CS 137: Race Play, Racialized BDSM (Prologue to Slave Play discussion) (12/13/2018) (Patreon)

Based on some articles coming about about the Off-Broadway play “Slave Play” at the time we recorded this, Kenny and I were talking about a topic that seems to keep coming up among black and white liberals, racialized BDSM.

Mentioned in this episode:

• “I Do See Color: Shedding Light on Race Play” https://altsexnycconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Stephanie-Lykes-22I-Do-See-Color22-Shedding-Light-on-Race-Play.pdf
• “Racism or Race Play: A Conceptual Investigation of the Race Play Debates” http://zapruderworld.org/journal/archive/volume-4/racism-or-race-play-a-conceptual-investigation-of-the-race-play-debates/
• “A Black Male Porn Star Is Suing After His White Female Costar Called Him The N-Word During Filming” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/black-male-porn-star-sue-white-female-n-word-moe-monster; See also “The Rise of Racist Porn” https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rise-of-racist-porn
• On Ghetto Gaggers and Black Thug genres of stereotypical interracial porn: “The Racist Side of the Nation’s Largest Industry: Ghetto Gaggers.” http://livingcivil.com/the-racist-side-of-the-nations-largest-industry-ghetto-gaggers/ ; also “Porn: Our colour blind spot when it comes to racism” https://mediadiversified.org/2016/04/20/porn-our-colour-blind-spot-when-it-comes-to-racism/; The Problem With Race in the Porn Industry http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/07/25/the-problem-with-race-in-the-porn-industry/
• “Why I Hated Hamilton” episode of Champagne Sharks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlwu1yUpJvI
• An example of a search for “Swirl” romance novels on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bwwm+romance; Also Plantation Erotica https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=plantation+erotica&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aplantation+erotica
• “A Composer and His Wife” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/arts/music/a-composer-and-his-wife-creativity-through-kink.html; Also, Chauncey DeVega’s podcast interview with The Perverted Negress, Mollena Williams-Haas. A 5-part interview with Willams-Haas http://www.mollena.com/2009/04/race-play-interview-part-1/
• “Meet The Dominatrix Who Requires The Men Who Hire Her To Read Black Feminist Theory” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mistress-velvet_us_5a822b50e4b00ecc923d4eba; “Mistress Velvet: The African Dominatrix on Queer Sex Work, Finding Your Niche, and Cis White Slaves” http://slutist.com/mistress-velvet-the-african-dominatrix-on-queer-sex-work-finding-your-niche-and-cis-white-slaves/