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context: this article covers most of it.
personal reactions:
* frustrated take: leather has always been and specifically naziexploitation-by-marginalized-creators/uniform kink/taboo fetishes in its roots. you can't separate that from the name or it immediately becomes something hideously, painfully toothless that's an absolute reversal of everything its affiliates have fought for. watch the tom of finland bioptic. read classic leather literature by authors like patrick califta, etc. better people than i have already gone over how complex and nuanced and sometimes tough-to-deal-with these topics are, from an amazing spectrum of people from all walks of life and experiences.
* nuanced-better?-faith-take: organizations don't really do this kind of thing unless if there's multiple reasons at stake. maybe everyone knows information that's not being surfaced (eg, Dehner being an consistent irl ass/physically abusive/embezzlin' funds or boring financial shit) and this is just the least-friction-kind-of-way of separating him from the community at large that's the quickest for the public to swallow.
* cynical take: ... though it sure doesn't sound like it from the way the article framed it, if that's the absolute worst that anyone could surface on him for that long, and he's that apologetic. i personally squint at everyone involved because basically every leather elder has played with uniform kink at some point. the organization's namesake's has entire artbooks of it. i get everyone's rightly on edge, but this ain't it chief.
* unkind take: queer communities really will immediately eject anyone for being the wrong kind of queer/a liability/ that threatens their precious image, huh. i though leather would have been the last bastion for this kind of thing, but I guess not.
* resigned-somewhat-knee-jerk take: yeah i'm done with ""communities"", if i wasn't already feeling that way for a long while. only people i give a shit about in this context is fellow ero-taboo creatives like the nazine circle at this point.
... anyway this kind of thing is why i'm not comfortable giving myself any labels online these days or joining/promoting/etc public groups. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
edit: sent a (hopefully thoughtful) email to the organization from my perspective. this bothers me!
personal reactions:
* frustrated take: leather has always been and specifically naziexploitation-by-marginalized-creators/uniform kink/taboo fetishes in its roots. you can't separate that from the name or it immediately becomes something hideously, painfully toothless that's an absolute reversal of everything its affiliates have fought for. watch the tom of finland bioptic. read classic leather literature by authors like patrick califta, etc. better people than i have already gone over how complex and nuanced and sometimes tough-to-deal-with these topics are, from an amazing spectrum of people from all walks of life and experiences.
* nuanced-better?-faith-take: organizations don't really do this kind of thing unless if there's multiple reasons at stake. maybe everyone knows information that's not being surfaced (eg, Dehner being an consistent irl ass/physically abusive/embezzlin' funds or boring financial shit) and this is just the least-friction-kind-of-way of separating him from the community at large that's the quickest for the public to swallow.
* cynical take: ... though it sure doesn't sound like it from the way the article framed it, if that's the absolute worst that anyone could surface on him for that long, and he's that apologetic. i personally squint at everyone involved because basically every leather elder has played with uniform kink at some point. the organization's namesake's has entire artbooks of it. i get everyone's rightly on edge, but this ain't it chief.
* unkind take: queer communities really will immediately eject anyone for being the wrong kind of queer/a liability/ that threatens their precious image, huh. i though leather would have been the last bastion for this kind of thing, but I guess not.
* resigned-somewhat-knee-jerk take: yeah i'm done with ""communities"", if i wasn't already feeling that way for a long while. only people i give a shit about in this context is fellow ero-taboo creatives like the nazine circle at this point.
... anyway this kind of thing is why i'm not comfortable giving myself any labels online these days or joining/promoting/etc public groups. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
edit: sent a (hopefully thoughtful) email to the organization from my perspective. this bothers me!