i cant wait to blog....

I have been gone for a while but I thought boyboy tumblr would enjoy this.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been."

it’s not just kink

it’s not just an aesthetic

it’s not just a party at a bar you show up to once a month

leather is a distinct culture & it’s highly community based

if you aren’t showing in solidarity for our local Onyx chapter or our bootblack guild, learning our history and talking to our elders, talking to the leather folks who are different from you, or showing any interest in engaging in community outside wearing your doc martens & amazon dot com bulldog harness to a bar to play pool (with the friends you came with), sorry babes but that’s not leather!!

don’t show up to our space and be disrespectful to fat butches, trans women, and bipoc leather folks. I can see when you are only talking to other skinny white people.

don’t show up to our space and side eye the leathermen at the leatherdyke event who have been allies to us, even when we weren’t in the room. we personally invited them, you just saw a flyer on the internet.

don’t show up to our space if you don’t want to learn and do the work outside the bar. it’s not cute to be incurious about the community whose event you are entering.

we vet for a reason, we are watching the new folks.

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt