Panel Idea time for WisCon: Kink Bingo / Being Politically Sex Positive

[sasha_feather]

j00j and I are doing idea generation for a proposed WisCon panel on kink. Please comment! We need to come up with a description, and possibly suggest people for the panel and things to discuss.

Being politically sex positive: Kink Bingo, Fandom, and understanding Kink through fiction

Points to indclude:
kink is a lens through which you can see the world
it can be an oppressed identity
No kink-bashing, everyone's kink is OK, kink as an umbrella that includes infinite things
define terms: squick, BDSM, others
Intersectionality

ETA: Thank you for leaving comments; I may not respond to all comments. This panel is being planned partly in response to a disappointing panel at Think Galacticon entitled "Dangerous Sexuality".

Comments

[j00j]

Yeah, if the discussion were "John Ringo wrote about his personal kinks and that's gross," or "John Ringo's kinks are gross," that would be problematic (mind you, I wouldn't be surprised if that had come up at some point; I haven't read the OH JOHN RINGO NO post recently, so I can't recall if it does there). I think we can critique problematic tropes in John Ringo's work (or Stephanie Meyer's or Anne Bishop's or Mercedes Lackey's, to come up with a few writers who may be writing some personal kinks into narratives which contain some problematic tropes) without criticizing personal kinks. Sometimes it is hard for commenters not do do this, or for writers not to view criticism as criticism of their personal kinks, though.