some kinda deer/coyote dyke

Leather as ancestry and heritage in queerness

Leather as spirituality, pain and pleasure and transcendence

Leather as community

Leather as animalness

Leather as holiness

Leather as communion with our Ancestors

Leather as written in blood and death

Leather as written in love and joy

Leather as written in dirt and lube

Leather as "Don't forget where you come from"

Leather as "Remember where you're going"

Leather as poetry in pain and power

Leather as reclamation

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycteris naso

It is found from southern Mexico to Belize, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil, as well as in Trinidad. The bats are nocturnal, sleeping during the day in an unusual formation: most of them line up, one after another, on a branch or wooden beam, nose to tail, in a straight row.

In the photo, the two bats on the lower left are carrying young.

A dad in america

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: