#leatherperson

[imsbb2018]

.@allyouneedisash worked at the #bootblack stands at #dorealley2022 for the first time this year, and enjoyed this #cigar after the shift. Illford HP5 pushed to 800. Shot on a @hasselblad H1 with the 80mm f2.8 #thisisdorealley #thisisfolsomstreet #thisisfolsom #leather #leatherperson #bootblacking #cigars #leatherfetish #cigarfetish #hasselblad #hasselbladh1 #h1 #illford #illfordhp5 #hp5 (at Up Your Alley, Dore at Folsom.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgyMM3JuUTU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jackaldandy]

Seriously, Internet needs to be less “a reminder for y’all that X question” or “y’all would say this, but...” and more as a self reflective “this is the story of how I went from thinking that to realizing and living this”. An example from a personal source: in my early 20's I went from being a moralistic prude feminist to an enthusiastic pervert and a S&M Leatherperson. A bit like this:

https://lids-flutter-open.tumblr.com/post/187790550677/secret-lois-backstory-unlocked-in-unnatural-dykes

(The backstory of Lois en Alison Bechdel's Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For (1995)

I'm committed to share with others my personal experience of growth and learning. But within and betweenscreens right now, there is little place to for human processes of change, inner deplacements, stories of personal transformation and learning. I think we all (and not just a holier than thou vs y’all) need to be more humble about it and start to talk about the way we started to learn, the way we keep on learning, specially in a current world we’re everything is played on automatically premade discoursive and performative realms, so the individuals are already made - and ready to play- as hungry brands of themselves, desperate for being on “the right side of things”, and there’s no space for inarticulable experiences or those that can’t be articulated yet, there’s no place for duration (the temporal foundation for every subjective and social process), for being on the making while feeling and sensing and doubting... Processes need time and humility in an age of actualizations and disposability... as a trans person, I believe in leaps of faith and transformation, in counteracting absolutism, and at this rate, detaching ourselves from the possibility of learning, enclosing ourselves to the oppression of rigidity, is gonna be one of the saddest losses we’re gonna have to face.

[gearinsitu]

Here's the current state of the Leatherman collection. Not shown are any of the sheaths, obviously. Collector No. 50 What do you call them Leathermen? Leathermans? Leatherpersons? Whatever... Here is my collection of Leatherman Tools. Leatherman was my first EDC love. I've always loved tinkering and Leatherman is the tinker master. Whatcha think? Can you ID them all? On my wish list are the Klamath, Leap, KF4, the charge in CF and Wood, as well as some Damascus blades. Those beautiful colours of Skeletools. #Leatherman #leathermancollection #myleathercollection #leathermantools #leathermancollectorsclub #skeletool #leathermanchargetti #skeletoolrx #leathermansquirt #leathermanraptor #leathermanmicra #leathermancharge #leathermanfree #leathermanmut #leathermanwave #leathermansurge #Leathermanpst #leathermanrebar #leathermanbond #leathermanminitool #leathermanoht #leathermansignal #leathermansupertool300 #leathermantread @leathermancanada @leathermantools @leatherman_charge_fan @leatherman_collectors_club @leathermantools_fan @leathermanedc @leathermanuk @leathermanindonesia @leathermanrussia @leatherman (at Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaC6E2NOlCW/?utm_medium=tumblr

[secretdoorprojects]

1) a functional, but untenable state of affairs..... #leatherperson 2) look at these tiny, imprecisely cast screws (that pulled out of their holes in the lid of the pepper grinder) .... 3) new holes drilled, all fixed! the only embarrassing thing is that this repair took me two weeks to finally do... so it goes. at least it's done now!

[leatherbeacon-blog]

Leather Series - Spaces for Women and "the other" - Part 1

Let me tell you a story of a person of color walking into a leather bar full of leathermen. They look around the room and see a bunch of white, cis gay men in leather. While they are turned on by the leather and kink on display, they don't see anything close to representing who they are. They aren't seeing people of color, they aren't seeing women, they aren't seeing trans folk or femme folk. They look around and don't see themselves. They don't see a space for them. They look on stage and hear a leatherman giving a speech about honor, integrity, respect, finding a home, a tribe, a community. They are hearing that leatherman talking about a tribe and community of only white cis gay men. So that person walks out of the bar, never to return again. Now imagine that same person walking into a leather bar and seeing a bar full of men, women, Asian, black, Latino, Middle Eastern, indigenous, cis, trans, Bi, pan, femme folk, all in leather, all having a kinky fun time. Then that person sees a leatherperson on stage giving a speech about tribe and community, about finding a home. That person who walked into the bar is nodding along because they can look around the room and see themselves reflected in the faces of every leatherperson in the bar. So that person stays in the bar because they are home. The leather community from its formation was a community for white men. Plain and simple. Vanilla bars and leather bars prohibited men of color from even gaining entrance to the bars, let alone having a voice in the community. Over the years, men of color have gained access and our voices have been heard. But let's not be naïve and think that racism, prejudice and ignorance has passed or been removed from the leather community. Let's not pretend that gay men can't be just as misogynistic as straight men, if not more. We look at the very community who stood by our deathbeds during the AIDS crisis and say to their faces "you are not welcome in our bars, events, spaces". Where is the honor, integrity and respect in that? Is that our code as leathermen? What's even worse is when we do "let" them into our events, we then restrict their access to the events. We'll say "you can come to our event and pay the same registration fee, but you won't be able to attend all the workshops, you won't be able to attend the pool party and oh the seven play spaces we have? You can't play in any of them." Profiting off of a community without giving them access or even one small fucking room to use as a play space is wrong. There is no honor in that. There is no integrity. There is no respect. The excuse men use for excluding them is that women don't understand our history because they weren't there at the beginning. Yes, Leather started with gay men, white cis gay men. The only reason any other people group besides white cis gay men may not have the same understanding of Leather, isn't because of inability or capacity, it's because the leather community was exclusionary from its inception. You can't say "such and such people group doesn't know our history" when they were explicitly excluded from your history. Are we so desperate to hold onto supposed "old guard" values that may or may not have existed that we will go out of our way to refuse space to women, femmes, trans, or any form of "other?" What are we afraid of? Are we afraid that adding seats to the table will remove yours? Are we so afraid of vaginas or femme presentation that somehow we will no longer be attracted to men? Do women have that much power of you? Do you forget how to use a flogger in the presence of a woman? Can your hand no longer grip to jerk off a guys cock? How fragile is your sexuality/leather/kink that the presence of a woman at a play space will render you incapable of engaging in a scene with another man? Ok stop, I can see you furiously typing away "but Beacon, does that mean every single time I want to have some guy friends over and play that I have to have women there too?!" Individual, private parties are just that, private. What you do is up to you. If you want it male only, that's cool. If women want a women only party, that's cool. But if you are throwing a large leather event with multiple play spaces and the event is open to men, women, GNC, then you better have play spaces for men, women and GNC. If you are going to profit off of a people group, you need to have space for that people group. It's really that simple. There is a lot of discussion about spaces for "the other" I'm not sure if this is a new discussion or if I'm just now listening. Creating spaces for "the other" doesn't diminish or eliminate the spaces that already exist. It adds to them. It adds people to the leather community. It adds different perspectives and experiences and ways to engage in kink. It makes the community better. Creating spaces for women, minorities, trans folk, GNC and femme folk is what makes the leather community greater than it once was. We don't need to go back, we need to go forward together.

[tramplee]

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[gearinsitu]

Leathermen? Leathermans? Leatherpersons? Whatever... My collection of Leatherman Tools. Leatherman was my first EDC love. I've always loved tinkering and Leatherman is the tinker master. Whatcha think? Can you ID them all? #Leatherman #leathermancollection #myleathercollection #leathermantools #leathermancollectorsclub #skeletool #leathermanchargetti #skeletoolrx #leathermansquirt #leathermanraptor #leathermanmicra #leathermancharge #leathermanfree #leathermanmut #leathermanwave #leathermansurge #Leathermanpst #leathermanrebar #leathermanbond #leathermanminitool #leathermanoht #leathermansignal #leathermansupertool300 #leathermantread @leathermancanada @leathermantools @leatherman_charge_fan @leatherman_collectors_club @leathermantools_fan @leathermanedc @leathermanuk @leathermanindonesia @leathermanrussia @leatherman (at Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ1OfYiMEDW/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tramplee]

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