COMPILED BY Feminista Jones.ILLUSTRATIONS with Ada Buchholc
I’m a black woman that is american and I also identify as a “slave.” Yes, the term is fraught with shameful history, nonetheless it has another meaning one that’s sexual and freeing, rather than oppressive and managing. Being a longtime practitioner of bdsm (bondage, control, camsloveaholics.com/runetki-review dominance and distribution), we see slaves as individuals who willingly surrender control with their partner or “master.” Being a descendant of African Americans whom were legitimately enslaved for hundreds of years, nonetheless, the expressed term additionally conjures up violent pictures of my ancestors’ pain and suffering. These two definitions clashed in my mind, so I denied being a slave for 18 years. Nevertheless now, at 36, I’ve finally embraced it. The impulse to provide myself totally to some other individual is simply too overpowering to resist.