Dec 172020
- Portland’s Catalyst, described as “a living room with a dungeon” has a GoFundMe campaign to stay open in the current economic hardship.
- The New Republic writes about the Evangelical Christian Right’s efforts to rebrand as anti-porn and anti-human trafficking, hopefully to bring liberals into a coalition, but their politics are still strongly conservative.
- In related news, Visa and Mastercard have pulled out of doing business with PornHub, which many sex worker advocates will also say will actually hurt sex workers. The link in these two cases is New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof, who uncritically references Evangelical anti-sex worker groups.
- CVLTNation profiles Japanese bondage artist, photographer and magazine publisher, Yasushi Arakawa (aka Kai-Ichi Seda).
- Dangerous Minds profiles the seminal Goth magazine Propaganda and its founder Fred Berger. “Propaganda never advocated Satanism, occultism, Nazism, sadomasochism or homosexuality, but that didn’t stop some people from making accusations to that effect.”
- Madame Posh has a YouTube video talking about the history of kink from a black perspective.
