From accountability processes to convention presenter applications and all other sorts or organizational copy, “values alignment” has become an ever increasingly popular way to position kink institutions and personal practices. In our opening session for the season,  we'll interrogate the fantasy of “values based community” and what it means to envision values as a place...

Kinksters love talking about resistance. Sometimes it’s demonized, like in the image of the sub who can’t submit or  the rope partner who has some impediment to becoming totally transparent in order to “share authentically.” Other times, kink itself is framed as a practice of political resistance, a political act that goes against sexual conservatism...