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Things Are Terrifying! How Do I Keep Going?
I was lucky enough to get to interview Mir Green from Wicked Grounds today and it helped me refine a few thoughts I have been playing...
Rebecca Blanton
Jul 11, 20225 min read
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EARN IT Act: Using the pretense of child sexual exploitation to invade privacy
Ah, politicians are once again engaging in a favorite past-time: fanning fears of massive child predator rings as a pretense to get rid...
Rebecca Blanton
Feb 9, 20226 min read
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Is BDSM Inescapably Racist:4 years later
Four years ago I posted about the difficulty of navigating BDSM and racism. The language we use (Master/slave) and many of our practices...
Rebecca Blanton
Jan 11, 20213 min read
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Election 2020 and Erotic Power
With the 2020 election just days from now, I have spent an enormous amount of time thinking about power: structural power, institutional...
Rebecca Blanton
Oct 31, 20205 min read
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Free the Pussy, Free the World
I have spent nearly 30 years working in political activism. My graduate work in political psychology focused on identity, education and...
Rebecca Blanton
Mar 2, 20182 min read
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Adding the K to “LGBTQ+” – NO
There is a new call to add a K for “kink” to the LGBTQ+ acronym. This call for more inclusion has highlighted a couple of issues in both...
Rebecca Blanton
Feb 4, 20184 min read
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Beyond ” Me Too”
This weekend, the call for women (sic, originals post was problematically gendered) to post “me too” on their Facebook page to indicate...
Rebecca Blanton
Oct 16, 20175 min read
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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...
Rebecca Blanton
Jun 26, 20175 min read
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Stop Hitting Yourself!
In The Princess Bride one character keeps using the term “inconceivable.” Every time he says something is inconceivable the thing...
Rebecca Blanton
Feb 12, 20175 min read
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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....
Rebecca Blanton
Feb 2, 20173 min read
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Lately I feel like I am watching one of those suspense or horror films where the protagonist makes a mistake in the beginning (e.g.,...
Rebecca Blanton
Jan 22, 20174 min read
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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...
Rebecca Blanton
Jan 13, 20174 min read
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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...
Rebecca Blanton
Nov 19, 20165 min read
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Build Community, Not Walls
The recent election of the racist cheeto has many folks in the kink community reeling. We are hurt and horrified by the hate harbored in...
Rebecca Blanton
Nov 10, 20163 min read
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Americans Love Rape
The worst part of the aftermath of being raped was being told over and over again that I must report the rape. Every health professional...
Rebecca Blanton
Sep 14, 20163 min read
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Naked, On Display, and Empowered
I get naked in public… a lot. I do burlesque and performance art with a number of groups and much of it involves taking my clothes off....
Rebecca Blanton
Aug 28, 20163 min read
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Orlando, June 2016
I am sick about the news from Orlando this morning. I am sick of living in a country that allows churches and mosques and temples to...
Rebecca Blanton
Jun 12, 20162 min read
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Comimg Out
I have had to come out about things a few times in my life. I’m queer. I’m bipolar. I am kinky. None of these things are obvious at first...
Rebecca Blanton
May 16, 20165 min read
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