Jun 152025
- The Pink Kink podcast talks about the history of the spanking community and its relationship with the broader BDSM community, the growth of spanking events, and spanking content creators like Shadow Lane and the late Ed Lee. (Starts at 30 minutes)
- Due to the rise of anti-queer politics, this year there will be much less corporate sponsorship for Pride events. This might be a good thing.
- Lavender magazine covers the dual exhibit of leather columnist Steve Lenius and photographer Andrew Bertke.
- Audrey Warne explores the sadomasochistic imagery in the work of surrealist photographer Man Ray, 1929-32.
- In Religion Dispatches, Jeff Sharlet writes about the dominatrix/superheroine aesthetic adopted by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and other women in the Trump/MAGA orbit. “…in the gendered politics of Trumpism certain women convey their particular authority by conforming to conventional ideas of “sexy,” ultra-femme variations of styles appropriate to the situation… [.] Trump women, goes the thinking, are “real” precisely because they try hard to perform “woman”; liberal and Left women are not “real women” because, in this logic, feminism makes them rebel against their “natural” roles.”
- From Archive.org:
- Scan of November 1994 (#147) edition of Italian BDSM magazine Club
- The exploitation film One Shocking Moment (1965), which includes a scene of a woman beating a man.
