existance
A friend of mine, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, just became an American citizen. Upon receiving her passport, she posted on Facebook...
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Rebecca Blanton
Feb 12, 20175 min read
Stop Hitting Yourself!
In The Princess Bride one character keeps using the term “inconceivable.” Every time he says something is inconceivable the thing...
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Rebecca Blanton
Feb 2, 20173 min read
Kinky Resistance
Let’s talk about the idea of “religious freedom” and why it is absolutely imperative for all of us to be as queer and kinky as possible....
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Rebecca Blanton
Jan 13, 20174 min read
Love in Times of Great Danger
I have never chosen a partner to make a political point. However, I live in a country where my body and my sexuality are constantly under...
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Rebecca Blanton
Dec 13, 20164 min read
Pronoun Wars
The presence of non-binary gendered folks is becoming more known. Some groups in the kink and queer worlds are starting to recognize that...
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Rebecca Blanton
Nov 19, 20165 min read
Kinky Folks, We Better Work
Hey my kinky peeps! I love you. I do. But, as a community, we have got some work to do. We are not inclusive as we should be. We are...
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Rebecca Blanton
Nov 16, 20165 min read
This Isn’t About JUST Race
We are six days out from the shock of the cheeto’s election. Things are starting to clarify how various social justice groups are going...
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Rebecca Blanton
Nov 13, 20162 min read
But Will It Play in Peoria?
I came out in 1988. Gay rights (it was called Gay rights at the time) were beginning to get some momentum. However, the queer movement...
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Rebecca Blanton
Nov 9, 20162 min read
Dear Republicans…
I know you are dancing and drinking and celebrating what you see is your candidate winning. I know you don’t get why most Americans (and...
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Rebecca Blanton
Aug 21, 20165 min read
Polyamory as a Sexual Orientation???
Vice.com just put out an article about people seeking to qualify polyamory as a sexual orientation. It’s not, but don’t stop reading....
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