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but some stubborn nugget of data keeps coming back

the thing I’ve been obsessing over since I started diving into reading about kink; how it connects to somatic trauma work.

kink as body technology. the english word kink itself as indicating a literal actual kink in a form that ought to resemble something else— as english of a concept as anything I can think of— and how the embodiment practices of kink and technological applications thereof put kink and kinky people directly at odds with a world that is anti-embodiment anti-sex anti-queer and anti-life.

I am forever in a dark tunnel full of horrors but fragments of ore are gleaming under my fingernails

hell I’m thinking back to the fantasies I had and the stories I wrote for years and years when I was a child after being medically tortured. I can’t think of any way to describe them other than kink.

they weren’t sexual, but they were all about my body as the copper wire in a circuit of power. the ace dyke writing feels connected to that experience; reading it actually helped me connect to some of those memories and most of those are nothing more than scorchmarks. their non-sexuality links to my then non-sexuality and helps me feel clearer and more empowered about what happened.

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from Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice, edited by Mark Thompson, Daedalus Publishing Company, 1991

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stephen h. moore, from leaving atlanta, from between certain death and a possible future, edited by mattilda bernstein sycamore, 2021

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Kate Huh, from Kid Pirate In Suburbia, from Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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robert birch, from disclosure, from between certain death and a possible future, edited by mattilda bernstein sycamore, 2021

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andrew r. spieldenner, from to say goodbye, from between certain death and a possible future, edited by mattilda bernstein sycamore, 2021

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patrick milian, from undead disco: variations on a theme, from between certain death and a possible future, edited by mattilda bernstein sycamore, 2021

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patrick milian, from undead disco: variations on a theme, from between certain death and a possible future, edited by mattilda bernstein sycamore, 2021

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furiosa is still unfolding to me. I think I need to see it again.

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Anya Taylor-Joy / Furiosa

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FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA (2024) | official trailer #1

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Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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