[Tsa] Re: [CLPP Students] BDSM Race Play Focus Groups

[Cap'n JackJack]

Hey, I'd be down. I have some background, but not much, in race play and BDSM
politics/theory.
---J

Quoting Julian Padilla <jp04 at hampshire.edu>:

> Hello queer, poc, and gender-based communities,
> My name is Julian Padilla and i'm a Div 3. I am studying queer and
> psychoanalytic perspectives of Daddy/son role-playing (inquire and i
> will explicate).
> Part of my Div 3 though, is a process. I will be holding a Hampshire
> Community Dialogue on BDSM Race Play.
> Before i do that i am doing a literature review, and holding two
> focus groups:
> one for students of color and one for white (anti-racist) allies
> students to generate questions for the larger Dialogue.
>
> WHAT IS BDSM RACE PLAY?
>
> BDSM is an acronym that refers to Bondage/Discipline, Domination/
> Submission, and Sadism/Masochism, a form of consensual sex that
> involves sexy humiliation, restraint, servitude, pain, and
> imagination. Expressions range from getting a spanking to being
> whipped by a dominatrix, and far far beyond.
>
> Race Play is a highly controversial form of BDSM in which racially
> charged dialogue and scenarios are employed to achieve pleasure. This
> can take the form of a role play in which a white "cop" coerces a
> brown "convict" into having prison sex, or black "thugs" take
> advantage of an "innocent" asian man. Like all role-playing that
> takes place within BDSM communities, roles are chosen and desired.
> That is to say, yes - there are people of color who like to be
> dominated and called racial slurs in planned sex.
>
> This is obviously a loaded subject which raises provocative
> questions. These questions are being raised all over the country and
> i would like to raise them at Hampshire. I am seeking a dialogue and
> not an answer as to whether or not this is an acceptable practice.
>
> I'M LOOKING FOR 5-8 POC AND 5-8 WHITE STUDENTS INTERESTED IN
> DISCUSSING THE INTERSECTIONS OF SEXUALITY, RACE, GENDER, CLASS,
> ABILITY, AGE, AND POWER IN BDSM RACE PLAY FOR ABOUT AN HOUR.
>
> no previous knowledge of BDSM or race play necessary, though you must
> be comfortable discussing race/gender/sex.
>
> focus group meeting times will be contingent on participants'
> schedules but will take place before Spring Break.
> please contact me if you are interested or have questions.
> love love love
> jp04 at hampshire.edu
>
> ps. here is a link to an excellent article about race play published
> in Color Lines magazine: http://www.alternet.org/rights/20656
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