Well, I guess this is where things start getting a little strange. I never thought about putting together a blog before, certainly not a blog dealing with kink issues; I tend to stay publicly quiet about such things both for reasons of privacy as well as in consideration for my parents who do indeed accept me for being gay, but might need a bit of work should I ever tell them I am into kink. The reason behind this blog, I suppose, is that I have read a lot of blogs out there dealing with kink, most of them extremely good and wonderful. However I haven't read one, really that deals with kink in the way I have gotten to know it, from an academic perspective. As a graduate student studying sex, kink and sex are not just hot and steamy things that people do but actual activities where people act out their ideas about race, sex, gender and class, as well a a whole host of stuff.
So I thought that might be where this blog will head. In my travels through the kink world I've been finding lots of interesting things and fascinate, terrify and confuse me and this blog will, hopefully, be my way of dealing with it. A a kinky person of color I don't find too much mention about us and how we walk through a community that is usually presented as predominantly white and middle-class. Maybe there isn't all that much different, maybe it's just me being over-sensitive, but maybe I'm hitting on something that the kink community needs to talk more about. I don't make a claim to be a great leader, I'm not even a member of any kink groups and have only been to IML once (gasp, such blasphemy!!). But this is an adventure and I hope those who actually read this blog might find something good to take away with it. In either case- Allonsy.
--The Sidekink
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