Nov 152019
- Them.us has a profile of Chicago’s Leather Archives & Museum.
- And here’s another profile of the Leather Archives & Museum.
- The Films (Trips) podcast discusses the thriller film Cruising (1980) (previously discussed), with guest Dr. Brandon Arroyo of the Porno Cultures podcast. Dr. Arroyo talks about how this glimpse of pre-HIV, pre-cleaned up gay New York City showed us a way of being gay when normalization or assimilation was seen as impossible.
- Another grotesque case of a New Zealand man using the “Fifty Shades” defense when charged with murder of a woman.
- Dezeen talks about fetish culture as it relates to design. “Browse the fetish section of specialist outlets and you’ll find a world of strange anachronisms. It’s a world of faux-medievalness, of studded leather and dungeons, of stocks and pillories, of old fashioned schoolroom discipline embodied by the cane, the obscure world of equestrianism represented in harnesses and riding crops, early 20th century warfare in gas masks and uniforms, anachronistic healthcare in medical play.”
- On Kinkly, Molly Lazarus talks about not oversharing your kinkiness with vanilla people.
