Where the monkey bars end: BDSM for Resistance
A few reasons why I choose to engage with BDSM when Transformative Justice is right there
In later posts, I will discuss how BDSM plays within coloniality and how we can utilize BDSM as a lily pad to leap beyond reform.
I do not have the resources for a transcript, so here is an extensive list of tags.
Where the monkey bars end
[chicken wings] [words do things] [diet coke] [aspartame] [oral fixation] [binge eating] [sensory seeking] [Benson] [adrienne maree brown & autumn maree brown’s discussion of ‘enough’] [How to Survive the End of the World podcast] [workplace abuse] [complicity] [consent] [DV] [poverty] [anti-queerness] [capitalism] [dehumanization] [social sciences] [QuantCrit] [actually wanting to get up in the morning] [flow] [“Measuring Love” Brown Paper] [Holding Change by adrienne maree brown] [information architecture] [carceral archipelago] [miming] [settler epistemic economy (Ruíz, 2020)] [web design] [Your Computer Is On Fire] [beyond carcerality and coloniality] [Pluto in Capricorn] [transformative justice] [Pluto in Aquarius] [Christ consciousness] [eugenics] [Foucault] [beyond normative analysis] [breaking out of the matrix] [dissociation] [kal v’chomer] [playing in the ruins] [schism] [mindfulness jars] [soil] [2PAC] [The Rose That Grew From Concrete] [anti-ableist, anti-eugenic play structures] [wheelchair accessible] [occupied Flow State] [‘Bars’ from Sunflower Moon] [collective visioning] [parallel play] [primordial waters] [Land Back] [brat summer] [‘The Snap‘ from Sunflower Moon] [settlement houses] [CP] [femininity] [feminism] [The Feminist Killjoy Handbook] [Sense of Community] [systems of inclusion and exclusion] [friction] [assessment] [evaluation] [misfit] [killjoy] [Bennett, 1964] [health as a concept] [functionalist structuralism] [Nudges] [What I Did for Love] [general chaos] [projective geometry] [‘Forbidden Fruits’ from The Lavender Libretto] [the wisdom of coastlines] [borders] [rock climbing] [Ludacris on a glacier] [7th Heaven] [ABA] [A-B-A] [death and rebirth] [circles versus spirals] [fuckboy healing] [play] [BDS] [substance use] [addictive behaviors] [Home as an Institution on Notes from the Haunted Woods] [Kalief Browder & Fractals of Solitary Confinement, a forthcoming blog post] [‘stuttering vamp, stalled ignition’ from play|ground: the musical on The Haunted Woods on SoundCloud] [‘ice cream cone’ from WE ARE STILL HERE on The Haunted Woods on SoundCloud] [For You: Live From Social Death on The Haunted Woods on SoundCloud] [copaganda] [Omelas’ House] [desecrated sex] [8th house Capricorn stellium] [Capricorn moon, Uranus, Neptune, and Venus] [Scorpio Sun in Sidereal] [pleasure and comfort in friction versus corrosion] [BDSM as healing] [polishing (Ahmed, 2024)] [play magic] [deconstructing gender] [generative discomfort] [Benson plotting a mutiny] [Hecate’s cave] [audio erotica enables technological versus bodily dissociation] [remote healing] [remote play] [the seeds for deprogramming the death cult] [WWJD] [desire as discomfort, pain] [hell] [grave sins] [deconstructing religious trauma] [desecrated Christ consciousness] [reparenting through BDSM] [Rap God reflections on The Haunted Woods on SoundCloud] [community as the 7th circle of hell on the chthonic circus YouTube] [TT ban] [fractal] [what i thought love was in Sunflower Moon] [Aquarius as cupbearer] [cosmic] [BDSM as liminality, as Desire 101]
*the practice of Kintsugi is beautiful; filling the entire void with gold just felt colonial *smiling/sweating emoji*
an access note
because the organization of these tags and linking of references is labor I do not have the energetic/physical resources for, I do want to acknowledge that access work *is* labor. I plan to make a post on the process of doing this access work to point out what actually goes into doing so - this makes the ‘invisible’ [culturally gaslit out of envisioned realities] work ‘visible’ [visioned into our realities] and makes tangible the processes we need for collective access.