some kinda deer/coyote dyke

you need to be more specific. books? films? fiction? non-fiction? p*rn mags?

i'm staring at my bookshelf right now...

slapping leather by ford & scofield is a wonderful historical archive of queer and gay rodeo culture. not exactly capitol-L Leather, but (imo) tangentially related.

leatherfolk - radical sex, people, politics and practice by mark thompson is harder to come by but is an absolute must-read for the context of our leather culture and the intersectionality throughout, largely thru anecdotal accounts.

i'd already recommended in a past post the leatherboy's handbook (3rd edition) by vince andrews, and while focused primarily on leatherboys, it provides a ton of historical context and guidance for old guard protocols that a lot of us still use. (it does, however, defend the use of "leatherboy" as non-gendered and a role - just like how anyone can call themselves "daddy.")

Life, Leather, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Leathersex

On Our Backs (tons of old issues of the mag available in the Internet Archive)

Coming to Power: the Lesbian S/M Manuel

Bloodsisters (leatherdyke erotic documentary)

We have until Monday, June 15th, to avoid eviction and utility disconnection! I’ve been in and out of jobs with our current health situation and fell behind on rent. We desperately need the support of our community at this time to find some stability in a turbulent and tumultuous time. Please like, share, save, comment, and donate- every bit is greatly appreciated!

C/A: lavendernights

V: alewis35

Leather ponies out and about!

My parents pulled me for the fourth grade, and I was homeschooled until the end of high school. Nine entire years. They pulled me from the public schools for a perfectly reasonable reason — my mental health was in the toilet and I needed to be away from other kids who might hurt me as they had spent all of my third grade year doing. My mom has a fucking PhD in neuroscience and tutors math professionally. She was, during the ten years that my siblings and I were homeschooled, the best, kindest, most caring, understanding, lovely teacher you could ask for.

But I'm still broken. That's the thing about homeschool. You can have the best experience possible in homeschool and still come out a fundamentally broken person. My social development stopped at the age of 10. I'm a 22 year old adult woman with the social skills of a 10 year old. That's not to say that that COULDN'T have happened in public school, but being homeschooled only made it more of a certainty. Both of my siblings and I have fewer coping strategies on average than our peers with similar neurodivergencies because we basically did not live in the real world for a decade during key developmental years.

Don't ban homeschooling because of the religious nuts. There are plenty of them. Hell, I KNEW plenty of them. But there are also plenty of quote unquote "good" homeschool families. Ones that do everything you would hope the model homeschool family does. And they are still hurting their children, even if unintentionally, because homeschooling is an inhrently traumatic experience. It's isolating. For seven entire years of my life, I had no friends. Not because I was a social outcast, but because I didn't even SEE anybody regularly enough. But, nonetheless, I knew people. You generally do if you get involved in the community.

Ban homeschooling because it breaks and utterly destroys everyone who goes through it.

Everyone.

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

Minnesota’s Giant Rainbow and Leather Pride Flags

But good news! We replaced…with an even larger one!

The flag now measures over 100ft long and 70+ft wide! To my knowledge, it is the largest leather Pride flag in North America, and possibly the world!

I wanted to provide a little plug for Minnesota Leather Pride, the organization that provides support to all the local leather groups in Minnesota.

They have a store! You can purchase their annual dog tag, a collector’s item and piece of history that honors the place, people, and progeny of the Minnesota leather scene. If you come to an MNLP event, you can purchase pieces of our historic leather pride flag, which have been made into buttons and pins!

MNLP also has a community calendar, which every leather group submits events to. You can find BLUF, rubber, M/s, men’s groups, dyke groups (like mine!!), and more! If there is a leather or leather-adjacent group in Minnesota you’re interested in, MNLP will have it for you!

Minnesota Leather Pride is entirely community run, not for profit, and focused on uplifting the groups and clubs in Minnesota! Check us out below:

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